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Appendix A is only available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org

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As follows from observations of the X-ray flux from the Galactic disk (see Lebrun et al. 2004), similar processes may accelerate particles up to $\la$100 keV in the interstellar medium, although one cannot exclude the possibility that electrons are accelerated to far higher energies.

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