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Milagro is a water Cherenkov extensive air shower array that continuously monitors the entire overhead sky in the TeV energy band. The results from an analysis of $\sim$3 years of data (December 2000 through November 2003) are presented.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The Milagro Collaboration

The H.E.S.S. Galactic plane scan has revealed a large population of Galactic very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) emitters. The majority of the galactic sources are extended and can typically be associated with pulsar wind nebulae (35%) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Karlen Shahinyan

Detection of a gamma-ray source above 300 GeV is reported, confirming the unidentified source MGRO J1908+06, discovered by the Milagro collaboration at a median energy of 20 TeV. The source was observed during 27 h as part of the extension…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Aharonian

In recent years, the number of known sources emitting very- and ultra-high-energy gamma-rays has increased significantly thanks to facilities such as LHAASO and HAWC. Many of the observed sources are still unidentified or poorly constrained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Michela Rigoselli , Sarah Recchia , Alberto Bonollo , Silvia Crestan , Giada Peron , Andrea Giuliani , Sandro Mereghetti

Approximately one hundred sources of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays are known in the Milky Way. A survey of the entire Galactic Plane in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to a few hundred TeV has been proposed as a Key Science…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-28 CTA Consortium

The recent results from ground based $\gamma$-ray detectors (HESS, MAGIC, VERITAS) provide a population of TeV galactic $\gamma$-ray sources which are potential sources of High Energy (HE) neutrinos. Since the $\gamma$-rays and $\nu$ -s are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 N. Sahakyan

The diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Milky Way serves as a crucial probe for understanding the propagation and interactions of cosmic rays within our galaxy. The Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 10 TeV and 1 PeV has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-07 Jiayin He , Houdun Zeng , Yi Zhang , Qiang Yuan , Rui Zhang , Jun Li

At very high energies (VHE), the emission of $\gamma$ rays is dominated by discrete sources. Due to the limited resolution and sensitivity of current-generation instruments, only a small fraction of the total Galactic population of VHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-19 Constantin Steppa , Kathrin Egberts

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) has revealed many TeV (10 12 eV) gamma-ray sources along the Galactic Plane and around 30 percent of these sources remain unidentified. The morphology and dynamics of dense gas coincident and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-12 P. de Wilt , G. Rowell , A. J. Walsh , M. Burton , J. Rathborne , Y. Fukui , A. Kawamura , F. Aharonian

The majority of galactic gamma rays are produced by interaction of cosmic rays with matter or radiation fields. This results in a diffuse radiation concentrated in the galactic plane where the flux of cosmic rays and the density of material…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 R. Fleysher

Gamma-ray observations have recently shifted the focus to higher and higher energies, with capable ground-based instruments enabling measurements in the TeV to PeV domain. While a clear prevalence of diffuse emission is observed in the GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-22 Kathrin Egberts , Constantin Steppa , Karol Pawel Peters

Many of the recently discovered TeV gamma-ray sources are associated with pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). In fact, they represent the most populous class of Galactic sources at TeV energies. In addition, HESS has also discovered, in a survey of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chulhoon Chang , Alexander Konopelko , Wei Cui

A large fraction of Galactic very-high energy (VHE; E$\gtrsim$100 GeV) $\gamma$-ray sources is cataloged as unidentified. In this work we explore the possibility that these unidentified sources are located in ambients particularly rich in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-10 Giovanna Pedaletti , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Diego F. Torres , Giovanni Natale

The H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey (HGPS), the first comprehensive survey of the inner Galaxy at TeV energies, has led to the discovery of an unexpectedly large and diverse population of over 60 sources of TeV gamma rays within its current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 S. Carrigan , F. Brun , R. C. G. Chaves , C. Deil , A. Donath , H. Gast , V. Marandon , M. Renaud

High-energy neutrino and $\gamma$-ray emission has been observed from the Galactic plane, which may come from individual sources and/or diffuse cosmic rays. We evaluate the contribution of these two components through the multimessenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-30 Ke Fang , Kohta Murase

The number of discovered TeV sources populating the extragalactic sky in 2017 is nearly 70, mostly blazars located up to a redshift ~1. Ten years ago, in 2007, less than 20 TeV emitters were known, up to a maximum redshift of 0.2. This is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-06 Elisa Prandini

Recent observations of binary systems obtained with the H.E.S.S. telescopes are providing crucial information on the physics of relativistic outflows and the engines powering them. We report here on new H.E.S.S. results on HESS J0632+057,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Pol Bordas , Hélène Laffon , Mathieu de Naurois , Stefan Ohm , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Iurii Sushch , Francesca Volpe , Víctor Zabalza

Galactic diffuse TeV gamma-ray emission is produced by the interaction of high-energy cosmic-ray particles with matter and radiation in our Galaxy. The measurement of Galactic diffuse TeV gamma-ray emission would provide strong constraints…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Hao Zhou , Chang Dong Rho , Giacomo Vianello

Gamma-ray emission from a narrow band at the Galactic equator has previously been detected up to 30 GeV. We report evidence for a TeV gamma-ray signal from the Galactic plane by Milagro, a large field of view water Cherenkov detector for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 the Milagro Collaboration

Terzan 5 is the only Galactic globular cluster that has plausibly been detected in the very-high-energy range. Stacking upper limits by H.E.S.S. on the integral $\gamma$-ray flux of a population of other globular clusters are very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 Hambeleleni Ndiyavala-Davids , Christo Venter , Andreas Kopp , Michael Backes