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September 24, 20250 citationsOpen Access

The cosmic-ray sea explains the diffuse Galactic gamma-ray and neutrino emission from GeV to PeV

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DGDario GrassoPLPedro De la Torre LuqueDGDaniele Gaggero

Key Points

  • LHAASO measurements confirm that cosmic rays are sufficient to explain observed gamma-ray emissions.
  • Comparisons to density predictions show good agreement with cosmic rays' spectral shape from existing models.
  • Models accounting for spatially dependent cosmic ray transport fit LHAASO results better than conventional models.
  • The findings support that no additional sources are necessary beyond the cosmic ray population to explain the emissions.

Abstract

The LHAASO collaboration has recently released the spectrum and the angular distribution of the gamma-ray Galactic diffuse emission from 1 TeV to 1 PeV measured with the Kilometer-2 Array (KM2A) and the Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA). We show that those data are in remarkably good agreement with a set of pre-existing models that assume the emission to be produced by the Galactic population of cosmic rays if its spectral shape traces that measured by CALET, DAMPE as well as KASCADE at higher energies. No extra-component besides the CR sea is needed to explain LHAASO results. Spatial dependent CR transport models, although not required to reproduce LHAASO results, are in better agreement with them respect to conventional ones and needed to consistently reproduce Fermi-LAT and neutrino data.

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Grasso et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d6e1248b2b6861e4c3fa5chttps://doi.org/10.22323/1.501.0662
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