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We carry out a search for high energy muon neutrino emission from the galaxy cluster Abell 119, motivated by a recent detection of GeV gamma rays from this cluster using the Fermi-LAT telescope, which hinted at a hadronic origin. For this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Sri Devaki Meduri , Shantanu Desai

The sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are still one of the main open questions in high-energy astrophysics. If UHECRs are accelerated in astrophysical sources, they are expected to produce high-energy photons and neutrinos…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-27 A. Barbano

Star-forming and starburst galaxies, which are well-known cosmic-rays reservoirs, are expected to emit gamma-rays and neutrinos predominantly via hadronic collisions. In this Letter, we analyze the 10-year Fermi-LAT spectral energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-07 Antonio Ambrosone , Marco Chianese , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Antonio Marinelli , Gennaro Miele

We study the inverse Compton scattering of solar photons by Galactic cosmic-ray electrons. We show that the gamma-ray emission from this process is substantial with the maximum flux in the direction of the Sun; the angular distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Igor V. Moskalenko , Troy A. Porter , Seth W. Digel

We explore the correlation of $\gamma$-ray emitting blazars with IceCube neutrinos by using three very recently completed, and independently built, catalogues and the latest neutrino lists. We introduce a new observable, namely the number…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 P. Padovani , E. Resconi , P. Giommi , B. Arsioli , Y. L. Chang

While supernova remnants have been identified as the most likely sources of the galactic cosmic rays, no conclusive observational evidence for this association exists. We show here that IceCube has the possibility of producing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Francis Halzen , Aongus O'Murchadha

We compute the contribution from clusters of galaxies to the diffuse neutrino and $\gamma-$ray background. Due to their unique magnetic-field configuration, cosmic rays (CRs) with energy $\leq10^{17}$ eV can be confined within these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-01 Saqib Hussain , Giulia Pagliaroli , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

We discuss neutrino and cosmic-ray emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) with the injection of nuclei, where we take into account that a nuclear cascade from photo-disintegration can fully develop in the source. One of our main objectives…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-18 Daniel Biehl , Denise Boncioli , Anatoli Fedynitch , Walter Winter

We introduce neutrino astronomy from the observational fact that Nature accelerates protons and photons to energies in excess of 10^{20} and 10^{13} eV, respectively. Although the discovery of cosmic rays dates back close to a century, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Halzen

Mysteries about the origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos have deepened by the recent IceCube measurement of a large diffuse flux in the 10-100 TeV range. Based on the standard disk-corona picture of active galactic nuclei (AGN), we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-11 Kohta Murase , Shigeo S. Kimura , Peter Meszaros

The recent progress made in Galactic gamma-ray astronomy using the High Energy Stereoskopic System (H.E.S.S.) instrument provides for the first time a population of Galactic TeV gamma-rays, and hence potential neutrino sources, for which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Alexander Kappes , Jim Hinton , Christian Stegmann , Felix A. Aharonian

The diffuse Galactic $\gamma$-ray emission originates from the interactions between cosmic rays and the interstellar medium or radiation fields within our Galaxy, where the production of neutrinos is also anticipated. Recently, the Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Wenlian Li , Tian-Qi Huang , Donglian Xu , Huihai He

The undisputed galactic origin of cosmic rays at energies below the so-called knee implies an existence of a nonthemal population of galactic objects which effectively accelerate protons and nuclei to TeV-PeV energies. The distinct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Felix Aharonian

In light of the recent IceCube evidence for a flux of extraterrestrial neutrinos, we revisit the prospect of observing the sources of the Galactic cosmic rays. In particular, we update the predictions for the neutrino flux expected from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-20 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , F. Halzen , V. Niro

A fraction of merging galaxy clusters host diffuse radio emission in their central region, termed as a giant radio halo (GRH). The most promising mechanism of GRHs is the re-acceleration of non-thermal electrons and positrons by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-17 Kosuke Nishiwaki , Katsuaki Asano , Kohta Murase

Star-forming galaxies have been predicted to contribute considerably to the diffuse gamma-ray background as they are guaranteed reservoirs of cosmic rays. Assuming that the hadronic interactions responsible for high-energy gamma rays also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Irene Tamborra , Shin'ichiro Ando , Kohta Murase

We estimate the detection rate of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays on ground based arrays by assuming that the cosmic ray sources are active galactic nuclei. We analyse the cases of detection of clusters, several particles that arrived, within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. V. Uryson

The author reviews a model for the emission of high energy cosmic rays, gamma-rays and neutrinos from AGN (Active Galactic Nuclei) that he has proposed since 1985. Further discussion of the knee energy phenomenon of the cosmic ray energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Yukio Tomozawa

In this contribution we will discuss recent results concerning the intensity and the angular distribution of the gamma-ray and neutrino emissions as should be originated from the hadronic scattering of cosmic rays (CR) with the interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-02 C. Evoli , D. Grasso , L. Maccione

We report on the search for ultra-high-energy neutrinos from the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) using Surface Detector (SD) data from Phase I of the Pierre Auger Observatory (2004-2021). A total of 570 GRBs occur within the most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-02 Yago Lema-Capeans