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We use the GALPROP code for cosmic-ray (CR) propagation to calculate the broad-band luminosity spectrum of the Milky Way related to CR propagation and interactions in the interstellar medium. This includes gamma-ray emission from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-01 A. W. Strong , T. A. Porter , S. W. Digel , G. Johannesson , P. Martin , I. V. Moskalenko , E. J. Murphy

We present a novel interpretation of the $\gamma$-ray diffuse emission measured by Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. in the Galactic center (GC) region and the Galactic ridge (GR). In the first part we perform a data-driven analysis based on PASS8…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 D. Gaggero , D. Grasso , A. Marinelli , M. Taoso , A. Urbano

Low-frequency radio observations of diffuse synchrotron radiation offer a unique vantage point for investigating the intricate relationship between gas and magnetic fields in the formation of structures within the Galaxy, spanning from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-29 Andrea Bracco , Marco Padovani , Daniele Galli

Cosmic rays travel throughout the Galaxy, leaving traces from radio to ultra-high-energy gamma rays due to interactions with the interstellar gas, radiation field and magnetic field. Therefore, it is necessary to utilize multi-wavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Xin-Yu He , Pei-Pei Zhang , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Qing Guo

The antiparticle energy spectra of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) have several exciting features such as the unexpected positron excess at $E\sim$10-200\,GeV and the remarkably hard antiproton flux at $E\sim$\,60--450\,GeV recently measured by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-31 Jie Feng , Nicola Tomassetti , Alberto Oliva

Understanding the isotopic composition of cosmic rays (CRs) observed near Earth represents a milestone towards the identification of their origin. Local fluxes contain all the known stable and long-lived isotopes, reflecting the complex…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 Carmelo Evoli , Daniele Gaggero , Andrea Vittino , Mattia Di Mauro , Dario Grasso , Mario Nicola Mazziotta

Recent direct measurements of Galactic cosmic ray spectra by balloon/space-borne detectors reveal spectral hardenings of all major nucleus species at rigidities of a few hundred GV. The all-sky diffuse gamma-ray emissions measured by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Yi-Qing Guo , Qiang Yuan

We use the GALPROP code and the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) data to derive the cosmic ray (CR) isotopic composition at the sources. The composition is derived for two propagation models, diffusive reacceleration and plain diffusion.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-25 Igor V. Moskalenko , Andrew W. Strong , Troy A. Porter

The secondary/primary cosmic-ray ratios and the diffuse backgrounds of gamma rays and neutrinos provide us with complementary information about the transport of Galactic cosmic rays~(CRs). We used the recent measurement of the diffuse gamma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-13 Antonio Ambrosone , Carmelo Evoli , Benedikt Schroer , Pasquale Blasi

Ever since the discovery of Cosmic Rays (CRs), significant advancements have been made in modeling their propagation in the Galaxy and in the Heliosphere. However, propagation models suffer from degeneracy of many parameters. To complicate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-19 E. Orlando

The Galactic cosmic-ray propagation code GALPROP is designed to make predictions of many kinds of data self-consistently, including direct cosmic-ray measurements, gamma rays and synchrotron radiation. In the decade since its conception it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-06 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , T. A. Porter , G. Jóhannesson , E. Orlando , S. W. Digel

This work presents preliminary results for the time-dependent cosmic-ray propagation in the Galaxy by a fully 3-dimensional Monte Carlo simulation. The distribution of cosmic-rays (both protons and helium nuclei) in the Galaxy is studied on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-05 C. -Y. Huang , M. Pohl

Recent advances in gamma-ray cosmic ray, infrared and radio astronomy have allowed us to develop a significantly better understanding of the galactic medium properties in the last few years. In this work using the DRAGON code, that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Maryam Tavakoli , Ilias Cholis , Carmelo Evoli , Piero Ullio

Recent observations of cosmic rays (CRs) have revealed a two-component anomaly in the spectra of primary and secondary particles, as well as their ratios, prompting investigation into their common origin. In this study, we incorporate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-08 Yu-Hua Yao , Xu-Lin Dong , Yi-Qing Guo , Qiang Yuan

Observations of diffuse Galactic gamma-ray spectrum by the EGRET instrument reveal an excess above ~ 1 GeV over the expected gamma-ray spectrum calculated under the assumption that the locally observed cosmic-ray (CR) spectra represent the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Thoudam Satyendra

A fundamental problem of cosmic ray (CR) physics is the determination of the average properties of Galactic CRs outside the Solar system. Starting from COS-B data in the 1980's, gamma-ray observations of molecular clouds in the Gould Belt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Kachelriess , S. Ostapchenko

We present a study of the compatibility of some current models of the diffuse Galactic continuum gamma rays with EGRET data. A set of regions sampling the whole sky is chosen to provide a comprehensive range of tests. The range of EGRET…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

The AMS Collaboration has recently released precision data on cosmic ray (CR) leptons and protons at high energies. Interesting progresses have also been made on the measurement of CR nuclei, such as the boron-to-carbon ratio or the lithium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-02 Nicola Tomassetti

Recent measurements of the cosmic ray (CR) antiproton flux have been shown to challenge existing CR propagation models. It was shown that the reacceleration models designed to match secondary to primary nuclei ratios (e.g., B/C) produce too…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-27 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong , J. F. Ormes , S. G. Mashnik

Observations of the Galactic Center (GC) region in very-high-energy (VHE, >100 GeV) gamma rays, conducted with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), led to the detection of an extended region of diffuse gamma-ray emission in 2006.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-15 Alexander Ziegler , Christopher van Eldik