Gamma Rays from Molecular Clouds

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2000-12-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0012290v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The paper is based on presentations at 2 meetings of the workshop on "The Astrophysics of Galactic Cosmic Rays" hosted by the

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I discuss the spectral features of pi-0 decay gamma-radiation from clouds/targets located in proximity of relatively young proton accelerators, and speculate that such ``accelerator+target'' systems in our Galaxy can be responsible for a subset of unidentified EGRET sources. Also, I argue that the recent observations of high energy gamma-rays from the Orion complex contain evidence that the level of the ``sea'' of galactic cosmic rays may differ significantly from the flux and the spectrum of local (directly detected) particles.

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