A celestial gamma-ray foreground due to the albedo of small solar system bodies and a remote probe of the interstellar-cosmic-ray spectrum

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 681, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1708-1716

  Moskalenko, Igor V ^a,e   Porter, Troy A ^b   Digel, Seth W ^c,e   Michelson, Peter F ^a,e   Ormes, Jonathan F ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic rays; Elementary particles; Galaxy: bulge; Gamma rays: theory; Kuiper Belt; Minor planets, asteroids

Indexed keywords

EID: 53549130251     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588425     Document Type: Article

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