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Centaurus B (Cen B) is one of the closest and brightest radio-loud galaxy in the southern sky. This radio galaxy, proposed as a plausible candidate for accelerating ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), is near the highest-energy neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 N. Fraija , M. Araya , A. Galvan-Gamez , J. A. de Diego

Pierre Auger observatory reported the distribution of arrival directions of the highest energy cosmic rays. These events were collected in 10 years of operations with declinations between -90$^\circ$ and +45$^\circ$. The IceCube neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 N. Fraija , E. Aguilar-Ruiz , A. Galván-Gámez , A. Marinelli , J. A. de Diego

If, as recently proposed by Farrar and Piran, Cen A is the source of cosmic rays detected above the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuz'min cutoff, neutrons are $\approx 140$ more probable than protons to be observed along its line of sight. This is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Haim Goldberg , Thomas J. Weiler

In this paper, we identify Cen A and M87, two nearby Fanaroff-Riley I (FRI) radio galaxies, with high-energy-peaked BL Lac-like (HBL-like) objects by investigating their spectral energy distributions (SEDs). The SED peak of Cen A at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. M. Bai , Myung Gyoon Lee

The current detectors of gamma-ray emission specially at TeV energies have too poor resolution to determine whether this emission is produced in the jet or in the core, particularly of low luminous, non-blazar AGNs (like radio galaxies). In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-28 Behrouz Khiali , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Hélène Sol

We investigate hadronic and leptonic scenarios for the GeV--TeV gamma-ray emission from jets of the microquasar SS 433. The emission region of the TeV photons coincides with the X-ray knots, where electrons are efficiently accelerated. On…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-04 Shigeo S. Kimura , Kohta Murase , Peter Mészáros

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 existence of a "knee" at energy ~1 PeV in the cosmic-ray spectrum suggests the presence of Galactic PeV proton accelerators called "PeVatrons". Supernova Remnant (SNR) G106.3+2.7 is a prime candidate for one of these. The recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-11 Ke Fang , Matthew Kerr , Roger Blandford , Henrike Fleischhack , Eric Charles

Fermi LAT has detected gamma ray emissions from the core of Cen A. More recently, a new component in the gamma ray spectrum from the core has been reported in the energy range of 4 GeV to tens of GeV. We show that the new component and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-02 Esha Kundu , Nayantara Gupta

Recent observations, particularly from the HESS Collaboration, have revealed rich Galactic populations of TeV gamma-ray sources, including a collection unseen in other wavelengths. Many of these gamma-ray spectra are well measured up to ~10…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthew D. Kistler , John F. Beacom

We report the discovery of faint very high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from the radio galaxy Centaurus A in deep observations performed with the H.E.S.S. experiment. A signal with a statistical significance of 5.0 sigma is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Raue , J. -P. Lenain , F. A. Aharonian , Y. Becherini , C. Boisson , A. -C. Clapson , L. Costamante , L. Gerard , C. Medina , M. de Naurois , M. Punch , F. Rieger , H. Sol , L. Stawarz , A. Zech

We show that TeV neutrinos and high-energy gamma rays detected from the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068 can simultaneously be explained in a model based on the beta decays of neutrons produced in the photodisintegration of 4He nuclei on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-31 Koichiro Yasuda , Nobuyuki Sakai , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Alexander Kusenko

The question of the origin of the hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray emission in Centaurus A (Cen A) persists despite decades of observations. Results from X-ray instruments suggest a jet origin since the implied electron temperature (kT_e) would…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 James Rodi , E. Jourdain , M. Molina , J. -P. Roques

In the recent years, the new generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes successfully detected very high energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from a growing number of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), mainly belonging to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-13 J. -P. Lenain

The recent detection of TeV gamma-rays from the microquasar LS 5039 by HESS is one of the most exciting discoveries of observational gamma-ray astronomy in the very high energy regime. This result clearly demonstrates that X-ray binaries…

Cosmic rays (protons and other atomic nuclei) are believed to gain energies of petaelectronvolts (PeV) and beyond at astrophysical particle accelerators called 'PeVatrons' inside our Galaxy. Although a characteristic feature of a PeVatron…

We report the discovery of faint very high energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from the radio galaxy Centaurus A in observations performed with the H.E.S.S. experiment, an imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope array consisting of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-17 HESS Collaboration , F. Aharonian

The origin of diffuse high-energy neutrinos from TeV to PeV energies detected by IceCube Observatory remains a mystery. In our previous work, we have shown that hadronuclear (p-p) interactions in AGN jets could be important and generate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-08 Rui Xue , Ze-Rui Wang , Jagdish C. Joshi , Wei-Jian Li

The supernova remnant Cassiopeia A is a prime candidate for accelerating cosmic ray protons and ions. Gamma rays have been observed at GeV and TeV energies, which indicates hadronic interactions, but they could also be caused by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-19 A. Summa , D. Elsaesser , K. Mannheim

Recent observations of Sgr A$^*$ by Fermi and HESS have detected steady gamma-ray emission in the GeV and TeV bands. We present a new model to explain the GeV gamma-ray emission by inverse Compton scattering by nonthermal electrons supplied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Masaaki Kusunose , Fumio Takahara