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We report the detection of high-energy gamma-ray signal towards the young star-forming region, W40. Using 10-year Pass 8 data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT), we extracted an extended gamma-ray excess region with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Xiao-Na Sun , Rui-Zhi Yang , Yun-Feng Liang , Fang-Kun Peng , Hai-Ming Zhang , Xiang-Yu Wang , Felix Aharonian

High-energy (HE) and very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations from the Galactic center (GC) detected extended emission correlated with the morphology of the central molecular zone (CMZ). Emission in both bands is expected to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Andrés Scherer , Jorge Cuadra

The origin of the inner Galactic emission, measured by COMPTEL with a flux of $\sim 10^{-2} ~{\rm MeV~ cm}^{-2}~ {\rm s}^{-1}~ {\rm sr}^{-1}$ in the 1-30 MeV energy range from the inner Galactic region, has remained unsettled since its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Naomi Tsuji , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Hiroki Yoneda , Reshmi Mukherjee , Hirokazu Odaka

We use 1+1/2 dimensional particle-in-cell plasma simulations to study the interaction of a relativistic, strongly magnetized wind with an ambient medium. Such an interaction is a plausible mechanism which leads to generation of cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. V. Smolsky , V. V. Usov

Excess GeV gamma rays from the Galactic Center (GC) have been measured with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The presence of the GC excess (GCE) appears to be robust with respect to changes in the diffuse galactic background modeling.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-24 Thomas Lacroix , Oscar Macias , Chris Gordon , Paolo Panci , Celine Boehm , Joseph Silk

We have used high-resolution spectra obtained with the multifiber facility FLAMES at the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory to derive kinematic properties and chemical abundances of Fe, O, Mg and Si for 89 stars in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-11-26 Emilio Lapenna , Alessio Mucciarelli , Livia Origlia , Francesco R. Ferraro

We present a new theoretical modeling to predict luminosity and spectrum of gamma-ray and neutrino emission of a star-forming galaxy, from star formation rate ($\psi$), gas mass ($M_{\rm gas}$), stellar mass, and disk size, taking into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Takahiro Sudoh , Tomonori Totani , Norita Kawanaka

Diffuse emission from the Milky Way dominates the gamma-ray sky. About 80% of the high-energy luminosity of the Milky Way comes from processes in the interstellar medium. The Galactic diffuse emission traces interactions of energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-25 T. A. Porter , S. W. Digel , I. A. Grenier , I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong

We present an analysis of dust grain emission in the diffuse interstellar medium of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). This study is motivated by the availability of 170 microns ISOPHOT data covering a large part of the SMC, with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Bot , F. Boulanger , G. Lagache , L. Cambresy , D. Egret

Reliable identification of the origin of the high-energy non-thermal emission from the Galactic Center (GC) is not achievable without adequate consideration of the ambient conditions such as the magnetic field configuration or gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-19 Mehmet Guenduez , Julia Becker Tjus , Katia Ferrière , Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar , Dominik J. Bomans

We analyze the first two years of data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope from the direction of the inner 10 degrees around the Galactic Center with the intention of constraining, or finding evidence of, annihilating dark matter. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Dan Hooper , Lisa Goodenough

This article compares the distribution of Ks magnitude of Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars obtained from the DENIS and 2MASS data with theoretical distributions. These have been constructed using up-to-date…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. -R. L. Cioni , L. Girardi , P. Marigo , H. J. Habing

We report the results of our study of the energy spectra and absolute fluxes of cosmic rays (CRs) in the Local Galaxy based on a five-year $\gamma$-ray observation with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of eight nearby giant molecular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-03 Rui-zhi Yang , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Felix Aharonian

We investigate numerically the contribution to the cosmic gamma-ray background from cosmic-rays ions and electrons accelerated at intergalactic shocks associated with cosmological structure formation. We show that the kinetic energy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Francesco Miniati

Stellar streams are excellent probes of the underlying gravitational potential in which they evolve. In this work, we fit dynamical models to five streams in the Southern Galactic hemisphere, combining observations from the Southern Stellar…

The statistical distribution of energies among particles responsible for long Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) emission is analyzed in light of recent results of the Fermi Observatory. The allsky flux, $F_{\gamma}$, recorded by the Gamma Ray Burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-27 David Eichler , Dafne Guetta , Martin Pohl

Low-frequency radio emission from the Large Magellanic Cloud~(LMC) is assumed to be dominated by nonthermal synchrotron radiation from energy loss of energetic $e^+/e^-$ in magnetic field. Two different kinds of sources of $e^+/e^-$, dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-26 Zhanfang Chen , Feng Huang , Taotao Fang

The bulk of the diffuse galactic gamma-ray emission above a few tens of GeV has been conventionally ascribed to the decay of neutral pions produced in cosmic-ray interactions with interstellar matter. Cosmic-ray electrons may, however, make…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. A. Porter , R. J. Protheroe

We have carried out sub-mm 12CO(J=3-2) observations of 6 giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) with the ASTE 10m sub-mm telescope at a spatial resolution of 5 pc and very high sensitivity. We have identified 32…

Recent observations have constrained the orbit and structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), implying a well-constrained pericentric passage about the Milky Way (MW) ~ 50 Myr ago. In this scenario, the LMC's gaseous disk has recently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 Munier Salem , Gurtina Besla , Greg Bryan , Mary Putman , Roeland P. van der Marel , Stephanie Tonnesen
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