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The diffuse gamma-ray sky revealed 'Bubbles' of emission above and below the Galactic Plane symmetric around the centre of the Milky Way with a height of 10 kpc in both directions. At present there is no convincing explanation for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Wim de Boer , Markus Weber

Data from the Fermi-LAT reveal two large gamma-ray bubbles, extending 50 degrees above and below the Galactic center, with a width of about 40 degrees in longitude. The gamma-ray emission associated with these bubbles has a significantly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-03 Meng Su , Tracy R. Slatyer , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

While blazars have long been one of the candidates in the search for the origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and astrophysical neutrinos, the BL Lac object TXS 0506+056 is the first extragalactic source that is correlated with some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-23 M. Cerruti , A. Zech , C. Boisson , G. Emery , S. Inoue , J. -P. Lenain

Fermi LAT has discovered two extended gamma-ray bubbles above and below the galactic plane. We propose that their origin is due to the energy release in the Galactic center (GC) as a result of quasi-periodic star accretion onto the central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-09-14 D. O. Chernyshov , K. -S. Cheng , V. A. Dogiel , C. M. Ko , W. -H. Ip , Y. Wang

The global contribution of unresolved gamma-ray point sources to the extragalactic gamma-ray background has been recently measured down to gamma-ray fluxes lower than those reached with standard source detection techniques, and by employing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Silvia Manconi , Michael Korsmeier , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo , Marco Regis , Hannes Zechlin

With the discovery of a high-energy neutrino flux in the 0.1 PeV to PeV range from beyond the Earth's atmosphere with the IceCube detector, neutrino astronomy has achieved a major breakthrough in the exploration of the high-energy universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Kappes

The production of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos is tightly linked to the emission of hadronic gamma-rays. I will discuss the recent observation of TeV to PeV neutrinos by the IceCube Cherenkov telescope in the context of gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-03 Markus Ahlers

Besides the neutrino source detected by IceCube, NGC 1068, the association of the IceCube-170922A neutrino with the blazar in a flaring state among several wavelengths (from radio up to high-energy (HE) gamma-rays), the site and mechanisms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-29 Antonio Galván , Nissim Fraija , Edilberto Aguilar-Ruiz , Jose Antonio de Diego Onsurbe , Maria G. Dainotti

A Galactic cosmic-ray transport model featuring non-homogeneous transport has been developed over the latest years. This setup is aimed at reproducing gamma-ray observations in different regions of the Galaxy (with particular focus on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-18 Pedro De la Torre Luque , Daniele Gaggero , Dario Grasso

Cosmic rays with energies beyond the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin `cutoff' at $\sim 4 \times 10^{10}$ GeV pose a conundrum, the solution of which requires either drastic revision of our astrophysical understanding, or new physics beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Subir Sarkar

Radio and gamma-ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN) are thought to share a common origin, related to the ejection phenomena in the vicinity of supermassive black holes. Thanks to its sensitivity, surveying capability, and broad…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-29 M. Giroletti , A. Reimer , L. Fuhrmann , V. Pavlidou , J. L. Richards

The stellar origin of gamma-ray bursts can be explained by the rapid release of energy in a highly collimated, extremely relativistic jet. This in turn appears to require a rapidly spinning highly magnetised stellar core that collapses into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Christopher A. Tout , Dayal T. Wickramasinghe , Herbert H. -B. Lau , J. E. Pringle , Lilia Ferrario

The sources responsible for the emission of high-energy ($\gtrsim$ 100 TeV) neutrinos detected by IceCube are still unknown. Among the possible candidates, active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets are often examined, since the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 F. Tavecchio , C. Righi , A. Capetti , P. Grandi , G. Ghisellini

We present a self-consistent interpretation of the of very-high-energy neutrino signal from the direction of the inner Galaxy, which is a part of the astronomical neutrino signal reported by IceCube. We demonstrate that an estimate of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-02 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz , C. Tchernin

The origin of the cosmic gamma-ray background at 1-20 MeV remains a mystery. We show that gamma-ray emission accompanying annihilation of 20 MeV dark matter particles explains most of the observed signal. Our model satisfies all of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kyungjin Ahn , Eiichiro Komatsu

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

Cosmic-ray interactions with interstellar gas and photons produce diffuse gamma-ray emission. In this talk we will review the current understanding of this diffuse emission and its relationship to the problem of the origin of cosmic rays.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. W. Digel , S. D. Hunter , I. V. Moskalenko , J. F. Ormes , M. Pohl

The propagation of particles accelerated at supernova remnant shocks and escaping the parent remnants is likely to proceed in a strongly non-linear regime, due to the efficient self-generation of Alfv\'en waves excited through streaming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 M. D'Angelo , G. Morlino , E. Amato , P. Blasi

One way to understand the nonthermal history of the universe is by establishing the origins of the unresolved and truly diffuse extragalactic gamma rays. Dim blazars and radio/gamma galaxies certainly make an important contribution to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Charles D. Dermer

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