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The diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB) above 100 MeV encodes unique information about high-energy processes in the universe. Numerous sources for the EGRB have been proposed, but the two systems which are certain to make some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vasiliki Pavlidou , Brian D. Fields

We describe the development of the model for interstellar gamma-ray emission that is the standard adopted by the LAT team and is publicly available. The model is based on a linear combination of templates for interstellar gas column density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Jean-Marc Casandjian

Gamma rays with energy above 10 GeV interact with optical-UV photons resulting in pair production. Therefore, a large sample of high redshift sources of these gamma rays can be used to probe the extragalactic background starlight (EBL) by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew Chen , Luis C. Reyes , Steven Ritz

The presence of weak intergalactic magnetic fields can be studied by their effect on electro-magnetic cascades induced by multi-TeV gamma-rays in the cosmic radiation background. Small deflections of secondary electrons and positrons as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-29 Markus Ahlers

Possible existence of extragalactic ultra-high energy cosmic ray sources giving a very small particle flux on the Earth is considered. Accretion discs around supermassive black holes where particles are accelerated in electric fields are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 A. Uryson

We present a search for spatial extension in high-latitude ($|b|>5^\circ$) sources in recent Fermi point source catalogs. The result is the Fermi High-Latitude Extended Sources Catalog, which provides source extensions (or upper limits…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-13 LAT Collaboration , Jonathan Biteau

The spatial extension of a gamma-ray source is an essential ingredient to determine its spectral properties as well as its potential multi-wavelength counterpart. The capability to spatially resolve gamma-ray sources is greatly improved by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-12 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , T. J. Brandt , J. Bregeon , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , R. A. Cameron , M. Caragiulo , P. A. Caraveo , D. Castro , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , J. M. Cohen , D. Costantin , F. Costanza , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , F. de Palma , R. Desiante , S. W. Digel , N. Di Lalla , M. Di Mauro , L. Di Venere , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , E. C. Ferrara , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , M. -H. Grondin , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , A. K. Harding , E. Hays , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , X. Hou , G. Jóhannesson , T. Kamae , M. Kuss , G. La Mura , S. Larsson , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , P. Lubrano , J. D. Magill , S. Maldera , D. Malyshev , A. Manfreda , M. N. Mazziotta , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , V. S. Paliya , D. Paneque , J. S. Perkins , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , F. Piron , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , S. Raino , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , T. Reposeur , C. Sgro , D. Simone , E. J. Siskind , F. Spada , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , D. Tak , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , G. Vianello , K. S. Wood , M. Wood

Nearby sources of cosmic rays up to a ZeV(=10^21 eV) could be observed with a multi-messenger approach including secondary gamma-rays and neutrinos. If cosmic rays above ~10^18 eV are produced in magnetized environments such as galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Armengaud , Guenter Sigl , Francesco Miniati

Lyman-alpha (Lya) photons that escape the interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies may be resonantly scattered by neutral hydrogen atoms in the circumgalactic and intergalactic media, thereby increasing the angular extent of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Zheng Zheng , Renyue Cen , David Weinberg , Hy Trac , Jordi Miralda-Escude

Diffuse emission from the Milky Way dominates the gamma-ray sky. About 80% of the high-energy luminosity of the Milky Way comes from processes in the interstellar medium. The Galactic diffuse emission traces interactions of energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-25 T. A. Porter , S. W. Digel , I. A. Grenier , I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong

The origin of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB) is still an open question, even after nearly forty years of its discovery. The emission could originate from either truly diffuse processes or from unresolved point sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-09 D. Bhattacharya , P. Sreekumar , R. Mukherjee

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT) collaboration has recently reported on 50 months of measurements of the isotropic Extragalactic Gamma Ray Background (EGRB) spectrum between $100\mbox{MeV}$ and $820\mbox{GeV}$. Ultrahigh Energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Eyal Gavish , David Eichler

Propagation of gamma-beam in the anisotropic medium is considered. The simpliest example of such a medium of the general type is a combination of the two linearly polarized monochromatic laser waves with different frequencies (dichromatic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Maisheev

We study the high latitude (|b|>10) diffuse gamma-ray emission in the Galaxy in light of the recently published data from the Fermi collaboration at energies between 100 MeV and 100 GeV. The unprecedented accuracy in these measurements…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-16 I. Cholis , M. Tavakoli , C. Evoli , L. Maccione , P. Ullio

We present a new method to interpret the $\gamma$-ray data of our inner Galaxy as measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT). We train and test convolutional neural networks with simulated Fermi-LAT images based on models tuned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-29 Sascha Caron , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Luc Hendriks , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

An extensive program for the calculation of galactic cosmic-ray propagation has been developed. Primary and secondary nucleons, primary and secondary electrons, and secondary positrons are included. The basic spatial propagation mechanisms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , V. Schoenfelder

The influence of intergalactic magnetic fields on the strong gravitational lensing of blazar secondary gamma radiation is discussed. Currently, two cases of strong gravitational lensing of blazar gamma-radiation are known, where radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-25 Yury N. Eroshenko

Diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is produced in interactions of cosmic rays with gas and ambient photon fields and thus provides us with an indirect measurement of cosmic rays in various locations in the Galaxy. The diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl

The extragalactic background light (EBL) is one of the fundamental observational quantities in cosmology. All energy releases from resolved and unresolved extragalactic sources, and the light from any truly diffuse background, excluding the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Eli Dwek , Frank Krennrich

We provide our estimates of the intensity of the gamma-ray emission with an energy near 0.1 TeV generated in inrergalactic space in the interactions of cosmic rays with background emissions. We assume that the cosmic ray sources are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 A. V. Uryson