Tracing the sources of cosmic rays with molecular ions
  The rate of ionization by cosmic rays in interstellar gas directly associated with gamma-ray emitting supernova remnants is for the first time calculated to be several orders of magnitude larger than the Galactic average. Analysis of ionization-induced chemistry yields the first quantitative prediction of the astrophysical H_{2}^{+} emission line spectrum, which should be detectable together with H_3^+ lines. The predicted coincident observation of those emission lines and gamma-rays will help prove that supernova remnants are sources of cosmic rays. 
J.K. Becker, J.H. Black, M. Safarzadeh, F. Schuppan
astro-ph.GA