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The extended gamma ray source MGRO J1908+06, discovered by the Milagro air shower detector in 2007, has been observed for about 4 years by the ARGO-YBJ experiment at TeV energies, with a statistical significance of 6.2 standard deviations.…

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The HAWC (High Altitude Water Cherenkov) collaboration recently published their 2HWC catalog, listing 39 very high energy (VHE; >100~GeV) gamma-ray sources based on 507 days of observation. Among these, there are nineteen sources that are…

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Radio continuum and near-infrared study of the MGRO J2019+37 region

(abridged) MGRO J2019+37 is an unidentified extended source of VHE gamma-rays originally reported by the Milagro Collaboration as the brightest TeV source in the Cygnus region. Its extended emission could be powered by either a single or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 J. M. Paredes , J. Marti , C. H. Ishwara-Chandra , J. R. Sanchez-Sutil , A. J. Munoz-Arjonilla , J. Moldon , M. Peracaula , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , V. Zabalza , V. Bosch-Ramon , P. Bordas , G. E. Romero , M. Ribo

Extreme TeV blazars and the intergalactic magnetic field

We study the four BL Lac objects (RGB J0152+017, 1ES 0229+200, 1ES 0347-121 and PKS 0548-322) detected in the TeV band but not present in the 1FGL catalogue of the Fermi/Large Area Telescope. We analize the 24 months of LAT data deriving…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Tavecchio , G. Ghisellini , G. Bonnoli , L. Foschini

The diffuse GeV-TeV $\gamma$-ray emission of the Cygnus region

Recently the Milagro experiment observed diffuse multi-TeV gamma-ray emission in the Cygnus region, which is significantly stronger than what predicted by the Galactic cosmic ray model. However, the sub-GeV observation by EGRET shows no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Xiao-Jun Bi , Tian-Lu Chen , Yue Wang , Qiang Yuan

Two Candidate Pulsar TeV Halos Identified from Property-Similarity Studies

TeV halos have been suggested as a common phenomenon associated with middle-aged pulsars. Based on our recent work on PSR~J0631+1036, which is the only known source positionally coincident with a hard TeV gamma-ray source and likely powers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-10 Dong Zheng , Zhongxiang Wang

A search for gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane in the longitude range between 37 deg and 43 deg

Using the HEGRA system of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, a region of the Galactic plane (-10 deg < b < 5 deg, 38 deg < l < 43 deg) was surveyed for TeV gamma-ray emission, both from point sources and of diffuse nature. The region…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 HEGRA-Collaboration , F. Aharonian

A search for VHE counterparts of galactic Fermi sources

Very high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-rays have been detected from a wide range of astronomical objects, such as SNRs, pulsars and pulsar wind nebulae, AGN, gamma-ray binaries, molecular clouds, and possibly star-forming regions as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-19 P. H. Thomas Tam , Stefan Wagner , Omar Tibolla , Ryan Chaves

HAWC and Fermi-LAT Detection of Extended Emission from the Unidentified Source 2HWC J2006+341

The discovery of the TeV point source 2HWC J2006+341 was reported in the second HAWC gamma-ray catalog. We present a follow-up study of this source here. The TeV emission is best described by an extended source with a soft spectrum. At GeV…

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Observation of TeV gamma rays from the Cygnus region with the ARGO-YBJ experiment

We report the observation of TeV gamma-rays from the Cygnus region using the ARGO-YBJ data collected from 2007 November to 2011 August. Several TeV sources are located in this region including the two bright extended MGRO J2019+37 and MGRO…

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Search of MeV-GeV counterparts of TeV sources with AGILE in pointing mode

Context. Known TeV sources detected by major Cerenkov telescopes are investigated to identify possible MeV-GeV gamma-ray counterparts. Aims. A systematic study of the known sources in the web-based TeVCat Catalog has been performed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-24 A. Rappoldi , F. Lucarelli , C. Pittori , F. Longo , P. W. Cattaneo , F. Verrecchia , M. Tavani , A. Bulgarelli , A. W. Chen , S. Colafrancesco , I. Donnarumma , A. Giuliani , A. Morselli , S. Sabatini , S. Vercellone

Spectrum and Morphology of the Two Brightest Milagro Sources in the Cygnus Region: MGRO J2019+37 and MGRO J2031+41

The Cygnus region is a very bright and complex portion of the TeV sky, host to unidentified sources and a diffuse excess with respect to conventional cosmic-ray propagation models. Two of the brightest TeV sources, MGRO J2019+37 and MGRO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 A. A. Abdo , B. T. Allen , T. Aune , D. Berley , E. Bonamente , G. E. Christopher , T. DeYoung , B. L. Dingus , R. W. Ellsworth , J. G. Galbraith-Frew , M. M. Gonzalez , J. A. Goodman , C. M. Hoffman , P. H. Huentemeyer , B. E. Kolterman , J. T. Linnemann , J. E. McEnery , A. I. Mincer , T. Morgan , P. Nemethy , J. Pretz , J. M. Ryan , P. M. Saz Parkinson , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , V. Vasileiou , G. P. Walker , D. A. Williams , G. B. Yodh

Strong support for the millisecond pulsar origin of the Galactic center GeV excess

Using gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope, various groups have identified a clear excess emission in the Inner Galaxy, at energies around a few GeV. This excess resembles remarkably well a signal from dark-matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-10 Richard Bartels , Suraj Krishnamurthy , Christoph Weniger

Discovery of a spatially extended GeV source in the vicinity of the TeV halo candidate 2HWC J1912+099: a TeV halo or supernova remnant ?

Observations by HAWC and Milagro have detected spatially extended TeV sources surrounding middle-aged ($t\sim100-400 \,{\rm kyr}$) pulsars like Geminga and PSR B0656+14, which have been named "TeV Halos", representing very extended TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-05 Hai-Ming Zhang , Shao-Qiang Xi , Ruo-Yu Liu , Yu-Liang Xin , Siming Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

Investigating the X-ray Emission from the Galactic TeV Gamma-ray Source MGRO J1908+06

MGRO J1908+06 is a bright, extended TeV gamma-ray source located near the Galactic plane. The TeV emission has previously been attributed to the pulsar wind nebula of the radio-faint gamma-ray pulsar PSR J1907+0602 discovered with Fermi.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-18 Dirk Pandel

Survey of nearby active galactic nuclei with the HAWC Observatory

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) has a wide field-of-view (FOV, $\sim$2sr) and a high duty cycle ($\sim$95\%), which make it a powerful survey and monitoring experiment for sources of TeV gamma rays. We present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-21 Zhixiang Ren , Robert Lauer , John A. J. Matthews , the HAWC Collaboration

Diffuse Gamma Rays from the Galactic Plane: Probing the "GeV Excess" and Identifying the "TeV Excess"

Pion decay gamma rays have long been recognized as a unique signature of hadronic cosmic rays and their interactions with the interstellar medium. We present a model-independent way of constraining this signal with observations of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tijana Prodanovic , Brian D. Fields , John F. Beacom

VERITAS Observations of Six Bright, Hard-Spectrum Fermi-LAT Blazars

We report on VERITAS very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) observations of six blazars selected from the Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog (1FGL). The gamma-ray emission from 1FGL sources was extrapolated up to the VHE band,…

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Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog

We present the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog (4FGL) of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first eight years of science data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 LAT collaboration

TeV Gamma Rays from Geminga and the Origin of the GeV Positron Excess

The Geminga pulsar has long been one of the most intriguing MeV-GeV gamma-ray point sources. We examine the implications of the recent Milagro detection of extended, multi-TeV gamma-ray emission from Geminga, finding that this reveals the…

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