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The observations of high energy $\gamma$-ray emission from the Galactic center (GC) by HESS, and recently by Fermi, suggest the cosmic ray acceleration in the GC and possibly around the supermassive black hole. In this work we propose a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-16 Yi-Qing Guo , Qiang Yuan , Cheng Liu , Ai-Feng Li

Recent data from ATIC, CREAM and PAMELA indicate that the cosmic ray energy spectra of protons and nuclei exhibit a remarkable hardening at energies above 100 GeV per nucleon. We propose that the hardening is an interstellar propagation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-29 N. Tomassetti

Supernova remnants are widely believed to be a principal source of galactic cosmic rays, produced by diffusive shock acceleration in the environs of the remnant's expanding shock. This review discusses recent modelling of how such energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew G. Baring

The nature of the knee in the all-particle spectrum of cosmic rays remains subject of much investigation, especially in the aftermath of recent measurements claiming the detection of a knee-like feature in the spectrum of the light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-13 Carlo Mascaretti , Pasquale Blasi , Carmelo Evoli

The diffuse gamma-ray emission between 10 and 1000 TeV from the Galactic plane was recently measured by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO). These observations will help tremendously in constraining the propagation and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-06 Rui Zhang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Zhi-Hui Xu , Shiping Zhao , Qiang Yuan

We report the likely GeV $\gamma$-ray emission from the composite supernova remnant (SNR) COMP G327.1+1.1 by analyzing $\sim$12.2 years of the \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope (\textit{Fermi}-LAT) Pass 8 data. We found the features of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-19 Yunchuan Xiang , Yi Xing , Zejun Jiang

The possibility of estimating the mass composition of primary cosmic rays above the knee of its energy spectrum through the study of high energy gamma rays, muons and neutrinos produced in the interactions of cosmic rays with the solar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-05 Prabir Banik , Biplab Bijay , Samir K. Sarkar , Arunava Bhadra

Recently, LHAASO detected a gamma-ray emission extending beyond $100\,\rm{TeV}$ from 4 sources associated to powerful microquasars. We propose that such sources are the main Galactic PeVatrons and investigate their contribution to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-03 Samy Kaci , Gwenael Giacinti , Felix Aharonian , Jie-Shuang Wang

The High-Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) has detected diffuse TeV emission correlated with the distribution of molecular gas along the Ridge at the Galactic Center. Diffuse, non-thermal emission is also seen by the Fermi large area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Oscar Macias , Chris Gordon , Roland Crocker , Stefano Profumo

Recent direct measurements of Galactic cosmic ray spectra by balloon/space-borne detectors reveal spectral hardenings of all major nucleus species at rigidities of a few hundred GV. The all-sky diffuse gamma-ray emissions measured by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Yi-Qing Guo , Qiang Yuan

The extragalactic sources of ultra-high-energy (E > 4x10^19 eV) cosmic rays that make a small contribution to the flux of particles recorded by ground-based arrays are discussed. We show that cosmic rays from such sources can produce a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-09 Anna Uryson

One prediction of particle acceleration in the supernova remnants in the magnetic wind of exploding Wolf Rayet and Red Super Giant stars is that the final spectrum is a composition of a spectrum $E^{-7/3}$ and a polar cap component of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-01 Peter L. Biermann , Julia K. Becker , Jens Dreyer , Athina Meli , Eun-Suk Seo , Todor Stanev

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

We reconsider the scenario in which the knee in the cosmic ray spectrum is explained as due to a change in the escape mechanism of cosmic rays from the Galaxy from one dominated by transverse diffusion to one dominated by drifts. We solve…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Julián Candia , Esteban Roulet , Luis N. Epele

Recent measurements of cosmic ray electron energy spectra suggest that above 10 GeV there may be deviations from a single power law spectrum. There are hints (ATIC) for a bump occurring between 100 GeV and 1TeV, meaning that there might be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 Andrea Tartari , Massimo Gervasi , Giorgio Sironi , Mario Zannoni , Sebastiano Spinelli

Diffuse emission in gamma-rays and neutrinos are produced by the interaction of cosmic rays with the interstellar medium. Below some hundreds of TeV, the sources of these cosmic rays are most likely Galactic. Hence, observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Anton Stall , Philipp Mertsch

Novae are now firmly established as a high-energy (>100 MeV) gamma-ray source class by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). In symbiotic binary systems such as V407 Cyg 2010, there is a firm theoretical framework for the production of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-05 C. C. Cheung , P. Jean , S. N. Shore , J. E. Grove , M. Leising

Gamma-ray data from Fermi-LAT show a bi-lobular structure extending up to 50 degrees above and below the Galactic centre, coincident with a possibly related structure in the ROSAT X-ray map which presumably originated in some energy release…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-04 Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

We have developed a model that explains cosmic rays with energies E between \~0.3 PeV and the energy of the second knee at E_2 ~ 3*10^{17} eV as originating from a recent Galactic gamma-ray burst (GRB) that occurred ~1 Myr ago within 1 kpc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Atoyan , C. D. Dermer

Intriguing sub-TeV tails in the pulsed $\gamma$-ray emission from the Crab pulsar have been recently discovered by the MAGIC and VERITAS Collaborations. They were not clearly predicted by any pulsar model. It is at present argued that this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-12 W. Bednarek