Friday, 17 April 2015

astrophysics - Is it known what causes the "knee" in the observed Cosmic Ray spectrum?


I've seen many versions of the figure shown below -- the famous Swordy plot. They tend to explicitly point out two features in the CR spectrum, the knee and the ankle. I know that the source of UHECR's above the ankle is currently a mystery. But I'm having a devilish time sussing out the cause of this feature at the knee.


Is it known why the slope changes?


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