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Gamma-ray observations have recently shifted the focus to higher and higher energies, with capable ground-based instruments enabling measurements in the TeV to PeV domain. While a clear prevalence of diffuse emission is observed in the GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-22 Kathrin Egberts , Constantin Steppa , Karol Pawel Peters

More than 90% of the Galactic gas-related gamma-ray emissivity above 1 GeV is attributed to the decay of neutral pions formed in collisions between cosmic rays and interstellar matter, with lepton-induced processes becoming increasingly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 C. D. Dermer , A. W. Strong , E. Orlando , L. Tibaldo

The detection of gamma-rays from the source HESS J1745-290 in the Galactic Center (GC) region with the H.E.S.S. array of Cherenkov telescopes in 2004 is presented. After subtraction of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the GC ridge, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 H. E. S. S. collaboration , : , F. A. Aharonian

The Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) experiment onboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) has provided the most precise measurements of the gamma-ray sky to date. The EGRET measurements of the diffuse emission across…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-05 B. M. Baughman , W. B. Atwood , R. P. Johnson , T. A. Porter , M. Ziegler

The Large High-Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) recently published measurements of diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission (DGE) in the 10-1000 TeV energy range. The measured DGE flux is significantly higher than the expectation from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-27 Ensheng Chen , Kun Fang , Xiaojun Bi

Recent experiments have measured the Galactic $\gamma$-ray diffuse emission up to PeV energies, opening a window to study acceleration of Galactic cosmic rays and their propagation up to the cosmic-ray knee. Furthermore, these observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-12 Manuel Rocamora , Pedro De La Torre Luque , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

The detection by the HESS atmospheric Cherenkov telescope of fifteen new sources from the Galactic plane makes it possible to estimate the contribution of unresolved point sources like those detected by HESS to the diffuse Galactic emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabrina Casanova , Brenda L. Dingus

Recent progress in pushing the sensitivity of the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique into the 10 mCrab regime has enabled first sensitive observations of the innermost few 100 pc of the Milky Way in Very High Energy (VHE; >100 GeV)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher van Eldik

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray background, as observed with EGRET on CGRO, exceeds the model predictions significantly above 1 GeV. This is particularly true for the inner Galaxy. We shall discuss here the contribution of the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Heinz Voelk

Cosmic Rays (CRs) interact with the diffuse gas, radiation, and magnetic fields in the interstellar medium (ISM) to produce electromagnetic emissions that are a significant component of the all-sky flux across a broad wavelength range. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 P. D. Marinos , G. P. Rowell , T. A. Porter , G. Jóhannesson

The all-sky survey in high-energy gamma rays (E > 30 MeV) carried out by the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory provides a unique opportunity to examine in detail the diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 Yu. A. Golubkov , M. Yu. Khlopov

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

The H.E.S.S. collaboration has reported a high-energy spherically symmetric diffuse gamma-ray emission in the inner 50 pc of the Milky Way, up to ~ 50 TeV. Here we propose a leptonic model which provides an alternative to the hadronic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-05 Thomas Lacroix , Joseph Silk , Emmanuel Moulin , Celine Boehm

The injection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in the intergalactic medium leads to the production of a GeV-TeV gamma-ray halo centered on the source location, through the production of a high electromagnetic component in the interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Kumiko Kotera , Denis Allard , Martin Lemoine

The diffuse TeV emission detected from the inner $\sim2^\circ$ of the Galaxy appears to be strongly correlated with the distribution of molecular gas along the Galactic ridge. Although it is not yet entirely clear whether the origin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Fulvio Melia , Marco Fatuzzo

We performed a spectro-morphological analysis of the diffuse emission in the Galactic center region with H.E.S.S. gamma-ray data. We relied on templates to model the diffuse emissions (the Galactic center ridge and the foreground component)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 J. Devin , A. Lemière , K. Streil , R. Terrier , C. van Eldik

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray flux between 0.1 and 1 PeV has recently been measured by the Tibet AS$\gamma$ Collaboration. The flux and spectrum are consistent with the decay of neutral pions from hadronuclear interactions between Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-01 Ke Fang , Kohta Murase

We study the high latitude (|b|>10) diffuse gamma-ray emission in the Galaxy in light of the recently published data from the Fermi collaboration at energies between 100 MeV and 100 GeV. The unprecedented accuracy in these measurements…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-16 I. Cholis , M. Tavakoli , C. Evoli , L. Maccione , P. Ullio

Cosmic rays (CRs) generate diffuse emission while interacting with the Galactic magnetic field (B-field), the interstellar gas and the radiation field. This diffuse emission extends from radio, microwaves, through X-rays, to high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Elena Orlando

"Diffuse" gamma rays consist of several components: truly diffuse emission from the interstellar medium, the extragalactic background, whose origin is not firmly established yet, and the contribution from unresolved and faint Galactic point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong , O. Reimer