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\textit{PeVatrons} are the extreme galactic accelerators capable of producing PeV particles. Recent observation of Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory have detected UHE photons ($\geq$ 100 TeV) from 43 galactic sources. Detection of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Gunindra Krishna Mahanta , Nilay Bhatt , Bitan Ghosal , Subir Bhattacharyya

The LHAASO Collaboration has recently reported a measurement of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Plane at energies between 10 TeV and 1 PeV. While this emission is brighter than that expected from cosmic-ray interactions in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-18 Ariane Dekker , Ian Holst , Dan Hooper , Giovani Leone , Emily Simon , Huangyu Xiao

It was proposed that the central dense stellar cluster in the Galactic Center, containing the mass of $\sim$4 times larger than that of the central black hole, had been formed as a result of a merging of several massive globular clusters.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-12 W. Bednarek , T. Sobczak

Interstellar clouds can act as target material for hadronic cosmic rays; gamma-rays produced through inelastic proton-proton collisions and spatially associated with the clouds provide a key indicator of efficient particle acceleration.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-05 Alison Mitchell , Gavin Rowell , Silvia Celli , Sabrina Einecke

Pulsed emission from gamma-ray pulsars originates inside the magnetosphere, from radiation by charged particles accelerated near the magnetic poles or in the outer gaps. In polar cap models, the high energy spectrum is cut off by magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alice K. Harding

Young open clusters are likely sites of cosmic ray acceleration as indicated by recent detections of the TeV gamma-ray sources in the directions of two open clusters (Cyg OB2 and Westerlund 2) and their directional proximity to some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 W. Bednarek

We investigate, in terms of production from pulsars and their nebulae, the cosmic ray positron and electron fluxes above $\sim10$ GeV, observed by the AMS-02 experiment up to 1 TeV. We concentrate on the Vela-X case. Starting from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-10 S. Della Torre , M. Gervasi , P. G. Rancoita , D. Rozza , A. Treves

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory has reported the discovery of TeV gamma-ray emission extending several degrees around the positions of Geminga and B0656+14 pulsars. Assuming these gamma rays are produced by inverse Compton scattering off…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Salesa Greus , S. Casanova , B. Dingus , R. Lopez-Coto , H. Zhou

Gamma-ray bursts may occur within pulsar wind bubbles (PWBs) under a number of scenarios, such as the supranova-like models in which the progenitor pulsar drives a powerful wind shocking against the ambient medium before it comes to death…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 X. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

The detection of diffuse radio emission associated with clusters of galaxies indicates populations of relativistic leptons infusing the intracluster medium. Those electrons and positrons are either injected into and accelerated directly in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Ackermann et al.

The number of plausible associations of extended VHE (TeV) sources with pulsars has been steadily growing, suggesting that many of these sources are pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). Here we overview the recent progress in X-ray and TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-09 Oleg Kargaltsev , George G. Pavlov , Martin Durant

Cosmic rays (protons and other atomic nuclei) are believed to gain energies of petaelectronvolts (PeV) and beyond at astrophysical particle accelerators called 'PeVatrons' inside our Galaxy. Although a characteristic feature of a PeVatron…

We discuss the implications of the recent X-ray and TeV gamma-ray observations of the PSR B1259-63 system (a young rotation powered pulsar orbiting a Be star) for the theoretical models of interaction of pulsar and stellar winds. We show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Neronov , M. Chernyakova

Supernova remnants interacting with molecular clouds are potentially exciting systems in which to detect evidence of cosmic ray acceleration. Prominent gamma-ray emission is produced via the decay of neutral pions when cosmic rays encounter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 John W. Hewitt , Farhad Yusef-Zadeh , Mark Wardle

Nearby electron/positron accelerators, mostly Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe), have been proposed as potential origins of the positron excess above 10 GeV. The HAWC Observatory reveals two very extended sources spatially coincident with two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Hao Zhou , Rubén López-Coto , Francisco Salesa Greus

Pulsar wind nebula (PWN) Boomerang and the associated supernova remnant (SNR) G106.3+2.7 are among candidates for the ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray counterparts published by LHAASO. Although the centroid of the extended source, LHAASO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-09 Xuan-Han Liang , Chao-Ming Li , Qi-Zuo Wu , Jia-Shu Pan , Ruo-Yu Liu

Recently, the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) reported the discovery of 12 ultrahigh-energy (UHE; $\mathrm{\varepsilon} \ge 100$ TeV) gamma-ray sources located in the Galactic plane. A few of these UHE gamma-ray emitting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Jagdish C. Joshi , Shuta J. Tanaka , Luis Salvador Miranda , Soebur Razzaque

The observation of peta-electronvolt (PeV) $\gamma$-ray photons from the Crab Nebula by LHAASO has revitalised the possibility of a secondary population of hadrons producing the highest energy emission through neutral pion decay. Despite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-11 Samuel T. Spencer , Alison M. W. Mitchell , Brian Reville

The Boomerang nebula is a bright radio and X-ray pulsar wind nebula (PWN) powered by an energetic pulsar, PSR~J2229+6114. It is spatially coincident with one of the brightest ultrahigh-energy (UHE, $\ge 100$\,TeV) gamma-ray sources,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 Xiao-Bin Chen , Xuan-Han Liang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

The dominant mechanisms underlying high-energy $\gamma$-ray emission from galaxies vary by galaxy type. In starbursts, a major contribution comes from neutral pion decay. This is driven by interactions between interstellar gas and hadronic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Ellis R. Owen , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Chung-Yue Hui , Tatsuki Fujiwara , Albert K. H. Kong