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The interstellar medium of galaxies, with temperatures reaching several million degrees, provides a pivotal perspective for understanding the physical and chemical properties of star formation, galactic evolution, and their associated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 Chunyi Zhang , Junfeng Wang

Cosmic-ray interactions with interstellar gas produces both 6Li, which accumulates in the interstellar medium (ISM), and $\pi^0$ mesons, which decay to gamma-rays which propagate throughout the cosmos. Local 6Li abundances and extragalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Prodanovic , B. D. Fields

Hot ionized interstellar medium interlinks star formation and stellar feedback processes, redistributing energy, momentum, and material throughout galaxies. We use X-ray data from $Chandra$ to extract the hot gas emission from 78 of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-01 Chunyi Zhang , Junfeng Wang

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) are a fundamental non-thermal component of the interstellar medium (ISM). Understanding the transport of super-high-energy particles is essential for interpreting observations of Galactic PeVatrons. Classical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Yue Hu

It has recently been shown that the highest energy cosmic rays (CRs) may originate in the same cosmological objects producing $\gamma$-ray bursts. This model requires the presence of intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMF) to delay the arrival…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Eli Waxman , Jordi Miralda-Escude

Diffuse emission is produced in energetic cosmic ray (CR) interactions, mainly protons and electrons, with the interstellar gas and radiation field and contains the information about particle spectra in distant regions of the Galaxy. It may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Igor V. Moskalenko , Andrew W. Strong , Seth W. Digel , Troy A. Porter

We consider a possibility of identification of sources of cosmic rays (CR) of the energy above 1 TeV via observation of degree-scale extended gamma-ray emission which traces the locations of recent sources in the Galaxy. Such emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz

Low-frequency radio observations of diffuse synchrotron radiation offer a unique vantage point for investigating the intricate relationship between gas and magnetic fields in the formation of structures within the Galaxy, spanning from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-29 Andrea Bracco , Marco Padovani , Daniele Galli

An important contribution to the gamma-ray emission of our Galaxy is the Galactic Diffuse emission. We present specific developments within the PICARD code for modeling of Galactic cosmic ray propagation that are relevant for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-26 Felix Niederwanger , Olaf Reimer , Ralf Kissmann , Richard Tuffs

Supernovae (SNe) exploding in a dense circumstellar medium (CSM) are predicted to accelerate cosmic rays in collisionless shocks and emit GeV gamma rays and TeV neutrinos on a time scale of several months. Here we summarize the results of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 A. Franckowiak , K. Murase , E. O. Ofek

Diffuse galactic gamma-ray emission is produced by the interaction of cosmic rays (CRs) with the interstellar environment. The study of gamma-ray emission is therefore a powerful tool to investigate the origin of CRs and the processes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 N. Marchili , G. Piano , M. Cardillo , A. Giuliani , S. Molinari , M. Tavani

The Galactic gamma-ray diffuse emission (GDE) is emitted by cosmic rays (CRs), ultra-relativistic protons and electrons, interacting with gas and electromagnetic radiation fields in the interstellar medium. Here we present the analysis of…

We study transport of GeV cosmic rays (CRs) in a set of high-resolution TIGRESS magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the star-forming interstellar medium (ISM). Our local disk patch models sample a wide range of gas surface densities,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-04 Ronan Hix , Lucia Armillotta , Eve Ostriker , Chang-Goo Kim

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) play a crucial role in galaxy formation and evolution by altering gas dynamics and chemistry across multiple scales. Typical numerical simulations of CR transport assume a constant diffusion coefficient for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-16 Sarah Thiele , Romain Teyssier

Brightness distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is studied in detail under the assumption that GRB rate is related to cosmic star formation rate. The two populations of the long- and short-duration bursts in the 4B BATSE catalog are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Tomonori Totani

While supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely thought to be powerful cosmic-ray accelerators, indirect evidence comes from a small number of well-studied cases. Here we systematically determine the gamma-ray emission detected by the Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-14 F. de Palma , T. J. Brandt , J. W. Hewitt , G. Johannesson , L. Tibaldo

Because cosmic rays are charged particles scrambled by magnetic fields, combining direct measurements with other observations is crucial to understanding their origin and propagation. As energetic particles traverse matter and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 L. Tibaldo

The large-scale diffuse $\gamma-$ray flux observed by Fermi-LAT in the 1-100 GeV energy range, parameterized as $\propto E^{-\Gamma}$, has a spectral index $\Gamma$ that depends on the distance from the Galactic center. This feature, if…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-25 Vittoria Vecchiotti , Giulia Pagliaroli , Francesco Lorenzo Villante

Despite tantalizing evidence that supernova remnants (SNRs) are the source of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs), including the recent detection of a spectral signature of hadronic gamma-ray emission from two SNRs, their origin in aggregate remains…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 T. J. Brandt , F. Acero , F. de Palma , J. W. Hewitt , M. Renaud

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