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The Influence of Extended Source Distributions on Cosmic ray Spectral Index Variations in the Galactic Wind Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

M. Pohl*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Auf dem Hügel 69, 5300 Bonn, FRG

Abstract

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The solution of the steady-state transport equation describing the propagation of relativistic electrons perpendicular to the galactic plane in a galactic wind is discussed for extended source distributions. The wind velocity is assumed to be zero in the plane and to increase with galactic height. The electrons undergo simultaneously diffusion, convection, adiabatic deceleration, radiative losses and injection. We contrast the resulting spectra with those derived for an infinitely thin source distribution and discuss the dependence of the variation of the spectral index inside the source distribution on the form of this distribution in any transport model. Apart from a new region at very small energies the asymptotic spectra agree with those of the line-source model (LS). Inside the source distribution the spectral index break is doubled from δγlin =0.5 to δγext=1.0.

Type
III. Theory and Modelling
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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