Deciphering diffuse Galactic continuum gamma rays
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Inverse Compton scattering appears to play a more important role in the diffuse Galactic continuum emission than previously thought, from MeV to GeV energies. We compare models having a large inverse Compton component with EGRET data, and find good agreement in the longitude and latitude distributions at low and high energies. We test an alternative explanation for the >1 GeV gamma-ray excess, the hard nucleon spectrum, using secondary antiprotons and positrons.
4 pages including 9 ps-figures, latex2e, uses epsfig.sty, times.sty, wrapfig.sty. To appear in: Proc. of 16th European Cosmic Ray Symposium (July 1998, Alcala), GR-1.3. More details can be found at http://www.gamma.mpe-garching.mpg.de/~aws/aws.html Some references are added
4 pages including 9 ps-figures, latex2e, uses epsfig.sty, times.sty, wrapfig.sty. To appear in: Proc. of 16th European Cosmic Ray Symposium (July 1998, Alcala), GR-1.3. More details can be found at http://www.gamma.mpe-garching.mpg.de/~aws/aws.html Some references are added