The observation of intense gamma-ray line emission from the Orion complex, attributed by Bloemen et al. to de-excitation of cosmic-ray carbon and oxygen nuclei, has important implications for emission from Orion in the infrared and in high-energy gamma-rays, and also for the theories of cosmic-ray origins. Some of these implications are briefly pointed out.
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Cowsik et al. (1995) studied this question.