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Some Aspects of Galactic Cosmic Ray Acceleration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Yousaf Mahmood Butt
Yousaf Mahmood Butt*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA, USA

Abstract

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I give a synopsis of two aspects of the Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) acceleration problem: the importance of the medium energy gamma-ray window, and several specific astrophysical sources which merit further investigation. NOTE: figures may be found in the on-line version only: astro-ph/0309758.

Type
I. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 13 , 2005 , pp. 24 - 29
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2005

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