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If the supermassive black hole Sgr A* at the center of the Milky Way grew adiabatically from an initial seed embedded in an NFW dark matter (DM) halo, then the DM profile near the hole has steepened into a spike. We calculate the dramatic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-15 Brian D. Fields , Stuart L. Shapiro , Jessie Shelton

Compared to the well-studied infrared and radio domains, galaxy emission in the millimeter (mm) - centimeter (cm) range has been less observed. In this domain, galaxy emission consists of thermal dust, free-free and synchrotron emissions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-28 L. Correia , C. Bot , J. Chastenet , A. Rymar , R. Paladini , M. Bethermin , D. Ismail , K. A. Lutz , J. -P. Bernard , A. Hughes , D. Paradis , N. Ysard

The Galactic centre - as the closest galactic nucleus - holds both intrinsic interest and possibly represents a useful analogue to star-burst nuclei which we can observe with orders of magnitude finer detail than these external systems. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Roland M. Crocker

Diffuse VHE gamma radiation from the Galactic Centre ridge observed by the H.E.S.S. telescope has been convincingly linked with the propagation of recently accelerated cosmic rays that interact with molecular hydrogen clouds during their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-29 S. Dimitrakoudis , A. Mastichiadis , A. Geranios

BeppoSAX observations of the nearby archetypical starburst galaxies NGC253 and M82 are presented. Spectral analysis shows that the 2-10 keV spectra of both galaxies, extracted from the central 4' regions, are best fitted by a thermal…

Diffuse hot gas can be traced effectively by its X-ray absorption and emission. We present a joint-analysis of these tracers to characterize the spatial and temperature distributions of the Galactic hot gas along the sight-line toward the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yangsen Yao , Q. Daniel Wang

Accreting black holes are believed to be sites of possible particle acceleration with favorable conditions also for effective gamma-ray production. However, because of photon-photon pair production, only low energy (MeV) gamma-rays can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Felix Aharonian , Andrii Neronov

Strong iron fluorescence at 6.4 keV and hard-X-ray emissions from giant molecular clouds in the Galactic center region have been interpreted as reflections of a past outburst of the Sgr A* supermassive black hole. Careful treatment of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-10-11 Hirokazu Odaka , Felix Aharonian , Shin Watanabe , Yasuyuki Tanaka , Dmitry Khangulyan , Tadayuki Takahashi

Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission is produced by the interaction of high-energy cosmic rays propagating through the Milky Way with interstellar gas and radiation fields. Its measurement can provide crucial insights into the acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 Georg Schwefer

The Galactic Center region is expected to host the largest density of Dark Matter (DM) particles within the Milky Way. Then a relatively large gamma-ray signal would be expected from the possible DM particles annihilation (or decay). We are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Vincenzo Vitale , Aldo Morselli

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS), the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov Telescope (MAGIC), and the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) have observed diffuse gamma-ray emission strongly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Andrés Scherer , Jorge Cuadra , Franz E. Bauer

A set of diffuse interstellar clouds in the inner Galaxy within a few hundred pc of the Galactic plane has been observed at an angular resolution of ~1 arcmin combining data from the NRAO Green Bank Telescope and the Very Large Array. At…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Yurii Pidopryhora , Felix J. Lockman , John M. Dickey , Michael P. Rupen

We report the first detection of high-energy X-ray (E>10 keV) emission from the Galactic Center non-thermal filament G359.89-0.08 (Sgr A-E) using data acquired with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). The bright filament was…

We analyzed data from HaloSat observations for five fields in the Galactic disk located far away from the Galactic center (135$^{\circ}$ $<$ $l$ $<$ 254$^{\circ}$) to understand the nature of soft X-ray energy emission in the Galactic disk.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-06 Kazuki Ampuku , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Koki Sakuta , Philip Kaaret , Daniel M. LaRocca , Lorella Angelini

We present the analysis of the high energy emission of the Galactic black hole binary GX 339-4 in a low/hard state at the beginning of its 2004 outburst. The data from 273 ks of INTEGRAL observations, spread over 4 weeks, are analyzed,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Joinet , E. Jourdain , J. Malzac , J. P. Roques , S. Corbel , J. Rodriguez , E. Kalemci

We present the result of a study of the X-ray emission from the Galactic Centre (GC) Molecular Clouds (MC) within 15 arcmin from Sgr A*. We use XMM-Newton data (about 1.2 Ms of observation time) spanning about 8 years. The MC spectra show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Gabriele Ponti , Regis Terrier , Andrea Goldwurm , Guillaume Belanger , Guillaume Trap

The Galactic halo is supposed to form from merging with nearby dwarf galaxies. In order to probe different components of the Galactic halo, we have applied the Gaussian Mixture Models method to a selected sample of metal poor stars with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-23 Xilong Liang , Yuqin Chen , Jingkun Zhao , Gang Zhao

We revisit the idea that the Galactic center (GC) is the dominant source of Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs), based on a series of new observational evidence. A unified model is proposed to explain the new phenomena of GCRs and $\gamma$-rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-24 Yiqing Guo , Zhaoyang Feng , Qiang Yuan , Cheng Liu , Hongbo Hu

The origin of the high-energy gamma-ray emission from the Milky Way center is still unclear and debated because of the impact of systematics afflicting the measurements from current experiments. Several theories and phenomenological models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-30 Sofia Ventura

The diffuse hard X-ray emission that fills the Galactic center, bulge, and ridge is believed to arise from unresolved populations of X-ray binary systems. However, the identity of the dominant class of accreting objects in each region…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-30 Kerstin Perez , Roman Krivonos , Daniel R. Wik