Cosmic Ray Program Assessment Group

• Main Authors: Point-of-contact Donald, C. Ellison, W. Robert Binns, John Krizmanic, Goddard Space, Igor V. Moskalenko, Jonathan Ormes, Andrew Westphal
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Milky Way; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.610.1163; http://cosmicray.umd.edu/vision2020/images/stories/file/RFI_25mar09_F.pdf

Key Science Goals (5 pages) Cosmic-ray astrophysics is on the verge of a decade of great discovery. There is now convincing evidence from TeV gamma-ray and X-ray synchrotron observations that cosmic-ray electrons are produced in young supernova remnants (SNRs) and the proof for cosmic-ray ion produc...