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Cosmic rays interacting with gas and photon fields in the Galaxy produce interstellar gamma-ray emission (IGE), which accounts for almost 50% of the photons detected at gamma-ray energies. Models of this IGE have to be very accurate for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-28 E. Orlando

Most of the celestial gamma rays detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope originate from the interstellar medium when energetic cosmic rays interact with interstellar nucleons and photons.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 F. Acero , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Albert , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , T. J. Brandt , J. Bregeon , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , M. Caragiulo , P. A. Caraveo , J. M. Casandjian , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , J. Chiang , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , A. Cuoco , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , R. Desiante , S. W. Digel , L. Di Venere , P. S. Drell , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , E. C. Ferrara , W. B. Focke , A. Franckowiak , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , D. Hadasch , A. K. Harding , K. Hayashi , E. Hays , J. W. Hewitt , A. B. Hill , D. Horan , X. Hou , T. Jogler , G. Jóhannesson , T. Kamae , M. Kuss , D. Landriu , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , J. Li , L. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , D. Malyshev , A. Manfreda , P. Martin , M. Mayer , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , P. F. Michelson , N. Mirabal , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , G. Pivato , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , Q. Remy , N. Renault , M. Sánchez-Conde , M. Schaal , A. Schulz , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , F. Spada , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , A. W. Strong , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , H. Takahashi , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , L. Tibaldo , M. Tinivella , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , G. Vianello , M. Werner , K. S. Wood , M. Wood , G. Zaharijas , S. Zimmer

We present a new method to interpret the $\gamma$-ray data of our inner Galaxy as measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT). We train and test convolutional neural networks with simulated Fermi-LAT images based on models tuned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-29 Sascha Caron , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Luc Hendriks , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is produced by cosmic rays (CRs) interacting with the interstellar gas and radiation field. Measurements by the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-23 LAT Collaboration

Secondary nuclear production physics is receiving increased attention given the high-quality measurements of the gamma-ray emissivity of local interstellar gas between ~50 MeV and ~40 GeV, obtained with the Large Area Telescope on board the…

We describe an ongoing effort using the Fermi Large Area Telescope to search for gamma-ray emission from a source sample derived from published surveys of variable or transient galactic radio sources.

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-27 C. R. Shrader , D. J. Macomb

A spherical-symmetric gamma-ray emission from the central region of the Galaxy has been recently identified in Fermi-LAT data, and initially associated to dark matter particle annihilations. Guided by the evidence for a high gas density in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-13 Daniele Gaggero , Marco Taoso , Alfredo Urbano , Mauro Valli , Piero Ullio

FERMI-LAT is performing an all-sky gamma-ray survey from 30 MeV to $>$300 GeV with unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution. FERMI has detected high-energy gamma rays from the Moon and Sun since the first weeks of data taking. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 N. Giglietto

We describe the development of the model for interstellar gamma-ray emission that is the standard adopted by the LAT team and is publicly available. The model is based on a linear combination of templates for interstellar gas column density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Jean-Marc Casandjian

This paper summarizes recents results in gamma-ray astronomy, most of which were derived with data from ground-based gamma-ray detectors. Many of the contributions presented at this conference involve multiwavelength studies which combine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl

In this paper, the correlation between the gamma-ray and the radio bands is investigated. The results show that there is a closer correlation between the gamma-ray emission and the high frequency (1.3mm, 230GHz) radio emission for maximum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. Fan , G. Adam , G. Z. Xie , S. L. Cao , R. G. Lin , Y. Copin

The presence of relativistic electrons within the diffuse gas phase of galaxy clusters is now well established, but their detailed origin remains unclear. Cosmic ray protons are also expected to accumulate during the formation of clusters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-14 R. Adam , H. Goksu , S. Brown , L. Rudnick , C. Ferrari

The total cosmic-ray luminosity of the Galaxy is an important constraint on models of cosmic-ray generation. The diffuse high energy $\gamma$-ray and radio-synchrotron emissions of the Milky Way are used to derive this luminosity. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Dar , A. De Rújula

We report on measurements of the cosmic-ray induced gamma-ray emission of Earth's atmosphere by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The LAT has observed the Earth during its commissioning phase and with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-07 LAT collaboration

Context: The relation between Galactic cosmic-ray electrons, magnetic fields and synchrotron radiation. Aims: We exploit synchrotron radiation to constrain the low-energy interstellar electron spectrum, using various radio surveys and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-03 A. W. Strong , E. Orlando , T. R. Jaffe

Galaxy clusters are the most massive gravitationally bound structures in the Universe. Even if clusters are nearly virialized structures, they undergo merging processes, creating merging shocks, and suffer from feedback from galaxies and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-22 Judit Pérez-Romero , Mattia di Mauro , Rémi Adam , Miguel Á. Sánchez-Conde , Gabrijela Zaharijas

High-energy gamma rays of interstellar origin are produced by the interaction of cosmic-ray (CR) particles with the diffuse gas and radiation fields in the Galaxy. The main features of this emission are well understood and are reproduced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Troy A. Porter , Gudlaugur Johannesson , Igor V. Moskalenko

Galaxies obey a number of empirical correlations between their radio, {\gamma}-ray, and infrared emission, but the physical origins of these correlations remain uncertain. Here we use the CONGRuENTS model for broadband non-thermal emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-18 Matt A. Roth , Mark R. Krumholz , Roland M. Crocker , Todd A. Thompson

Diffuse gamma-ray emission arising from interactions of cosmic rays with the interstellar gas traces the densities of both of them throughout the Milky Way. We discuss the results obtained from the analysis of Fermi LAT observations in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Tibaldo , I. A. Grenier

We report an analysis of the interstellar gamma-ray emission from nearby molecular clouds Chamaeleon, R Coronae Australis (R CrA), and Cepheus and Polaris flare regions with the {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT). They are among the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Katsuhiro Hayashi , Tsunefumi Mizuno