Galactic magnetic fields and the large-scale anisotropy at MILAGRO

Details Galactic magnetic fields and the large-scale anisotropy at MILAGRO Galactic magnetic fields and the large-scale anisotropy at MILAGRO

2009-07-16

arxiv.org/abs/0907.2889v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

12 pages, version to appear in ApJL

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The air-shower observatory Milagro has detected a large-scale anisotropy of unknown origin in the flux of TeV cosmic rays. We propose that this anisotropy is caused by galactic magnetic fields, in particular, that it results from the combined effects of the regular and the turbulent (fluctuating) magnetic fields in our vicinity. Instead of a diffusion equation, we integrate Boltzmann's equation to show that the turbulence may define a preferred direction in the cosmic-ray propagation that is orthogonal to the local regular magnetic field. The approximate dipole anisotropy that we obtain explains well Milagro's data.

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