1999/06/14 by A. W. Strong, I. V. Moskalenko, O. Reimer
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph
published as Proc. 26th ICRC (Salt Lake City), 1999, v.4, p.52-55 · 4 pages, 4 ps-figures, to appear in the Proceedings of 26th International Cosmic Ray Conference (Salt Lake City, 1999), OG 2.4.03 More details can be found at http://www.gamma.mpe-garching.mpg.de/~aws/aws.html
arxiv created 1999/06/14 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Recent evidence for a large Galactic halo, based on cosmic-ray radioactive nuclei, implies a significant contribution from inverse Compton emission at high Galactic latitudes. We present predictions for the expected intensity distribution, and show that the EGRET gamma-ray latitude distribution is well reproduced from the plane to the poles. We show that the Galactic component at high latitudes may be comparable to the extragalactic emission in some energy ranges.