Superbubbles, Wolf-Rayet stars, and the origin of galactic cosmic rays

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Oct 2006

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Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 47, Issue 1, pp. 68-77 (2006).

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The abundances of neon and several other isotopic ratios in the galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) have been measured using data from the Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer (CRIS) aboard the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE). We have derived the 22Ne/20Ne ratio at the cosmic-ray source using the measured 21Ne, 19F, and 17O abundances as ''tracers'' of secondary isotope production. Using this approach, the 22Ne/20Ne abundance ratio obtained for the cosmic-ray source is 0.387 ± 0.007 (stat.) ± 0.022 (syst.). This corresponds to an enhancement by a factor of 5.3±0.3 over the 22Ne/20Ne ratio in the solar wind. We compare our data for neon and refractory isotope ratios, and data from other experiments, with recent results from two-component Wolf- Rayet (WR) models. The three largest deviations of GCR isotope ratios from solarsystem ratios predicted by these models, 12C/16O, 22Ne/20Ne, and 58Fe/56Fe, are present in the GCRs. In fact, all of the isotope ratios that we have measured are consistent with a GCR source consisting of about 80% material with solar-system composition and about 20% of WR material. Since WR stars are evolutionary products of O and B stars, and most OB stars exist in OB associations that form superbubbles, the good agreement of these data with WR models suggests that superbubbles are the likely source of at least a substantial fraction of GCRs.

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