Possible Origin of High-Energy Cosmic Gamma Rays?
- 17 March 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 22 (11), 550-551
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.22.550
Abstract
The intensity of the new microwave radiation observed by Shivanandan, Houck, and Harwit is adequate to produce, by Compton scattering on cosmic-ray electrons, the flux and distribution of ∼100-MeV rays reported by Clark, Garmire, and Kraushaar.
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- Cosmic-Ray Electron Spectrum above 50 BeV and Its Implications for Cosmic-Ray ConfinementPhysical Review Letters, 1968