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Main Authors: Zhang, Yiran, Liu, Siming
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16554
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  • Within the classical convection--diffusion approximation, we show that the angular distribution of cosmic rays (CRs) in a highly turbulent flow may exhibit significant small-scale anisotropies. The CR intensity angular power spectrum $ C_\ell $ is then a direct reflection of interstellar turbulence, from which one expects $ C_\ell\propto\ell^{-γ-1} $ for $ \ell\gg 1 $, where $ γ$ is the power-law turbulence spectral index. Observations by IceCube and HAWC at TeV energies can be explained approximately with the Kolmogorov law $ γ=5/3 $ with a convection velocity dispersion of 20 km/s on the scale of 10 pc.