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

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-29 A. M. W. Mitchell , G. P. Rowell , S. Celli , S. Einecke

We will here discuss how the gamma-ray emission from molecular clouds can be used to probe the cosmic ray flux in distant regions of the Galaxy and to constrain the highly unknown cosmic ray diffusion coefficient. In particular we will…

A significative fraction of high mass stars sail away through the interstellar medium of the galaxies. Once they evolved and died via a core collapse supernova, a magnetized, rotating neutron star (a pulsar) is usually their leftover. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 D. M. A. Meyer , Z Meliani , D. F. Torres

It is proposed that TeV gamma-rays and neutrinos can be produced by cosmic rays (CRs) through hadronic interactions in the innermost parts of the winds of massive O and B stars. Convection prevents low-energy particles from penetrating into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Diego F. Torres , Eva Domingo-Santamaria , Gustavo E. Romero

Our understanding of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe), has greatly improved in the last years thanks to unprecedented high resolution images taken from the HUBBLE, CHANDRA and XMM satellites. The discovery of complex but similar inner features,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 N. Bucciantini

We consider the neutron star (NS) of the magnetar type inside the massive binary system. We determine the conditions under which the matter from the stellar wind can penetrate the inner magnetosphere of the magnetar. At some distance from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 W. Bednarek

Combined X-ray synchrotron and inverse-Compton gamma-ray observations of pulsar wind nebulae (PWN) may help to elucidate the processes of acceleration and energy loss in these systems. In particular, such observations provide constraints on…

Diffuse emission in gamma-rays and neutrinos are produced by the interaction of cosmic rays with the interstellar medium. Below some hundreds of TeV, the sources of these cosmic rays are most likely Galactic. Hence, observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Anton Stall , Philipp Mertsch

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

The Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN) 3C 58 is energized by one of the highest spin-down power pulsars known (5% of Crab pulsar) and it has been compared to the Crab Nebula due to their morphological similarities. This object was detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-07 O. Blanch Bigas , R. Lopez , E. Carmona , MAGIC Collaboration , M. A. Pérez-Torres

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) constitute the largest population of Galactic very-high-energy (VHE; $E > 100$ GeV) $\gamma$-ray sources and are key laboratories for studying particle acceleration and pulsar--supernova remnant (SNR)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 A. De Sarkar , D. F. Torres , B. Olmi , N. Bucciantini , D. M. -A. Meyer

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

Neutron stars, just after their formation, are surrounded by expanding, dense, and very hot envelopes which radiate thermal photons. Iron nuclei can be accelerated in the wind zones of such energetic pulsars to very high energies. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. H. Beall , W. Bednarek

The current detectors of gamma-ray emission specially at TeV energies have too poor resolution to determine whether this emission is produced in the jet or in the core, particularly of low luminous, non-blazar AGNs (like radio galaxies). In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-28 Behrouz Khiali , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Hélène Sol

A gas cloud near a supernova remnant (SNR) provides a target for pp-collisions leading to subsequent gamma-ray emission through neutral pion decay. The assumption of a power-law ambient spectrum of accelerated particles with index near -2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-25 I. V. Moskalenko , T. A. Porter , M. A. Malkov , P. H. Diamond

TeV haloes are extended sources of very-high-energy gamma rays found around some middle-aged pulsars. The emission spanning several tens of parsecs suggests an efficient confinement of the ultra-relativistic lepton pairs produced by pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 Lioni-Moana Bourguinat , Carmelo Evoli , Pierrick Martin , Sarah Recchia

The recent measurement by LHAASO of gamma-ray emission extending up to 100s of TeV from multiple Galactic sources represents a major observational step forward in the search for the origin of the Galactic cosmic rays. The burning question…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 M. Breuhaus , B. Reville , J. A. Hinton

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

GeV and TeV gamma rays have been detected from the supernova remnant W28 and its surroundings. Such emission correlates quite well with the position of dense and massive molecular clouds and thus it is often interpreted as the result of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-28 S. Gabici , S. Casanova , F. A. Aharonian , G. Rowell

The discovery of extended gamma-ray emission toward a number of middle-aged pulsars suggests the possibility of long-lived particle confinement beyond the classical pulsar wind nebula (PWN) stage. How this emerging source class can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Pierrick Martin , Luigi Tibaldo , Alexandre Marcowith , Soheila Abdollahi