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Dark matter annihilation in Galactic substructure will produce diffuse gamma-ray emission of remarkably constant intensity across the sky, making it difficult to disentangle this Galactic dark matter signal from the extragalactic gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-15 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins , Vasiliki Pavlidou

We consider the propagation of galactic cosmic rays under assumption that the interstellar medium is a fractal one. An anomalous diffusion equation in terms of fractional derivatives is used to describe of cosmic ray propagation. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Lagutin , V. V. Uchaikin

EGRET data on the Gamma ray emission from the inner Galaxy have shown a rather flat spectrum, extending to about 50 GeV. It is usually assumed that these gamma-rays arise from the interactions of cosmic ray nuclei with ambient matter.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Rhode , Torsten A. Ensslin , Peter L. Biermann

Various studies firmly establish the fact that gamma-ray observations can act as a unique probe to detect the possible cosmic ray (CR) sources, study the CR density distribution and explore the average properties of interstellar medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Sayan Biswas , Nayantara Gupta

The Milky Way's galactic center is a highly dynamical, crowded environment. Gamma ray observations of this region, such as the excess of GeV scale gamma rays observed by Fermi LAT, have been of tremendous interest to both the high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Isabel S. Sands , Philip F. Hopkins , Sam B. Ponnada , Dusan Keres , Lina Necib , Yen-Hsing Julius Lin

Galactic diffuse gamma-ray flux measured by the Tibet AS$\gamma$ experiment and the total Galactic gamma-ray flux measured by Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) are found to be consistent, within the statistical and…

The injection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in the intergalactic medium leads to the production of a GeV-TeV gamma-ray halo centered on the source location, through the production of a high electromagnetic component in the interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Kumiko Kotera , Denis Allard , Martin Lemoine

Ultra-high energy cosmic rays interacting with the radiation fields in the universe cause electromagnetic cascades resulting in a flux of extragalactic gamma rays, detectable to some 100 GeV. Recent precise measurements of the extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 A. D. Erlykin , A. W. Wolfendale

High-energy gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane above ~100 MeV is composed of three main contributions: diffuse emission from cosmic ray interactions in the interstellar medium, emission from extended sources, such as supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Neronov , D. Malyshev , M. Chernyakova , A. Lutovinov

We discuss the magnetic field influence on diffuse gamma-ray emission from extragalactic electromagnetic cascades initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Regions in space vary considerably in field strength: it is possibly of 10^(-12) G…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-16 A. Uryson

This article reviews the present status of high energy gamma-ray astronomy at energies above 30 MeV. Observations in the past decade using both space- and ground-based experiments have been primarily responsible for giving a tremendous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 R. Mukherjee

Very high energy {\gamma}-rays are one of the most important messengers of the non-thermal Universe. The major motivation of very high energy {\gamma}-ray astronomy is to find sources of high energy cosmic rays. Several astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 D. Bose , V. R. Chitnis , P. Majumdar , A. Shukla

We discuss the possibility of observing ultra high energy cosmic ray sources inhigh energy gamma rays. Protons propagating away from their accelerators produce secondary electrons during interactions with cosmic microwave background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefano Gabici , Felix A. Aharonian

We present a study of the expectations for very-high-energy (VHE) to ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray and neutrino emission from interacting cosmic rays in our Galaxy as well as a comparison to the latest results for the Galactic UHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 M. Breuhaus , J. A. Hinton , V. Joshi , B. Reville , H. Schoorlemmer

Galactic diffuse emissions in gamma rays and neutrinos arise from interactions of cosmic rays with the interstellar medium and probe the cosmic-ray intensity away from the Solar system. Model predictions for those are influenced by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Anton Stall , Philipp Mertsch

Accelerated particles are ubiquitous in the Cosmos and play a fundamental role in many processes governing the evolution of the Universe at all scales, from the sub-AU ones relevant for the formation and evolution of stars and planets to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-27 Elena Amato , Sabrina Casanova

Diffuse emission is produced in energetic cosmic ray (CR) interactions, mainly protons and electrons, with the interstellar gas and radiation field and contains the information about particle spectra in distant regions of the Galaxy. It may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Igor V. Moskalenko , Andrew W. Strong , Seth W. Digel , Troy A. Porter

Observations of the Galactic Center (GC) region in very-high-energy (VHE, >100 GeV) gamma rays, conducted with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), led to the detection of an extended region of diffuse gamma-ray emission in 2006.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-15 Alexander Ziegler , Christopher van Eldik

We calculate the flux of ultra high energy photons from individual ordinary (i.e. non-superconducting) cosmic strings and compare the results with the sensitivity of current and proposed TeV and EeV telescopes. Our calculations give only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Jane H. MacGibbon , Robert H. Brandenberger

We obtain the angular distribution of the cosmic rays reaching an observer from an individual source and after propagation through a turbulent magnetic field, for different ratios between the source distance and the diffusion length. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Diego Harari , Silvia Mollerach , Esteban Roulet