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dc.contributor.author | Porter, T. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Protheroe, R. | - |
dc.date.issued | 1997 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 1997; 23(11):1765-1784 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0954-3899 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1361-6471 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2440/12601 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The bulk of the diffuse galactic gamma-ray emission above a few tens of GeV has been conventionally ascribed to the decay of neutral pions produced in cosmic-ray interactions with interstellar matter. Cosmic-ray electrons may, however, make a significant contribution to the gamma-ray spectrum at high energies, and even dominate at TeV-PeV energies depending on their injection spectral index and acceleration cut-off energy. If the injection spectrum is flat, the highest energy electrons will also contribute a diffuse hard x-ray/soft gamma-ray flux via synchrotron emission, and this may offer an explanation for the OSSE observation of a steep spectrum below a few MeV from the inner Galaxy. We perform a propagation calculation for cosmic-ray electrons, and use the resulting interstellar electron spectrum to obtain the gamma-ray spectrum due to inverse Compton, synchrotron and bremsstrahlung interactions consistently from MeV to PeV energies. We compare our results with available observations from satellite-borne telescopes, optical Čerenkov telescopes and air shower arrays and place constraints on the injection spectrum of cosmic-ray electrons. With future observations at TeV-PeV energies it should be possible to determine the average interstellar spectrum of cosmic-ray electrons, and hence estimate their spectrum on acceleration. | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | IOP PUBLISHING LTD | - |
dc.source.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/23/11/022 | - |
dc.title | Cosmic-ray electrons and the diffuse gamma-ray spectrum | - |
dc.type | Journal article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1088/0954-3899/23/11/022 | - |
pubs.publication-status | Published | - |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 Physics publications |
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