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There is mounting evidence that long duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by ultra-relativistic jets of ordinary matter which are ejected in core collapse supernova (SN) explosions. Such jets are extremely efficient cosmic ray (CR)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 Arnon Dar

The nature of the recently detected HE and VHE gamma-ray emission of Tycho's supernova remnant (SNR) is studied. A nonlinear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) is employed to investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-13 E. G. Berezhko , L. T. Ksenofontov , H. J. Voelk

We reanalyze 15 years of data recorded by the Fermi Large Area Telescope in a region around supernova remnant (SNR) $\gamma$-Cygni from 100 MeV to 1 TeV, and find that the spectra of two extended sources associated with the southeast radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Yuan Li , Gwenael Giacinti , Siming Liu , Yi Xing

Galactic cosmic ray (CRs) sources, classically proposed to be Supernova Remnants (SNRs), must meet the energetic particle content required by direct measurements of high energy CRs. Indirect gamma-ray measurements of SNRs with the Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 T. J. Brandt , F. Acero , F. de Palma , J. W. Hewitt , M. Renaud

A group of middle-aged mixed-morphology (MM) supernova remnants (SNRs) interacting with molecular clouds (MC) has been discovered as strong GeV gamma-ray emitters by Large Area Telescope on board Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope (Fermi-LAT).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-08 Tülün Ergin , Aytap Sezer , Lab Saha , Pratik Majumdar , Anshu Chatterjee , Arif Bayırlı , E. Nihal Ercan

In this study, we treat the Fermi bubbles as a scaled-up version of supernova remnants (SNRs). The bubbles are created through activities of the super-massive black hole (SMBH) or starbursts at the Galactic center (GC). Cosmic-rays (CRs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki

Gamma-ray instrumentation for astronomical spectroscopy consists of multiple-interaction detectors in space combined with sophisticated post-processing of detector events on ground. Spectral signatures in the MeV regime originate from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-06 Roland Diehl

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to be the most plausible sources of Galactic cosmic rays. One of the principal questions is whether they are accelerating particles up to the maximum energy of Galactic cosmic rays ($\sim$PeV). In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-31 Hiromasa Suzuki , Aya Bamba , Ryo Yamazaki , Yutaka Ohira

High energy $\gamma$ rays from Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) carry direct information about the spatial and energy distributions of Galactic Cosmic Rays (CRs). The recently released catalogs of GMCs contain sufficiently massive clouds to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Felix Aharonian , Giada Peron , Ruizhi Yang , Sabrina Casanova , Roberta Zanin

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are likely sources of hadronic particle acceleration within our galaxy, contributing to the galactic cosmic ray flux. Next-generation instruments, such as the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO), will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Nick Scharrer , Samuel T. Spencer , Vikas Joshi , Alison M. W. Mitchell

A complete model for the origin of high-energy >~10^{14} eV) cosmic rays from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and implications of this hypothesis are described. Detection of high-energy neutrinos from GRBs provide an unambiguous test of the model.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 C. Dermer

We aim to elucidate cosmic ray (CR) propagation in the weakly ionized environments of supernova remnants (SNRs) basing our analysis on the cosmic ray cloud (CRC) model developed by \citet{2013ApJ...768...73M} and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 L. Brahimi , A. Marcowith , V. S. Ptuskin

Molecular clouds are expected to emit non-thermal radiation due to cosmic ray interactions in the dense magnetized gas. Such emission is amplified if a cloud is located close to an accelerator of cosmic rays and if energetic particles can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Stefano Gabici , Felix A. Aharonian , Sabrina Casanova

We present the AGILE gamma-ray observations in the energy range 50 MeV - 10 GeV of the supernova remnant (SNR) W44, one of the most interesting systems for studying cosmic-ray production. W44 is an intermediate-age SNR (20, 000 years) and…

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to be the site of galactic cosmic-ray acceleration. However, the details of the cosmic-ray acceleration are still not well understood. Gamma ray observation is a promising method to study cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 Tsuyoshi Inoue

Classical novae produce radioactive nuclei which are emitters of gamma-rays in the MeV range. Some examples are the lines at 478 and 1275 keV (from 7Be and 22Na) and the positron-electron annihilation emission, with the 511 keV line and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-06 M. Hernanz

The flux of gamma rays with energies >100MeV is dominated by diffuse emission from CRs illuminating the ISM of our Galaxy through the processes of Bremsstrahlung, pion production and decay, and inverse-Compton scattering. The study of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT collaboration

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 first report GeV $\gamma$-ray emission from supernova remnant (SNR) G15.9+0.2 in this work. The results show that its power-law spectral index is 2.94$\pm$0.25 with a 6.47$\sigma$ significance level, and the $\gamma$-ray emission can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Yunchuan Xiang , Zejun Jiang , Mengyao Tang

The shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) RCW 86, possibly associated with the historical supernova SN 185, with its relatively large size (about 40' in diameter) and the presence of non-thermal X-rays is a promising target for gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 HESS Collaboration , F. Aharonian