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Oct 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aipc..587..469b&link_type=abstract
GAMMA 2001: Gamma-Ray Astrophysics 2001. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 587, pp. 469-473 (2001).
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Supernova Remnants, Planetary Bow Shocks, Interplanetary Shocks, Neutrino, Muon, Pion, And Other Elementary Particles, Cosmic Rays, Particle Acceleration, Gamma-Ray, Relativistic Stars: Structure, Stability, And Oscillations, Cosmic Rays
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Particle acceleration at supernova remnant (SNR) shock waves is regarded as the most probable mechanism for providing Galactic cosmic rays at energies below 1015 eV. The Galactic cosmic ray hadron component would in this picture result from the injection of relativistic particles from many SNRs. It is well known that the superposition of individual power law source spectra with dispersion in the spectral index value, which behavior is observed in the synchrotron radio spectra of shell SNR, displays a positive curvature in the total spectrum and in particular shows a hardening at higher energies. Recent observations made with the EGRET instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory of the diffuse Galactic γ-ray emission reveal a spectrum which is incompatible with the assumption that the cosmic ray spectra measured locally hold throughout the Galaxy: the spectrum above 1 GeV, where the emission is supposedly dominated by π0-decay, is harder than that derived from the local cosmic ray proton spectrum. We demonstrate that in case of a SNR origin of cosmic ray nucleons part of this γ-ray excess may be attributed to the dispersion of the spectral indices in these objects. .
Büsching Ingo
Pohl Martin
Schlickeiser Reinhard
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