Research Article

On the Cosmic Ray-Induced Ionization Rate in Molecular Clouds

Figure 2

The solid line is the energy-dependent flux of the CR particles (protons) in the local ISM [2]. Dotted, dashed, and dash-dotted lines show spectra given by [3] for three distinct parameter sets. For convenience, the values 𝐹 ( 𝐸 ) = 𝐹 s ( 𝐸 ) 𝐸 are presented.
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