Diffuse galactic gamma rays from shock-accelerated cosmic rays

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Dermer, Charles D ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSE GALACTIC GAMMA RAYS; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; GALACTIC HALO; LARGE AREA TELESCOPES; MOLECULAR CLOUDS; NONRELATIVISTIC; NUCLEAR PRODUCTION; PARTICLE FLUXES; PARTICLE MOMENTUM; PROTON FLUX;

CLOUDS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; GAMMA RAYS; PROTONS;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 84865612778     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.091101     Document Type: Article

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