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arXiv:astro-ph/0402243 (astro-ph)
[Submitted on 10 Feb 2004]

Title:Diffuse Gamma Rays: Galactic and Extragalactic Diffuse Emission

Authors:I. V. Moskalenko (NASA/GSFC), A. W. Strong (MPE, Garching), O. Reimer (ITP, Bochum)
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Abstract: "Diffuse" gamma rays consist of several components: truly diffuse emission from the interstellar medium, the extragalactic background, whose origin is not firmly established yet, and the contribution from unresolved and faint Galactic point sources. One approach to unravel these components is to study the diffuse emission from the interstellar medium, which traces the interactions of high energy particles with interstellar gas and radiation fields. Because of its origin such emission is potentially able to reveal much about the sources and propagation of cosmic rays. The extragalactic background, if reliably determined, can be used in cosmological and blazar studies. Studying the derived "average" spectrum of faint Galactic sources may be able to give a clue to the nature of the emitting objects.
Comments: 32 pages, 28 figures, this http URL. Chapter to the book "Cosmic Gamma-Ray Sources," to be published by Kluwer ASSL Series, Edited by K. S. Cheng and G. E. Romero. More details can be found at this http URL
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:astro-ph/0402243
  (or arXiv:astro-ph/0402243v1 for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0402243
Journal reference: in a book "Cosmic Gamma-Ray Sources," eds. K.S. Cheng & G.E. Romero (Dordrecht: Kluwer), Astrophysics and Space Science Library v.304, Chapter 12, pp.279-310 (2004)
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2256-2_12

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From: Igor Moskalenko [view email]
[v1] Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:02:55 UTC (633 KB)
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