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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

In a Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN), the lifetime of inverse Compton (IC) emitting electrons exceeds the lifetime of its progenitor pulsar (as well as its shell-type remnant), but it also exceeds the age of those that emit via synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 O. Tibolla , M. Vorster , O. de Jager , S. E. S. Ferreira , S. Kaufmann , C. Venter , K. Mannheim , F. Giordano

Measurements of the nearby pulsars Geminga and B0656+14 by the HAWC and Milagro telescopes have revealed the presence of bright TeV-emitting halos surrounding these objects. If young and middle-aged pulsars near the Galactic Center transfer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-12 Dan Hooper , Ilias Cholis , Tim Linden

Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) represent the most prominent population of Galactic very-high-energy gamma-ray sources and are thought to be an efficient source of leptonic cosmic rays. Vela X is a nearby middle-aged PWN, which shows bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 H. E. S. S. Collaboration

The supranova model for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has recently gained popularity. In this scenario the GRB occurs weeks to years after a supernova explosion, and is located inside a pulsar wind bubble (PWB). High energy protons from the PWB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jonathan Granot , Dafne Guetta

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

Recent observations suggest that many old pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are bright TeV gamma-ray sources without a strong X-ray counterpart. In this paper, we study the spectral evolution of PWNe taking into account the energy which was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-15 S. J. Tanaka , F. Takahara

A large part of the Galactic sources emitting very high energy (VHE; > 10^{11} eV) gamma-rays are currently still unidentified. The evolution of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) plays a crucial role in interpreting these sources. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-30 S. Kaufmann , O. Tibolla

\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

We study the $\gamma$-ray emission from the pulsar magnetosphere based on outer gap models, and the TeV radiation from pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) through inverse Compton scattering using a one-zone model. We showed previously that GeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Wang , Z. J. Jiang , C. S. J. Pun , K. S. Cheng

The evolution of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) plays a crucial role in interpreting the very high energy (VHE; > 10^11 eV) gamma-ray unidentified sources; and moreover it represents the only viable option to explain the discovery of several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-01 Omar Tibolla , Michael Vorster , Sarah Kaufmann , Stefan Ferreira , Karl Mannheim

The discovery of extended TeV emission around the Geminga and PSR B0656+14 pulsars, with properties consistent with free particle propagation in the interstellar medium (ISM), has sparked considerable discussion on the possible presence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-29 G. Giacinti , A. M. W. Mitchell , R. López-Coto , V. Joshi , R. D. Parsons , J. A. Hinton

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

Among dozens young pulsar wind nebulae, some have been detected in TeV \gamma-rays (TeV PWNe), while others have not (non-TeV PWNe). The TeV emission detectability is not correlated either with the spin-down power or with the characteristic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Shuta J. Tanaka , Fumio Takahara

Radio observations of very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray sources are fundamental to identify and reveal their nature, as well as to understand the physics behind these energetic sources. I will comment on some characteristics of extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-04 Josep M. Paredes

Gamma-ray binaries are orbital modulated gamma-ray sources in the Galaxy detected both at GeV and TeV energies. The high-energy radiation may come from the interaction of energetic electrons injected by a young pulsar and photons from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-21 B. Cerutti , G. Dubus , G. Henri

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are among the most extreme particle accelerators in galaxies, are recognized as multi-TeV electron/positron sources, and are one of the dominant classes of Galactic gamma-ray sources. Vela X is a nearby PWN at 290…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Tibaldo , F. Aharonian , P. Bordas , S. Caroff , J. A. Hinton , D. Khangulyan , H. Odaka , R. Tuffs

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 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

We have estimated fluxes of neutrinos and gamma-rays that are generated from decays of charged and neutral pions from a pulsar surrounded by supernova ejecta in our galaxy, including an effect that has not been taken into consideration,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Nagataki
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