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Star-forming regions have been proposed as potential Galactic cosmic-ray accelerators for decades. Cosmic ray acceleration can be probed through observations of gamma-rays produced in inelastic proton-proton collisions, at GeV and TeV…

Galaxy clusters could produce gamma-rays from inverse Compton scattering of cosmic ray electrons or hadronic interactions of cosmic ray protons with the intracluster medium. It is still an open question on whether gamma-ray emission ($>$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-12 Siddhant Manna , Shantanu Desai

We present our results on the {\gamma}-ray emission from interaction-powered supernovae (SNe), a recently discovered SN type that is suggested to be surrounded by a circumstellar medium (CSM) with densities 10^7-10^12~ cm^-3. Such high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-21 Dimitrios Kantzas , Maria Petropoulou , Apostolos Mastichiadis

When applied to the blast wave formed by the explosion of a massive star as a supernova (SN), the theory of diffusive particle acceleration at shock fronts predicts a very high energy density in cosmic rays. Almost immediately after…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 J. G. Kirk , P. Duffy , Lewis Ball

Recent observations suggest that gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and their afterglows are produced in star formation regions in distant galaxies by highly relativistic jets that happen to point in our direction. Relativistic beaming collimates the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnon Dar

Astrophysical searches for gamma rays are one of the main strategies to probe the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles. We present a new class of distinct sub-GeV spectral features that generically appear in kinematical situations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-20 Torsten Bringmann , Ahmad Galea , Andrzej Hryczuk , Christoph Weniger

Cosmic rays are charged energetic particles that permeate the interstellar medium. Their sizeable energy share and penetration power makes them essential players in the dynamical and chemical processes that rule Galactic evolution, such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Giada Peron , Sarah Recchia , Stefano Menchiari , Alexandre Marcowith , Andrei Bykov , Martin Pohl , Elena Amato

While star-forming galaxies could be major contributors to the cosmic GeV $\gamma$-ray background, they are expected to be MeV-dim because of the "pion bump" falling off below ~100 MeV. However, there are very few observations of galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Brian C. Lacki , Shunsaku Horiuchi , John F. Beacom

The high energy activity in the inner few degrees of the Galactic center is traced by diffuse radio, X-ray and gamma-ray emission. The physical relationship between different components of diffuse gas emitting at multiple wavelengths is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 F. Yusef-Zadeh , J. W. Hewitt , M. Wardle , V. Tatischeff , D. Roberts , W. Cotton , H. Uchiyama , M. Nobukawa , T. G. Tsuru , C. Heinke , M. Royster

Massive, early-type stars deposit energy and momentum in the interstellar medium through dense, supersonic winds. These objects are one of the most important sources of ionising radiation and chemical enrichment in the Galaxy. The physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paula Benaglia

In the extragalactic sky, microquasars and ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are known as energetic compact objects locating at off-nucleus positions in galaxies. Some of these objects are associated with expanding bubbles with a velocity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Shiu-Hang Lee , Yasuyuki T. Tanaka , Shogo B. Kobayashi

According to recent models, gamma-ray bursts apparently explode in a wide variety of ambient densities ranging from ~ 10^{-3} to 30 cm^{-3}. The lowest density environments seem, at first sight, to be incompatible with bursts in or near…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 John Scalo , J. Craig Wheeler

Long and short gamma-ray bursts are traditionally associated with galactic environments, where circumburst densities are small or moderate (few to hundreds of protons per cubic cm). However, both are also expected to occur in the disks of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Davide Lazzati , Gustavo Soares , Rosalba Perna

Very high energy {\gamma}-rays are one of the most important messengers of the non-thermal Universe. The major motivation of very high energy {\gamma}-ray astronomy is to find sources of high energy cosmic rays. Several astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 D. Bose , V. R. Chitnis , P. Majumdar , A. Shukla

High velocity clouds moving toward the disk will reach the Galactic plane and will inevitably collide with the disk. In these collisions a system of two shocks is produced, one propagating through the disk and the other develops within the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 Maria Victoria del Valle

The most common progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are massive stars with strong stellar winds. We show that the GRB blast wave in the wind should emit a bright GeV flash. It is produced by inverse Compton cooling of the thermal plasma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Andrei M. Beloborodov , Romain Hascoet , Indrek Vurm

It's generally believed that young and rapidly rotating pulsars are important sites of particle's acceleration, in which protons can be accelerated to relativistic energy above the polar cap region if the magnetic moment is antiparallel to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Zhi-Xiong Li , Gui-Fang Lin , Wei-Wei Na

The measurement of gamma rays at MeV energies from cosmic radioactivities is one of the key tools for nuclear astrophysics, in its study of nuclear reactions and how they shape objects such as massive stars and supernova explosions.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Roland Diehl

Supernova remnants interacting with molecular clouds are ideal laboratories to study the acceleration of particles at shock waves and their transport and interactions in the surrounding interstellar medium. In this paper, we focus on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 V. H. M. Phan , S. Gabici , G. Morlino , R. Terrier , J. Vink , J. Krause , M. Menu

Long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are produced by ultra-relativistic jets launched from core collapse of massive stars. Most massive stars form in binaries and/or in star clusters, which means that there may be a significant external photon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-27 Wenbin Lu , Pawan Kumar , George F. Smoot