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Gamma-ray measurements from GeV to PeV energies have provided us with a wealth of information on diffuse emission and sources in the Universe lately. With improved spatial and temporal resolutions together with real-time multimessenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-02 Julia Becker Tjus , Julien Dörner , Leander Schlegel , Wolfgang Rhode

A crucial process in Galactic cosmic-ray (CR) transport is the spatial diffusion due to the interaction with the interstellar turbulent magnetic field. Usually, CR diffusion is assumed to be uniform and isotropic all across the Galaxy.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 Silvio Sergio Cerri , Daniele Gaggero , Andrea Vittino , Carmelo Evoli , Dario Grasso

We report the results of our study of the energy spectra and absolute fluxes of cosmic rays (CRs) in the Local Galaxy based on a five-year $\gamma$-ray observation with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of eight nearby giant molecular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-03 Rui-zhi Yang , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Felix Aharonian

Cosmic rays (CRs) with ~GeV energies can contribute significantly to the energy and pressure budget in the interstellar, circumgalactic, and intergalactic medium (ISM, CGM, IGM). Recent cosmological simulations have begun to explore these…

The diffuse galactic gamma-ray spectrum measured by the EGRET experiment \citep{Hunter:1997} are interpreted within a scenario in which cosmic rays (CRs) are injected by three different kind of sources, (i) supernovae (SN) which explode…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabrina Casanova , Peter L. Biermann , Ralph Engel , Athina Meli , Ralf Ulrich

Gamma-ray emission from large structures is useful for tracing the propagation and distribution of cosmic rays throughout our Galaxy. For example, the search for gamma-ray emission from Giant Molecular Clouds may allow us to probe the flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Henrike Fleischhack , Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares , Petra Huentemeyer , Matthew Coel

Diffuse gamma-ray emission is a key tracer of cosmic rays (CRs) in galaxies, encoding information about their transport, energetics, and interactions with the interstellar medium. Interpreting the Milky Way gamma-ray sky is challenging…

We show that the well-known discrepancy between the radial dependence of the Galactic cosmic ray (CR) nucleon distribution, as inferred most recently from EGRET observations of diffuse gamma-rays above 100 MeV, and of the most likely CR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Breitschwerdt , V. A. Dogiel , H. J. Voelk

Cosmic rays (CRs) play a major role in the dynamics of the interstellar medium (ISM). Their interactions and transport ionize, heat, and push the ISM thereby coupling different regions of it. The spatial distribution of CRs depends on the…

Recent gamma-ray observations have detected photons up to energies of a few PeV. These highly energetic gamma rays are emitted by the most powerful sources in the Galaxy. Propagating over astrophysical distances, gamma rays might interact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-18 Gaetano Di Marco , Rafael Alves Batista , Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Conde

Entering a new era of high-energy gamma-ray experiments, there is an exciting quest for the first detection of gamma-ray emission from clusters of galaxies. To complement these observational efforts, we use high-resolution simulations of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Anders Pinzke , Christoph Pfrommer

Observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the \textit{Fermi} mission of diffuse $\gamma$-rays in a mid-latitude region in the third quadrant (Galactic longitude $l$ from $200\arcdeg$ to $260\arcdeg$ and latitude $| b |$ from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-04 A. A. Abdo

Gamma-ray observations of nearby radio-line-emitting gas structures in the interstellar medium allow us to probe the spectrum of cosmic rays (CRs). In this paper, we analysed Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) gamma-ray observations of three…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-15 D. A. Prokhorov , S. Colafrancesco

Cosmic-ray (CR) sources temporarily enhance the relativistic particle density in their vicinity over the background distribution accumulated from the Galaxy-wide past injection activity and propagation. If individual sources are close…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 Guðlaugur Jóhannesson , Troy A. Porter

In a previous study (Maurin et al., 2001), we explored the set of parameters describing diffusive propagation of cosmic rays (galactic convection, reacceleration, halo thickness, spectral index and normalization of the diffusion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Maurin , Richard Taillet , Fiorenza Donato

The Fermi-LAT collaboration recently confirmed a discrepancy between the observed longitudinal profile of gamma-ray diffuse emission from the Galaxy and that computed with numerical codes assuming that Cosmic Rays (CRs) are produced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-01 Daniele Gaggero , Carmelo Evoli , Dario Grasso , Luca Maccione

The distribution of cosmic rays in the Galaxy at energies above few TeVs is still uncertain and this affects the expectations for the diffuse gamma flux produced by hadronic interactions of cosmic rays with the interstellar gas. We show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Cataldo , G. Pagliaroli , V. Vecchiotti , F. L. Villante

A detailed knowledge of the Galactic radio continuum is of high interest for studies of the dynamics and structure of the Galaxy as well as for the problem of foreground removal in Cosmic Microwave Background measurements. In this work we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 P. Platania , C. Burigana , D. Maino , E. Caserini , M. Bersanelli , B. Cappellini , A. Mennella

Interstellar synchrotron emission depends on Galactic magnetic fields and on cosmic-ray leptons. Observations of radio emission are an important tool for studying cosmic-ray propagation models and interstellar electron spectrum and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-24 Elena Orlando , Andrew W. Strong

Cosmic rays are nowadays a crucial tool to study the astrophysics of extreme objects in the Universe, the cosmic environmental plasma (both Galactic and extra-galactic), the physics of nuclear interactions or the properties of elementary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Pedro de la Torre Luque