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The abundance of accelerators and the ambient conditions make Cygnus X a natural laboratory for studying the life cycle of cosmic-rays (CRs). This naturally makes the Cygnus X complex a highly interesting source in neutrino astronomy, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Mehmet Guenduez , Julia Becker Tjus , Björn Eichmann , Francis Halzen

The Cygnus region hosts a giant molecular-cloud complex which actively forms massive stars. Interactions of cosmic rays with interstellar gas and radiation fields make it shine at gamma-ray energies. Several gamma-ray pulsars and other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 the Fermi LAT Collaboration

We overview high-energy neutrinos from galactic sources, transparent to their gamma-ray emission. We focus on young supernova remnants and in particular on RX J1713.7-3946, discussing expectations and upper bounds. We also consider the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Francesco Vissani , Felix Aharonian

Multi-messenger data suggest that radio galaxies (i.e. non-blazar active galaxies) are perhaps the most likely class of sources for the diffuse flux of high-energy neutrinos reported by the IceCube Collaboration. In this study, we consider…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-30 Carlos Blanco , Dan Hooper

Interactions of cosmic ray protons and nuclei in their sources and in the interstellar medium produce "hadronic" gamma-ray emission. Gamma-rays can also be of "leptonic" origin, i.e. originating from high-energy electrons accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-22 A. Neronov , D. Semikoz , D. Savchenko

The Cygnus region, which contains massive molecular and atomic clouds and young stars, is a promising Galactic neutrino source candidate. Cosmic rays transport in the region can produce neutrinos and $\gamma$-rays. Recently, the Large High…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Wenlian Li , Tian-Qi Huang , Donglian Xu , Huihai He

Galactic sites of acceleration of cosmic rays to energies of order 10^15 eV and higher, dubbed PeVatrons, reveal themselves by recently discovered gamma radiation of energies above 100 TeV. However, joint gamma-ray and neutrino production,…

Recent Milagro observations of the Cygnus region have revealed both diffuse TeV gamma-ray emission and a bright and extended TeV source, MGRO J2019+37, which seems to lack an obvious counterpart at other wavelengths. Additional study of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 John F. Beacom , Matthew D. Kistler

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

Recent ultrahigh energy gamma-ray observations by the HAWC up to 100 TeV and LHAASO observatories up to 1.4 PeV energies from the direction of Fermi-LAT 4FGL source 4FGL J2028.6+4110e (Cygnus Cocoon), are indicative of a hadronic origin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-07 Prabir Banik , Sanjay K. Ghosh

As one of the brightest galactic ${\gamma}$-ray sources, the Cygnus Cocoon superbubble has been observed by many detectors, such as $Fermi$-LAT, ARGO, HAWC, and LHAASO. However, the origin of $\gamma$-ray emission for the Cygnus Cocoon and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-31 Shihong Zhan , Wei Wang

Star-forming regions may play an important role in the life cycle of Galactic cosmic rays. Gamma-ray observations of Cygnus X have revealed the presence of an excess of hard-spectrum gamma-ray emission, possibly related to a cocoon of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 X. Astiasarain , L. Tibaldo. , P. Martin , J. Knödlseder , Q. Remy

The Cygnus region is a vast star-forming complex harbouring a population of powerful objects, including massive star clusters and associations, Wolf-Rayet stars, pulsars, and supernova remnants. The multi-wavelength picture is far from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-12 L. Haerer , T. Vieu , F. Schulze , C. J. K. Larkin , B. Reville

OB-associations and superbubbles being energetically essential galactic powerhouses are likely to be the important acceleration sites of galactic cosmic rays (CRs). The emission profile of gamma-ray sources related to superbubbles and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 A. M. Bykov , M. E. Kalyashova

While supernova remnants have been identified as the most likely sources of the galactic cosmic rays, no conclusive observational evidence for this association exists. We show here that IceCube has the possibility of producing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Francis Halzen , Aongus O'Murchadha

Recently the Fermi-LAT data have revealed two gamma-ray emitting bubble-shaped structures at the Galactic center. If the observed gamma rays have hadronic origin (collisions of accelerated protons), the bubbles must emit high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-06 Cecilia Lunardini , Soebur Razzaque

In light of the recent IceCube evidence for a flux of extraterrestrial neutrinos, we revisit the prospect of observing the sources of the Galactic cosmic rays. In particular, we update the predictions for the neutrino flux expected from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-20 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , F. Halzen , V. Niro

Cygnus X-3 (Cyg X-3) is a remarkable Galactic microquasar (X-ray binary) emitting from radio to $\gamma$-ray energies. In this paper, we consider hadronic model of emission of $\gamma$-rays above 100 MeV and their implications. We focus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 N. Sahakyan , G. Piano , M. Tavani

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range. These neutrinos have an isotropic distribution on the sky, and therefore, likely originate from extragalactic sources. Active Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Sreetama Goswami , George C. Privon , Marcos Santander

Detection of high-energy (~> 100 MeV) gamma rays by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) from a nova in the symbiotic binary system V407 Cygni has opened possibility of high-energy neutrino detection from this type of sources. Thermonuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-02 Soebur Razzaque , Pierre Jean , Olga Mena
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