The transition from galactic to extragalactic cosmic rays
arXiv:astro-ph/0611633 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2007.02.021
Abstract
We discuss the region of transition between galactic and extragalactic cosmic rays. The exact shapes and compositions of these two components contains information about important parameters of powerful astrophysical sources and the conditions in extragalactic space. Several types of experimental data, including the exact shape of the ultrahigh energy cosmic rays, their chemical composition and their anisotropy, and the fluxes of cosmogenic neutrinos have to be included in the solution of this problem.
6 pages, 3 figures, written in LaTeX, to be published in the Proceedings of the NOW 2006 workshop
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