A POSSIBLE APPROACH TO THREE-DIMENSIONAL COSMIC-RAY PROPAGATION IN THE GALAXY. IV. ELECTRONS AND ELECTRON-INDUCED {gamma}-RAYS
- Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama-Gakuin University, Kanagawa 252-5258 (Japan)
Based on the diffusion-halo model for cosmic-ray (CR) propagation, including stochastic reacceleration due to collisions with hydromagnetic turbulence, we study the behavior of the electron component and the diffuse {gamma}-rays (D{gamma}'s) induced by them. The galactic parameters appearing in these studies are essentially the same as those appearing in the hadronic CR components, while we additionally need information on the interstellar radiation field, taking into account dependences on both the photon energy, E{sub ph}, and the position, r. We compare our numerical results with the data on hadrons, electrons, and D{gamma}'s, including the most recent results from Fermi, which gives two remarkable results: (1) the electron spectrum falls with energy as E{sup -3}{sub e} up to 1 TeV, and does not exhibit prominent spectral features around 500 GeV, in contrast to the dramatic excess appearing in both ATIC and PPB-BETS spectra and (2) the EGRET GeV-excess in the D{gamma} spectrum is neither due to an astronomical origin (much harder CR spectrum in the galactic center) nor a cosmological one (dark matter annihilation or decay), but due to an instrumental problem. In the present paper, however, we focus our interest rather conservatively upon the internal relation between these three components, using common galactic parameters. We find that they are in reasonable harmony with each other within both the theoretical and experimental uncertainties, apart from the electron-anomaly problem, while some enhancement of D{gamma}'s appears in the high galactic latitude with |b|>60{sup 0} in the GeV region.
- OSTI ID:
- 21567592
- Journal Information:
- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 727, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/727/1/38; ISSN 0004-637X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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