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Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes have revealed more than 100 TeV sources along the Galactic Plane, around 45% of them remain unidentified. However, radio observations revealed that dense molecular clumps are associated with 67% of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Kouichi Hirotani , Hung-Yi Pu , Satoki Matsushita

The recent HESS detections of supernova remnant shells in TeV gamma-rays confirm the theoretical predictions that supernova remnants can operate as powerful cosmic ray accelerators. If these objects are responsible for the bulk of galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefano Gabici , Felix A. Aharonian

The high-energy diffuse gamma-ray emission and neutrino emission are expected from the Galactic plane, generated by hadronuclear interactions between cosmic rays (CR) and interstellar medium (ISM). Therefore, measurements of these diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-19 Kai Yan , Ruo-Yu Liu , Rui Zhang , Chao-Ming Li , Qiang Yuan , Xiang-Yu Wang

Recently, it was suggested that a photospheric component that results from the internal dissipation occurring in the optically thick inner parts of relativistic outflows may be present in the prompt $\gamma$/X-ray emission of gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiang-Yu Wang , Zi-Gao Dai

We consider different scenarios of collisions of compact objects (clouds, massive stars, supernova shock waves, or young pulsars) with jets in active galactic nuclei. The purpose is to find out if such collisions can become plausible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Bednarek

We review observations of several classes of neutron-star-powered outflows: pulsar-wind nebulae (PWNe) inside shell supernova remnants (SNRs), PWNe interacting directly with interstellar medium (ISM), and magnetar-powered outflows. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-26 Stephen P. Reynolds , George G. Pavlov , Oleg Kargaltsev , Noel Klinger , Matthieu Renaud , Sandro Mereghetti

The shock wave of supernova remnants (SNRs) and the wind termination shock in pulsar wind nebula (PWNe) are considered as prime candidates to accelerate the bulk of Galactic cosmic ray (CR) ions and electrons. The SNRs hosting a PWN (known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 F. Acero , A. Djannati-Ataï , A. Förster , Y. Gallant , M. Renaud

The extended nebulae formed as pulsar winds expand into their surroundings provide information about the composition of the winds, the injection history from the host pulsar, and the material into which the nebulae are expanding.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Patrick Slane

Gamma rays from HESS J1849$-$000, a middle-aged TeV pulsar wind nebula (PWN), are observed by the Tibet air shower array and the muon detector array. The detection significance of gamma rays reaches $4.0\, \sigma$ and $4.4\, \sigma$ levels…

In the past few years, gamma-ray astronomy has entered a golden age thanks to two major breakthroughs: Cherenkov telescopes on the ground and the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite. The sample of supernova remnants…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-06 John W. Hewitt , Marianne Lemoine-Goumard

Nearby pulsars have been suggested as sources of $\sim$TeV $e^+/e^-$ Cosmic Ray (CR) excess on Earth. The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) detected extended TeV emission regions in the direction of two nearby middle-aged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Xiaping Tang , Tsvi Piran

Although it is widely accepted that the electromagnetic spectrum from radio to very-high-energy $\gamma$-rays of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) originates from leptons, there is still an open question that protons (or more generally, ions) may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-12 Xiao Zhang , Yang Chen , Jing Huang , Ding Chen

MAGIC and H.E.S.S experiments are the first to produce images of supernova remnats (SNRs) in TeV gamma-rays. The gamma-radiation are produced either by electrons (due to inverse-Compton scatterings) or protons (due to pion decays). We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-13 V. Beshley , O. Petruk

This paper deals with the cosmic-ray penetration into molecular clouds and with the related gamma--ray emission. High energy cosmic rays interact with the dense gas and produce neutral pions which in turn decay into two gamma rays. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Stefano Gabici

Hypernebulae are inflated by accretion-powered winds accompanying hyper-Eddington mass transfer from an evolved post-main sequence star onto a black hole or neutron star companion. The ions accelerated at the termination shock -- where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-02 Navin Sridhar , Brian D. Metzger , Ke Fang

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) represent the largest class of sources that upcoming {\gamma}-ray surveys will detect. Therefore, accurate modelling of their global emission properties is one of the most urgent problems in high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 M. Fiori , B. Olmi , E. Amato , R. Bandiera , N. Bucciantini , L. Zampieri , A. Burtovoi

The energetic pulsar, PSR J2032+4127, has been recently discovered in the direction of the unidentified HEGRA TeV gamma-ray source (TeV J2032+4130). It is proposed that this pulsar forms a binary system with the Be type star, MT91 213,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-07 Wlodek Bednarek , Piotr Banasinski , Julian Sitarek

A model is proposed for the observed combination of power-law and thermal emission of keV X-rays from rotationally powered pulsars. For gamma-ray pulsars with accelerators very many stellar radii above the neutron star surface, 100 MeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Y. -H. Wang , M. Ruderman , J. P. Halpern , T. Zhu

We present a new pulsar wind nebula (PWN) model solving both advection and diffusion of non-thermal particles in a self-consistent way to satisfy the momentum and energy conservation laws. Assuming spherically symmetric (1--D) steady…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Wataru Ishizaki , Katsuaki Asano , Kyohei Kawaguchi

We present a Chandra X-ray observation of G12.82-0.02, a shell-like radio supernova remnant coincident with the TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1813-178. We resolve the X-ray emission from the co-located ASCA source into a point source…