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The dominant mechanisms underlying high-energy $\gamma$-ray emission from galaxies vary by galaxy type. In starbursts, a major contribution comes from neutral pion decay. This is driven by interactions between interstellar gas and hadronic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Ellis R. Owen , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Chung-Yue Hui , Tatsuki Fujiwara , Albert K. H. Kong

The presence of relativistic particles at the center of our galaxy is evidenced by the diffuse TeV emission detected from the inner $\sim$$2^\circ$ of the Galaxy. Although it is not yet entirely clear whether the origin of the TeV photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Marco Fatuzzo , Fulvio Melia

It's generally believed that young and rapidly rotating pulsars are important sites of particle's acceleration, in which protons can be accelerated to relativistic energy above the polar cap region if the magnetic moment is antiparallel to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Zhi-Xiong Li , Gui-Fang Lin , Wei-Wei Na

Gamma-ray observations have shown pulsars to be efficient converters of rotational energy into GeV photons and it is of wide-ranging interest to determine their contribution to the gamma-ray background. We arrive at flux predictions from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-26 Ryan M. O'Leary , Matthew D. Kistler , Matthew Kerr , Jason Dexter

The High-Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) has detected intense diffuse TeV emission correlated with the distribution of molecular gas along the galactic ridge at the centre of our Galaxy. Earlier HESS observations of this region had…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elizabeth Wommer , Fulvio Melia , Marco Fatuzzo

We present an X-ray study of the field containing the extended TeV source HESS J1834-087 using data obtained with the XMM-Newton telescope. Previously, the coincidence of this source with both the shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) W41 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 R. Mukherjee , E. V. Gotthelf , J. P. Halpern

Milagro and HAWC have detected extended TeV gamma-ray emission around nearby pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). Building on these discoveries, Linden et al. [1] identified a new source class -- TeV halos -- powered by the interactions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 Takahiro Sudoh , Tim Linden , John F. Beacom

The Galactic Center (GC) has been long known to host gamma-ray emission detected to >10 TeV. HESS data now points to two plausible origins: the supermassive black hole (perhaps with >PeV cosmic rays and neutrinos) or high-energy electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-29 Matthew D. Kistler

In recent years, the number of known sources emitting very- and ultra-high-energy gamma-rays has increased significantly thanks to facilities such as LHAASO and HAWC. Many of the observed sources are still unidentified or poorly constrained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Michela Rigoselli , Sarah Recchia , Alberto Bonollo , Silvia Crestan , Giada Peron , Andrea Giuliani , Sandro Mereghetti

Recently, the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) collaboration reported the discovery of the TeV halo around the Geminga pulsar. The TeV emission is believed to originate from inverse Compton scattering of pulsar-injected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-26 Ruo-Yu Liu , Chong Ge , Xiao-Na Sun , Xiang-Yu Wang

TeV halos have been suggested as a common phenomenon associated with middle-aged pulsars. Based on our recent work on PSR~J0631+1036, which is the only known source positionally coincident with a hard TeV gamma-ray source and likely powers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-10 Dong Zheng , Zhongxiang Wang

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory has reported the discovery of TeV gamma-ray emission extending several degrees around the positions of Geminga and B0656+14 pulsars. Assuming these gamma rays are produced by inverse Compton scattering off…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Salesa Greus , S. Casanova , B. Dingus , R. Lopez-Coto , H. Zhou

Observations by HAWC and Milagro have detected bright and spatially extended TeV gamma-ray sources surrounding the Geminga and Monogem pulsars. We argue that these observations, along with a substantial population of other extended TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Tim Linden , Katie Auchettl , Joseph Bramante , Ilias Cholis , Ke Fang , Dan Hooper , Tanvi Karwal , Shirley Weishi Li

Pulsars are observed to emit bright and spatially extended emission at multi-TeV energies. Although such "TeV halos" appear to be an approximately universal feature of middle-aged pulsars, there remains much to be understood about these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-19 Dan Hooper , Elena Pinetti , Anastasia Sokolenko

It has been suggested that the GeV excess, observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, might originate from a population of millisecond pulsars that formed in globular clusters. With this in mind, we employ the publicly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Recent studies suggest that pulsars could be strong sources of TeV muon neutrinos provided positive ions are accelerated by pulsar polar caps to PeV energies. In such a situation muon neutrinos are produced through the delta resonance in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-03 A. Bhadra , R. K. Dey

The recent detection of TeV gamma-radiation from the direction of the Galactic Center within several arc-minutes around Sgr A* is the first model-independent evidence of existence of high energy particle accelerator(s) in the central 10 pc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Aharonian , A. Neronov

Recent observations, particularly from the HESS Collaboration, have revealed rich Galactic populations of TeV gamma-ray sources, including a collection unseen in other wavelengths. Many of these gamma-ray spectra are well measured up to ~10…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthew D. Kistler , John F. Beacom

Pulsed emission from gamma-ray pulsars originates inside the magnetosphere, from radiation by charged particles accelerated near the magnetic poles or in the outer gaps. In polar cap models, the high energy spectrum is cut off by magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alice K. Harding

The multi-TeV $\gamma$-rays from the Galactic Center (GC) have a cutoff at tens of TeV, whereas the diffuse emission has no such cutoff, which is regarded as an indication of PeV proton acceleration by the HESS experiment. It is important…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 Yi-Qing Guo , Zhen Tian , Zhen Wang , Hai-Jin Li , Tian-Lu Chen