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2019MNRAS.485.3869S - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 485, 3869-3875 (2019/May-3)

Origin of cosmic ray electrons and positrons.

SHI Z.-D. and LIU S.

Abstract (from CDS):

With experimental results of AMS on the spectra of cosmic ray (CR) e–, e+, e– + e+ and positron fraction, as well as new measurements of CR e– + e+ flux by HESS, one can better understand the CR lepton (e– and e+) spectra and the puzzling electron-positron excess above ∼10 GeV. In this article, spectra of CR e– and e+ are fitted with a physically motivated simple model, and their injection spectra are obtained with a 1D propagation model including the diffusion and energy loss processes. Our results show that the electron-positron excess can be attributed to uniformly distributed sources that continuously inject into the galactic disc electron-positron with a power-law spectrum cutting off near 1 TeV and a triple power-law model is needed to fit the primary CR electron spectrum. The lower energy spectral break can be attributed to propagation effects giving rise to a broken power-law injection spectrum of primary CR electrons with a spectral hardening above ∼40 GeV.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): diffusion - cosmic rays - supernova remnants - pulsars: general

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