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Clusters of galaxies and the large scale filaments that connect neighboring clusters are expected to be sites of acceleration of charged particles and sources of non-thermal radiation from radio frequencies to gamma rays. Gamma rays are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pasquale Blasi , Stefano Gabici , Gianfranco Brunetti

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

Globular clusters (GCs) are astronomical tapestries embroidered with an abundance of exotic stellar-type objects. Their high age promises a rich harvest of evolved stellar products, while the deep potential wells and high mass densities at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-15 C. Venter , I. Buesching , A. Kopp , A. -C. Clapson , O. C. de Jager

Globular clusters are known to harbour a significant population of neutron star X-ray binaries that could be responsible for delaying the inevitable core collapse of these dense clusters. As a result, their progeny, namely millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-13 N. A. Webb , J. Knödlseder

The exclusive Galactic gamma-ray club has opened up to new members. Supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, and massive binary systems hosting a compact object have recently joined the young pulsars as firmly established sources of gamma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-03 Isabelle A. Grenier

We have investigated the properties of a group of $\gamma$-ray emitting globular clusters (GCs) which have recently been uncovered in our Galaxy. By correlating the observed $\gamma$-ray luminosities $L_{\gamma}$ with various cluster…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Y. Hui , K. S. Cheng , Y. Wang , P. H. T. Tam , A. K. H. Kong , D. O. Chernyshov , V. A. Dogiel

The observational progress in the $\gamma$-ray astronomy in the last few years has led to the discovery of more than a thousand sources at GeV energies and more than a hundred sources at TeV energies. A few different classes of compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-21 W. Bednarek

We study the gamma-ray emission from millisecond pulsars within the Milky Way's globular cluster system in order to measure the luminosity function of this source population. We find that these pulsars have a mean luminosity of $\langle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Aurelio Amerio , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Using gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope, various groups have identified a clear excess emission in the Inner Galaxy, at energies around a few GeV. This excess resembles remarkably well a signal from dark-matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-10 Richard Bartels , Suraj Krishnamurthy , Christoph Weniger

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has provided the most detailed view toward the Galactic Centre (GC) in high-energy gamma rays. Besides the interstellar emission and point-source contributions, the data suggest a residual diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Giacomo Fragione , Fabio Antonini , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Fermi has detected gamma-ray emission from eight globular clusters. We suggest that the gamma-ray emission from globular clusters may result from the inverse Compton scattering between relativistic electrons/positrons in the pulsar wind of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 K. S. Cheng , D. O. Chernyshov , V. A. Dogiel , C. Y. Hui , A. K. H. Kong

Millisecond pulsars are very likely the main source of gamma-ray emission from globular clusters. However, the relative contributions of two separate emission processes--curvature radiation from millisecond pulsar magnetospheres vs. inverse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-13 Deheng Song , Oscar Macias , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Roland M. Crocker , David M. Nataf

The launch of the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope and the imaging air Cerenkov telescopes H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS have substantially transformed our knowledge of gamma-ray sources in the last decade. The extragalactic gamma-ray sky is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-02 C. Pfrommer

The most energetic neutron stars, powered by their rotation, are capable of producing pulsed radiation from the radio up to gamma rays with nearly TeV energies. These pulsars are part of the universe of energetic and powerful particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 Isabelle A. Grenier , Alice K. Harding

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

The X-ray and $\gamma$-ray emission of globular clusters (GCs) is attributed to their large fraction of compact binary systems, especially those with millisecond pulsars (MSPs). We analyze a population of 124 Galactic GCs to investigate how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Raniere de Menezes , Federico Di Pierro , Andrea Chiavassa

Gamma rays from young pulsars and milli-second pulsars are expected to contribute to the diffuse gamma-ray emission measured by the {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT) at high latitudes. We derive the contribution of the pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-17 Francesca Calore , Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato

Using 16 years of data collected by Fermi Large Area Telescope and 1523 days of survey data from High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory, we discovered the long-sought second GeV-TeV connection towards the globular cluster (GC) UKS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-14 Jiwon Shin , C. Y. Hui , Sangin Kim , Kwangmin Oh , Ellis R. Owen

Globular clusters (GCs) are the oldest stellar system in the Galaxy, in which the millisecond pulsars are widely believed to be the only steady {\gamma}-ray emitters. So far 9 {\gamma}-ray GCs have been identified and a few candidates such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 J. N. Zhou , P. F. Zhang , X. Y. Huang , X. Li , Y. F. Liang , L. Fu , J. Z. Yan , Q. Z. Liu

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