Galactic Centre as an efficient source of cosmic rays

Abstract

After the discovery of Fermi Bubbles and the excess of gamma-ray emission, the Galactic Centre has received increasing attention with the aim to understand its role in the origin and acceleration of primary cosmic rays (CRs). Based on a diffusion/re-acceleration model, we use the GALPROP software to solve the diffusion equation for the cosmic rays and compare the results with the CRs spectrum, motivated by relationship between several energetic sources at the Galactic Centre and the generated diffuse GeV-TeV gamma-rays. We calculate the cosmic ray distribution, gamma-ray flux from Galactic Centre and explore its contribution on the spectrum and chemical composition of cosmic rays observed at Earth. We also discuss the effects of nuclei interactions with different interstellar gas models.

11 pages, 6 figures

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