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The gamma-ray background: a consequence of metagalactic cosmic ray origin?

A W Strong, J Wdowczyk and A W Wolfendale

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An estimate is made of the gamma -ray spectrum resulting from an extragalactic, evolving source model of cosmic ray origin in the absence of intergalactic gas. The experimental situation does not at present appear to allow definite rejection of this theory, since the calculated spectrum lies between the extreme observational limits. It is possible that such a theory can explain the cosmic ray spectrum, the isotropy of cosmic rays and the diffuse gamma -ray spectrum.


PACS

98.70.Sa Cosmic rays (including sources, origin, acceleration, and interactions)

98.62.Ra Intergalactic matter; quasar absorption and emission-line systems; Lyman forest

96.50.sb Composition, energy spectra and interactions

MSC

85A15 Galactic and stellar structure

Subjects

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 1 (1 January 1974)



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