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Cosmic-ray (CR) physics has been a prolific field of research for over a century. The open problems related to CR acceleration, transport and modulation are deeply connected with the indirect searches for particle dark matter (DM). In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-12 Daniele Gaggero

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

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

It is well known that the diffuse gamma-rays are produced by the collisions between the galactic cosmic rays with the stellar matter (Hayakawa-Morrison Hypothesis). In this paper the author tries to estimate the contribution of star flares…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-08 Y. Muraki

The secondary/primary cosmic-ray ratios and the diffuse backgrounds of gamma rays and neutrinos provide us with complementary information about the transport of Galactic cosmic rays~(CRs). We used the recent measurement of the diffuse gamma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-13 Antonio Ambrosone , Carmelo Evoli , Benedikt Schroer , Pasquale Blasi

Research in cosmic rays is now nearly a century old, but most of the fundamental questions in this field remain unanswered, on the other hand the perspectives of future studies in the next decade are very bright. New detectors will provide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Paolo Lipari

We discuss the relation between cosmic-ray induced interstellar gamma-ray and radio emission from our Galaxy, and emphasize the importance of their parallel study. We give an overview of results from Fermi-LAT on the interstellar gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Elena Orlando , Andrew W. Strong

A recent detection of spatially extended gamma-ray emission in the central region of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) has led to several possible explanations being put forth, including dark matter annihilation and millisecond pulsars. Another…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 Alex McDaniel , Tesla Jeltema , Stefano Profumo

Recent results obtained by analyzing diffuse gamma-ray emission detected by Fermi-LAT show a substantial variation of the CR spectrum as a function of the distance from the Galactic Center. For energies up to tens of GeV, the CR proton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 G. Morlino

The propagation of cosmic rays (CRs) in turbulent interstellar magnetic fields is typically described as a spatial diffusion process. This formalism predicts only a small deviation from an isotropic CR distribution in the form of a dipole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-22 Markus Ahlers

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

This is the report on the cosmic ray direct track of the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021), broadly covering the contributions relating to charged cosmic rays (CRs) of Galactic origin. The contributions highlighted here…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Philipp Mertsch

Cosmic rays in the inner solar system are subject to deflection by both the geomagnetic and interplanetary magnetic fields, and simultaneously interact with the Sun's photosphere resulting in the production of gamma rays. This phenomenon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-15 Mehr Un Nisa

The origin of the X-ray emission from the central region of the Galaxy has remained a mystery, despite extensive study over the past two decades. A fundamental question is the relative contribution of the point-source and diffuse components…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Q. D. Wang , E. V. Gotthelf , C. C. Lang

Diffuse gamma-ray emission has long been established as the most prominent feature in the GeV sky. Although the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique has been successful in revealing a large population of discrete TeV gamma-ray sources, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 K. Egberts , F. Brun , S. Casanova , W. Hofmann , M. de Naurois , O. Reimer , Q. Weitzel , Y. Fukui

Cosmic rays (CRs) and magnetic fields may be dynamically important in driving large-scale galactic outflows from rapidly star-forming galaxies. We construct two-dimensional axisymmetric models of the local starburst and super-wind galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 Benjamin J. Buckman , Tim Linden , Todd A. Thompson

We will review the main channels of gamma ray emission due to the acceleration and propagation of cosmic rays, discussing the cases of both galactic and extra-galactic cosmic rays and their connection with gamma rays observations.

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Roberto Aloisio

The spectral data on the diffuse Galactic gamma-rays, at medium and high latitudes (|b| > 10) and energies of 1-100 GeV, recently published by the Fermi Collaboration are used to produce a novel study on the gamma-ray emissivity in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-28 Maryam Tavakoli , Ilias Cholis , Carmelo Evoli , Piero Ullio

The LHAASO collaboration has recently released the spectrum and the angular distribution of the gamma-ray Galactic diffuse emission from 1 TeV to 1 PeV measured with the Kilometer-2 Array (KM2A) and the Water Cherenkov Detector Array…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Pedro De La Torre Luque , Daniele Gaggero , Dario Grasso , Antonio Marinelli , Manuel Rocamora

The diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Milky Way serves as a crucial probe for understanding the propagation and interactions of cosmic rays within our galaxy. The Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 10 TeV and 1 PeV has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-07 Jiayin He , Houdun Zeng , Yi Zhang , Qiang Yuan , Rui Zhang , Jun Li