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Multiwavelength radiation from relativistic particles accelerated at shocks in novae and other astrophysical sources carries a wealth of information about the outflow properties and the microphysical processes at work near the shocks. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 Indrek Vurm , Brian D. Metzger

There are several types of Galactic sources that can potentially accelerate charged particles up to GeV and TeV energies. We present here the results of our observations of the source class of gamma-ray binaries and the subclass of binary…

The discovery of novae as sources of ~GeV gamma-rays highlights the key role of shocks and relativistic particle acceleration in these transient systems. Although there is evidence for a spectral cut-off above energies ~1-100 GeV at…

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The undisputed galactic origin of cosmic rays at energies below the so-called knee implies an existence of a nonthemal population of galactic objects which effectively accelerate protons and nuclei to TeV-PeV energies. The distinct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Felix Aharonian

The outbursts of novae are among the strongest explosions in the Universe. The eruptions involve physical processes that span the whole electromagnetic spectrum, demanding multifrequency observations. The photometric and spectroscopic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-02 Rosa Poggiani

The interaction between a supernova ejecta and the circum-stellar medium drives a strong shock wave which accelerates particles (i.e., electrons and protons). The radio and X-ray emission observed after the supernova explosion constitutes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 Shao-Qiang Xi , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang , Rui-Zhi Yang , Qiang Yuan , Bing Zhang

Using a simple accelerating model and an assumption that $\gamma$-rays originate from $p-p$ collisions for a $\pi^0$ model, we investigate $\gamma$-ray sources like V407 Cygni in symbiotic stars. The upper limit of their occurrence rate in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 Guoliang Lu , Chunhua Zhu , Zhaojun Wang , Wensheng Huo , Yuangui Yang

There is a growing new class of young spin-down powered pulsars called GeV-quiet soft gamma-ray pulsar; (1) spectral turnover appears around~10MeV, (2) the X-ray spectra of below 20 keV can be described by power law with photon index around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Y. Wang , C. W. Ng , J. Takata , Gene C. K. Leung , K. S. Cheng

Type Ia supernovae are thought to be the outcome of the thermonuclear explosion of a carbon/oxygen white dwarf in a close binary system. Their optical light curve is powered by thermalized gamma-rays produced by the radioactive decay of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-11 J. Isern , E. Bravo , P. Jean

Massive protostars have associated bipolar outflows with velocities of hundreds of km/s. Such outflows produce strong shocks when interact with the ambient medium leading to regions of non-thermal radio emission. Under certain conditions,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-07 Gustavo E. Romero , Anabella T. Araudo , Valenti Bosch-Ramon , Josep M. Paredes

Globular clusters (GCs) with their ages of the order of several billion years contain many final products of evolution of stars such as: neutron stars, white dwarfs and probably also black holes. These compact objects can be at present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 W. Bednarek

We study the gamma-ray emissions from an outer-magnetospheric potential gap around a rotating neutron star. Migratory electrons and positrons are accelerated by the electric field in the gap to radiate copious gamma-rays via curvature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Hirotani

Kes 41 is among the Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) proposed to be physically linked to $\gamma$-ray emission at GeV energies. Although not conclusively, the nature of the $\gamma$-ray photons has been explained by means of hadronic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Leonardo Supan , Gabriela Castelletti , Alberto D. Supanitsky , Michael G. Burton

A novel $\gamma$-ray supernova remnant (SNR) G206.9+2.3 is first reported in this study. We arrived at this conclusion after analyzing 12.4 years of observation data of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT). The photon flux of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-21 Yunchuan Xiang , Zejun Jiang

A signal of high-energy extraterrestrial neutrinos from unknown source(s) was recently discovered by the IceCube experiment. Neutrinos are always produced together with gamma-rays, but the gamma-ray flux from extragalactic sources is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 A. Neronov , M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz

According to radiative models, radio galaxies and quasars are predicted to produce gamma rays from the earliest stages of their evolution. Exploring their high-energy emission is crucial for providing information on the most energetic…

The recently launched satellite, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, is expected to find out if cosmic-ray (CR) protons are generated from supernova remnants (SNRs), especially RX J1713.7-3946, by observing the GeV-to-TeV gamma-rays. The GeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-17 Ryo Yamazaki , Kazunori Kohri , Hideaki Katagiri

The most energetic part of the electromagnetic spectrum bears the purest clues to the synthesis of atomic nuclei in the universe. The decay of radioactive species, synthesized in stellar environments and ejected into the interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam , Reuven Ramaty , Michel Casse

Gamma-ray bursts have the potential to produce the particle energies (up to $10^{21}$ eV) and the energy budget ($10^{44} \rm{erg yr^{-1} Mpc^{-3}}$) to accommodate the spectrum of the highest energy cosmic rays; on the other hand, there is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 J. K. Becker , F. Halzen , A. O'Murchadha , M. Olivo

Gamma-ray lines from radioactive isotopes, ejected into interstellar space by cosmic nucleosynthesis events, are observed with new space telescopes. The Compton Observatory had provided a sky survey for the isotopes 56Co, 22Na, 44Ti, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roland Diehl