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Using data from the HAWC gamma-ray Telescope, we have studied a sample of 37 millisecond pulsars (MSPs), selected for their spindown power and proximity. From among these MSP, we have identified four which favor the presence of very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Diffusive shock acceleration and diffusion propagation are essential components of the standard cosmic ray model. These theories are based on extensive observations of high-energy solar processes, providing substantial direct evidence in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Weikang Gao , Li-Zhuo Bao , Kun Fang , En-sheng Chen , Siming Liu , HongBo Hu

The diffusion coefficients around the pulsar $\gamma$-ray halos are highly suppressed compared with the value in the interstellar medium. It is suggested in the literature that the $\gamma$-ray halos can be explained by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-17 Xiao-Jun Bi

TeV haloes are a recently discovered class of very high energy gamma-ray emitters. These sources consist of extended regions of multi-TeV emission, originally observed around the two well-known and nearby pulsars, Geminga and PSR B0656+14…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-04 Elena Amato , Sarah Recchia

Electron and positron fluxes in cosmic rays are currently measured with unprecedented precision by AMS-02 up to TeV energies, and represent unique probes for the local properties of our Galaxy. The interpretation of their spectra is at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-13 Silvia Manconi

The recent discovery of the so-called TeV halos has attracted much attention. The morphology of the emission requires that the region is characterized by severe suppression of the diffusion coefficient. This finding raises many questions as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-21 Yiwei Bao , Pasquale Blasi , Yang Chen

Context. Extended gamma-ray TeV emission (TeV halos) around middle-aged pulsars has been detected. A proposed model to explain these TeV halos is that electrons from a degree-wide Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN) get up-scattered by cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-17 A. Khokhriakova , W. Becker , G. Ponti , M. Sasaki , B. Li , R. -Y. Liu

The cosmic ray electrons measured by Voyager 1 between 3-70 MeV beyond the heliopause have intensities several hundred times those measured at the Earth by PAMELA at nearly the same energies. This paper compares this new V1 data with data…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-04-03 W. R. Webber , T. L. Villa

There is active interest in the extent to which unresolved gamma-ray pulsars contribute to the galactic diffuse emission, and whether unresolved gamma-ray pulsars could be responsible for the excess of diffuse galactic emission above 1 GeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl , Gottfried Kanbach , Stan D. Hunter , Brian B. Jones

The gamma-ray halo around Geminga is formed owing to the slow diffusion of the electrons released by the Geminga PWN. The latest HAWC and HESS observations exhibit complex features in the TeV gamma-ray spectrum of the Geminga halo. We first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Kun Fang , Xiao-Jun Bi

Measurements of the nearby pulsars Geminga and B0656+14 by the HAWC and Milagro telescopes have revealed the presence of bright TeV-emitting halos surrounding these objects. If young and middle-aged pulsars near the Galactic Center transfer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-12 Dan Hooper , Ilias Cholis , Tim Linden

Recent observations of cosmic ray electrons from several instruments have revealed various degrees of deviation in the measured electron energy distribution from a simple power-law, in a form of an excess around TeV energies. An even more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Lukasz Stawarz , Vahe Petrosian , Roger D. Blandford

We perform a consistent modeling of cosmic ray electrons, positrons and of the radio emission of the Galaxy. For the time we reproduce all relevant data sets between 1 GeV and 1 TeV including the recent AMS-02 positron fraction results. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-01 D. Grasso , G. Di Bernardo , C. Evoli , D. Gaggero , L. Maccione

The LHAASO Collaboration has recently reported a measurement of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Plane at energies between 10 TeV and 1 PeV. While this emission is brighter than that expected from cosmic-ray interactions in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-18 Ariane Dekker , Ian Holst , Dan Hooper , Giovani Leone , Emily Simon , Huangyu Xiao

Numerous extended sources around Galactic pulsars have shown significant $\gamma$-ray emission from GeV to TeV energies, revealing hundreds of TeV energy electrons scattering off of the underlying photon fields through inverse Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-07 Mattia Di Mauro , Silvia Manconi , Michela Negro , Fiorenza Donato

Extended regions of very high energy $\gamma$-ray emission associated with middle-aged pulsars have been found by $\gamma$-ray observatories. These regions, called TeV halos or pulsar halos, are thought to be created when energetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-14 David Guevel , Kim L Page , Kaya Mori , Amy Lien , Ke Fang

Observations have shown that spatially extended "TeV halos" are a common (and potentially generic) feature surrounding young and middle-aged pulsars. However, their morphology is not understood. They are larger than the "compact" region…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Payel Mukhopadhyay , Tim Linden

The hypothesis that pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) can significantly contribute to the excess of the positron ($e^+$) cosmic-ray flux has been consolidated after the observation of a $\gamma$-ray emission at TeV energies of a few degree size…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Silvia Manconi , Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato

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