Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-07-28
Proc. 16th Europ. Cosmic Ray Symp. (Alcala de Henares), ed. J.Medina, p. 279-282 (1998)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages including 6 ps-figures, latex2e, uses epsfig.sty, times.sty. To appear in: Proc. of 16th European Cosmic Ray Symposium
Scientific paper
An extensive program for the calculation of galactic cosmic-ray propagation has been developed. Primary and secondary nucleons, primary and secondary electrons, secondary positrons and antiprotons are included. Fragmentation and energy losses are computed using realistic distributions for the interstellar gas and radiation fields. Models with diffusion and convection only do not account naturally for the observed energy dependence of B/C, while models with reacceleration reproduce this easily. The height of the halo propagation region is determined, using recent 10Be/9Be measurements, as greater than 4 kpc. The radial distribution of cosmic-ray sources required is broader than current estimates of the SNR distribution for all halo sizes. Our results include an estimate of cosmic-ray antiproton and positron spectra, and the Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission (see accompanying paper: Moskalenko 1998b).
Moskalenko Igor V.
Strong Andrew W.
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