Cosmic rays in the Magellanic clouds

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Oct 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996jphg...22.1507a&link_type=abstract

Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Volume 22, Issue 10, pp. 1507-1515 (1996).

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EGRET data from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory have been used to determine the flux of gamma rays from the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). When compared with data at other wavelengths it is found that the parents of the gamma rays, the initiating cosmic rays (CRs), are concentrated much more strongly than is the case for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). A consequence is that unless a single discrete gamma-ray source is responsible, the efficiency of CR production and/or trapping in the SMC is higher than would have been expected on the basis of the LMC results; there is also a hint that the SMC may be relatively richer in CR protons than the LMC.

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