The dependence of the cosmic ray intensity on Galactocentric distance is known to be much less rapid than that to be thought-to-be sources: supernova remnants. This is an old problem ('the radial gradient problem') which has led to a number of possible 'scenarios'. Here, we use recent data on the supernova's radial distribution and correlate it with the measured HII electron temperature ({\em T}). We examined two models of cosmic ray injection and acceleration and in both of them the injection efficiency increases with increasing ambient temperature {\em T}. The increase is expected to vary as a high power of {\em T} in view of the strong temperature dependence of the tail of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of particle energies. Writing the efficiency as proportional to T^n we find n\approx 8.4. There is thus, yet another possible explanation of the radial gradient problem.
The radial gradient of cosmic ray intensity in the Galaxy
2015
Article (Journal)
English
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