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We investigate hadronic and leptonic scenarios for the GeV--TeV gamma-ray emission from jets of the microquasar SS 433. The emission region of the TeV photons coincides with the X-ray knots, where electrons are efficiently accelerated. On…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-04 Shigeo S. Kimura , Kohta Murase , Peter Mészáros

Aims: Probe the high-energy ($>$60 MeV) emission from the black hole X-ray binary system, Cygnus X-1, and investigate its origin. Methods: We analysed 7.5 yr of data by Fermi/LAT with the latest PASS8 software version. Results: We report…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-30 Roberta Zanin , Alba Fernández-Barral , Emma de Oña-Wilhelmi , Felix Aharonian , Oscar Blanch , Valentí Bosch-Ramon , Daniel Galindo

The development of techniques whereby gamma rays of energy 100 GeV and above can be studied from the ground, using indirect, but sensitive, techniques has opened up a new area of high energy photon astronomy. The most exciting result that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Horan , T. C. Weekes

The mysterious very high energy gamma-ray source, TeV J2032+4130, is coincident with the powerful Cygnus OB2 stellar association, though a physical association between the two remains uncertain. It is possible that the detected very high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yousaf M. Butt , Nicola Schneider , T. M. Dame , Christopher Brunt

The recent detections of microquasars at energies above a few hundred keV up to the TeV in one case has stimulated a strong interest and raised several questions. How are the MeV, GeV, and even TeV emissions, produced? What are the emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-07 Jérôme Rodriguez

We consider a possibility of identification of sources of cosmic rays (CR) of the energy above 1 TeV via observation of degree-scale extended gamma-ray emission which traces the locations of recent sources in the Galaxy. Such emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz

One of the most prominent features of the $\gamma$-ray sky is the emission from our own Galaxy. The Galactic plane has been observed by Fermi-LAT in GeV and H.E.S.S. in TeV light. Fermi has modeled the Galactic emission as the sum of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-09 Ellis Owen , Christoph Deil , Axel Donath , Régis Terrier

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

BL Lac objects are known to have very energetic jets pointing towards the observer under small viewing angles. Many of these show high luminosity over the whole energy range up to TeV, mostly classified as high-energy peaked BL Lac objects.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Kaufmann , S. J. Wagner , O. Tibolla

We report the observation of TeV gamma-rays from the Cygnus region using the ARGO-YBJ data collected from 2007 November to 2011 August. Several TeV sources are located in this region including the two bright extended MGRO J2019+37 and MGRO…

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

The TeV gamma-ray point source HESSJ1832-093 remains unidentified despite extensive multi-wavelength studies. The gamma-ray emission could originate in a very compact pulsar wind nebula or an X-ray binary system composed of the X-ray source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 P. Eger , H. Laffon , P. Bordas , E. de Ona Whilhelmi , J. Hinton , G. Puehlhofer

$\gamma$-ray observations of the Cygnus Cocoon, an extended source surrounding the Cygnus X star-forming region, suggest the presence of a cosmic ray accelerator reaching energies up to a few PeV. The very-high-energy (VHE; 0.1-100~TeV)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-18 David Guevel , Andrew Beardmore , Kim L Page , Amy Lien , Ke Fang , Luigi Tibaldo , Sabrina Casanova , Petra Huentemeyer

The IceCube Collaboration has recently reported evidence for a high-energy extraterrestrial neutrino flux. During two years of operation 28 events with energies between 30 TeV and 1.2 PeV were observed while only 10.6 events were expected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-16 Markus Ahlers , Kohta Murase

We show that it appears possible for starburst galaxies, like the nearby NGC 253, recently identified as a TeV source by the CANGAROO collaboration, to emit a significant amount of high-energy gamma-rays and neutrinos through hadronic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gustavo E. Romero , Diego F. Torres

The soft X-ray and soft gamma observations of the new discovered TeV sources by HESS and MAGIC are crucial to discriminate between various emitting scenarios and to fully understand their nature. The INTEGRAL Observatory has regularly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. De Rosa , P. Ubertini , A. Bazzano , L. Bassani , R. Landi , A. Malizia , J. B. Stephen

Galaxy clusters might be sources of TeV gamma rays emitted by high-energy protons and electrons accelerated by large scale structure formation shocks, galactic winds, or active galactic nuclei. Furthermore, gamma rays may be produced in…

The widespread detection of synchrotron X-ray emission from the jets of low-power, nearby radio galaxies implies the presence of electrons at and above TeV energies. In this paper we explore the possibility that the TeV gamma-rays detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 M. J. Hardcastle , J. H. Croston

The recent detections of TeV gamma-rays from compact binary systems show that relativistic outflows (jets or winds) are sites of effective acceleration of particles up to multi-TeV energies. In this paper, we discuss the conditions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dmitry Khangulyan , Felix Aharonian , Valenti Bosch-Ramon

We provide our estimates of the intensity of the gamma-ray emission with an energy near 0.1 TeV generated in inrergalactic space in the interactions of cosmic rays with background emissions. We assume that the cosmic ray sources are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 A. V. Uryson