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arxiv: 1608.07421 · v2 · pith:VNV4EDD4new · submitted 2016-08-26 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE

Fluxes of diffuse gamma rays and neutrinos from cosmic-ray interactions with circumgalactic gas

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The Milky Way is surrounded by a gravitationally bound gas corona extending up to the Galaxy's virial radius. Interactions of cosmic-ray particles with this gas give rise to energetic secondary gamma rays and neutrinos. We present a quantitative analysis of the neutrino and gamma-ray fluxes from the corona of the Milky Way together with a combined contribution of coronae of other galaxies. The high-energy neutrino flux is insufficient to explain the IceCube results, while the contribution to the FERMI-LAT diffuse gamma-ray flux is not negligible.

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