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We report the discovery of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission of the binary system PSR B1259-63/SS 2883 of a radio pulsar orbiting a massive, luminous Be star in a highly eccentric orbit. The observations around the 2004 periastron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Aharonian

Located in a dense complex environment, W51C provides an excellent scenario to probe accelerated protons in SNRs and their interaction with surrounding target material. Here we report the observation of extended Very High Energy (VHE)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Julian Krause , Emiliano Carmona , Ignasi Reichardt

The gamma-ray binary system LS I +61 303 was studied in great detail in VHE gamma-rays in the last years by the MAGIC telescope. The VHE emission of the system exhibited a prominent periodic outburst in the orbital phases 0.6-0.7 between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Jogler , O. Blanch

Very high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-rays have been detected from a wide range of astronomical objects, such as pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), supernova remnants (SNRs), giant molecular clouds, gamma-ray binaries, the Galactic Center,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 P. H. Thomas Tam , Stefan Wagner , Omar Tibolla , Ryan Chaves

Non-thermal variable emission from radio to very-high energy gamma rays (VHE; >100 GeV) are the prime characteristics of gamma-ray binaries. The underlying physical processes leading to the observed VHE emission are not well understood, as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Gernot Maier

Three binaries are now established sources of emission at very high energies (>1e11 eV). They are composed of a massive star and a compact object. The emission can be due to the interaction of the relativistic wind from a young ms pulsar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guillaume Dubus

MAGIC is an instrument composed of a pair of telescopes for gamma- ray and cosmic-ray astrophysics in the TeV range. It is operating for more than a decade now, and is one of the current best performing instruments in this field,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Michele Doro

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

Cosmic rays (protons and other atomic nuclei) are believed to gain energies of petaelectronvolts (PeV) and beyond at astrophysical particle accelerators called 'PeVatrons' inside our Galaxy. Although a characteristic feature of a PeVatron…

We report on detailed analysis of the hard X-ray and GeV gamma-ray spectra of LS 5039, one of the brightest gamma-ray binary system in the Galaxy. The NuSTAR observation covering its entire orbit in 2016 allowed us for the first time to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Hiroki Yoneda , Dmitry Khangulyan , Teruaki Enoto , Kazuo Makishima , Kairi Mine , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Tadayuki Takahashi

The detection of the hyper-bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) 221009A enables us to explore the nature of GRB emission and the origin of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays. We analyze the ${\it Fermi}$-LAT data and investigate GeV-TeV emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-18 B. Theodore Zhang , Kohta Murase , Kunihito Ioka , Deheng Song , Chengchao Yuan , Péter Mészáros

Located in a dense complex environment, W51C provides an excellent scenario to probe accelerated protons in SNRs and their interaction with surrounding target material. Here we report the observation of extended Very High Energy (VHE)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 E. Carmona , J. Krause , I. Reichardt

Since the discovery of cosmic rays (CRs) over a century ago, their origin remains an open question. Galactic CRs with energy up to the knee ($10^{15}$ eV) are considered to originate from supernova remnants, but this scenario has recently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-10 D. Kantzas , S. Markoff , M. Lucchini , C. Ceccobello , V. Grinberg , R. M. T. Connors , P. Uttley

Compact binary mergers, detected in gravitational waves since 2015, are candidate sources for astrophysical neutrinos in the GeV regime from proton-proton and proton-neutron collisions. This contribution presents the results of the search…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-21 Karlijn Kruiswijk , Mathieu Lamoureux , Matthias Vereecken , Gwenhaël de Wasseige

IC 310 has recently been identified as a gamma-ray emitter based on observations at GeV energies with Fermi-LAT and at very high energies (VHE, E > 100 GeV) with the MAGIC telescopes. Despite IC 310 having been classified as a radio galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 J. Sitarek , D. Eisenacher Glawion , K. Mannheim , P. Colin , M. Kadler , R. Schultz , F. Krauß , E. Ros , U. Bach , J. Wilms

New observations of LS 5039, a High Mass X-ray Binary comprising a massive star and compact object, were carried out with the High Energy Stereoscopic System of Cherenkov Telescopes (H.E.S.S.) in 2005 at very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , F. A. Aharonian

The MAGIC collaboration recently reported the detection of the quasar 3C279 at > 100 GeV gamma-ray energies. Here we present simultaneous optical (BVRI) and X-ray (RXTE PCA) data from the day of the VHE detection and discuss the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-12 Markus Boettcher , Anita Reimer , Alan P. Marscher

The TeV gamma-ray point source HESSJ1832-093 remains unidentified despite extensive multi-wavelength studies. The gamma-ray emission could originate in a very compact pulsar wind nebula or an X-ray binary system composed of the X-ray source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 P. Eger , H. Laffon , P. Bordas , E. de Ona Whilhelmi , J. Hinton , G. Puehlhofer

Detecting and studying galactic gamma-ray sources emitting very-high energy photons sheds light on the acceleration and propagation of cosmic rays presumably created in these sources. Currently, there are few sources emitting photons with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 D. Kostunin , L. Mohrmann , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , V. Joshi , A. Mitchell , S. Ohm , B. Khélifi , L. Giunti , A. Sinha

Very-high-energy (VHE) observations have revealed approximately 100 TeV sources in our Galaxy, and a significant fraction of them are under investigation for understanding their origin. We report our study of one of them, HESS~J1844$-$030.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 D. Zheng , Z. Wang , X. Zhang , Y. Chen , Y. Xing