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Data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope suggests that there is an extended excess of GeV gamma-ray photons in the Inner Galaxy. Identifying potential astrophysical sources that contribute to this excess is an important step in verifying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Samuel K. Lee , Mariangela Lisanti , Benjamin R. Safdi

We considered the Inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) of charged particles onto photons whose distribution is a Black Body Radiation (BBR) deriving the exact energy and angular differential distribution in the general case and in its most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 D. Fargion , A. Salis

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has provided evidence for diffuse gamma-ray emission in the central parts of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy. This excess has been interpreted either as dark matter annihilation emission or as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Giacomo Fragione , Fabio Antonini , Oleg Y. Gnedin

It is proposed that the spectra of so called 'MeV blazars' can be explained in terms of previously developed models of the external comptonization of accretion disk radiation provided that the structure of the inner and outer parts of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 W. Bednarek

The all-sky survey in high-energy gamma rays (E$>$30 MeV) carried out by the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory provides a unique opportunity to examine in detail the diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 P. Sreekumar

The evidence for particle acceleration in supernova shells comes from electrons whose synchrotron emission is observed in radio and X-rays. Recent observations by the HESS instrument reveal that supernova remnants also emit TeV gamma-rays;…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Troy A. Porter , Igor V. Moskalenko , Andrew W. Strong

The gigaelectronvolt $\gamma$-ray excess observed towards the Galactic centre remains unexplained. While dark matter annihilation has long been considered a leading explanation, an alternative scenario involving a large population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 Valeriya Korol , Andrei Igoshev

It is generally held that >100 TeV emission from astrophysical objects unambiguously demonstrates the presence of PeV protons or nuclei, due to the unavoidable Klein-Nishina suppression of inverse Compton emission from electrons. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 M. Breuhaus , J. Hahn , C. Romoli , B. Reville , G. Giacinti , R. Tuffs , J. A. Hinton

Diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission produced by the interaction of cosmic-ray particles with matter and radiation in the Galaxy can be used to probe the distribution of cosmic rays and their sources in different regions of the Galaxy. With its…

We calculate the spectra of inverse Compton (IC) emissions in gamma-ray burst (GRB) shocks produced when relativistic ejecta encounters the external interstellar medium, assuming a broken power-law approximation to the synchrotron seed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 X. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

Pulsed emission from almost one hundred millisecond pulsars (MSPs) has been detected in $\gamma$-rays by the Fermi Large-Area Telescope. The global properties of this population remain relatively unconstrained despite many attempts to model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-25 R. T. Bartels , T. D. P. Edwards , C. Weniger

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

Nearby pulsars have been suggested as sources of $\sim$TeV $e^+/e^-$ Cosmic Ray (CR) excess on Earth. The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) detected extended TeV emission regions in the direction of two nearby middle-aged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Xiaping Tang , Tsvi Piran

The Milky Way centre exhibits an intense flux in the gamma and X-ray bands, whose origin is partly ascribed to the possible presence of a large population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and cataclysmic variables (CVs), respectively. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Manuel Arca-Sedda , Bence Kocsis , Timothy Brandt

The intense Compton cooling of ultra-relativistic electrons in the Klein-Nishina regime in radiation dominated environments, such as that found in the Galactic Centre, may result in radically different electron spectra than those produced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. A. Hinton , F. A. Aharonian

A nearby super-luminous burst GRB 130427A was simultaneously detected by six $\gamma$-ray space telescopes ({\it Swift}, Fermi-GBM/LAT, Konus-Wind, SPI-ACS/INTEGRAL, AGILE and RHESSI) and by three RAPTOR full-sky persistent monitors. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-09 Yi-Zhong Fan , P. H. T. Tam , Fu-Wen Zhang , Yun-Feng Liang , Hao-Ning He , Bei Zhou , Rui-Zhi Yang , Zhi-Ping Jin , Da-Ming Wei

The high-energy diffuse gamma-ray emission and neutrino emission are expected from the Galactic plane, generated by hadronuclear interactions between cosmic rays (CR) and interstellar medium (ISM). Therefore, measurements of these diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-19 Kai Yan , Ruo-Yu Liu , Rui Zhang , Chao-Ming Li , Qiang Yuan , Xiang-Yu Wang

In this work, we consider the possible presence of a large population of millisecond pulsars in the Galactic Centre. Their direct detection would be challenging due to severe pulse broadening caused by scattering of radiation. We propose a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Paul C. W. Lai , Matteo Agostini , Foteini Oikonomou , Beatrice Crudele , Ellis R. Owen , Kinwah Wu

We report our analysis of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data for 39 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) listed in the second $\gamma$-ray pulsar catalog. Spectra of the pulsars are obtained. We fit the spectra with a function of a power law with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-09 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang

The search for diffuse non-thermal inverse Compton (IC) emission from galaxy clusters at hard X-ray energies has been undertaken with many instruments, with most detections being either of low significance or controversial. Background and…