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We investigate the interstellar medium (ISM) towards seven TeV gamma-ray sources thought to be pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) using Mopra molecular line observations at 7mm [CS(1-0), SiO(1-0,v=0)], Nanten CO(1-0) data and the SGPS/GASS HI…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-10 F. J. Voisin , G. P. Rowell , M. G. Burton , Y. Fukui , H. Sano , F. Aharonian , N. Maxted , C. Braiding , R. Blackwell , J. Lau

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

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

TeV haloes are extended sources of very-high-energy gamma rays found around some middle-aged pulsars. The emission spanning several tens of parsecs suggests an efficient confinement of the ultra-relativistic lepton pairs produced by pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 Lioni-Moana Bourguinat , Carmelo Evoli , Pierrick Martin , Sarah Recchia

Recently, gamma-ray emission at TeV energies has been detected from the starburst galaxies NGC253 (Acero et al., 2009) and M82 (Acciari et al., 2009. It has been claimed that pion production due to cosmic rays accelerated in supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Karl Mannheim , Dominik Elsässer , Omar Tibolla

HESS J1809-193 is an unidentified TeV source discovered by the High Energy Stereoscopic System and originally classified as a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) candidate associated with the pulsar PSR J1809-1917. However, a recent study of deep…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Miguel Araya

Recently, the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) collaboration reported the discovery of the TeV halo around the Geminga pulsar. The TeV emission is believed to originate from inverse Compton scattering of pulsar-injected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-26 Ruo-Yu Liu , Chong Ge , Xiao-Na Sun , Xiang-Yu Wang

H.E.S.S. has recently completed a systematic survey of the Galactic plane in the TeV energy domain. We analyze the flux, latitude and longitude distributions of $\gamma-$ray sources observed by H.E.S.S. in order to infer the properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Maddalena Cataldo , Giulia Pagliaroli , Vittoria Vecchiotti , Francesco Lorenzo Villante

In 2020, the HAWC Collaboration presented the first catalog of gamma-ray sources emitting above 56 TeV and 100 TeV. With nine sources detected, this was the highest-energy source catalog to date. Here, we present the results of re-analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-03 Kelly Malone , José Andrés García González , Patrick Harding

Nearby pulsars within $\sim1\,{\rm kpc}$ are considered to be possible sources of 10-500 GeV cosmic-ray positron excess measured by PAMELA and AMS-02. A TeV halo around Geminga is detected by HAWC, and the measurements of its surface…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Yu Meng , Yun-Feng Liang , Ben-Yang Zhu , Xiao-Na Sun , En-Wei Liang

The evolution of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) plays a crucial role in interpreting the very high energy (VHE; > 10^11 eV) gamma-ray unidentified sources; and moreover it represents the only viable option to explain the discovery of several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-01 Omar Tibolla , Michael Vorster , Sarah Kaufmann , Stefan Ferreira , Karl Mannheim

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Telescope (HAWC) has detected TeV halos associated with two nearby pulsars/pulsar wind nebulae (PWN) -- Geminga and B0656+14. These TeV halos extend up to tens of pc from the central accelerators,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-26 Youyou Li , Oscar Macias , Shinichiro Ando , Jacco Vink

It has long been suggested that nearby pulsars within $\sim 1 \,{\rm kpc}$ are the leading candidate of the 10-500 GeV cosmic-ray positron excess measured by PAMELA and other experiments. The recent measurement of surface brightness profile…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Shao-Qiang Xi , Ruo-Yu Liu , Zhi-Qiu Huang , Kun Fang , Xiang-Yu Wang

We consider a situation in which a pulsar (and its nebula) is formed inside or close to a high density regions of a molecular cloud. We apply a recent model for the gamma radiation of pulsar wind nebulae (PWN), which includes not only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 H. Bartko , W. Bednarek

The detection of extended TeV $\gamma$-ray emission (dubbed "TeV halos") from Geminga and Monogem pulsars by HAWC collaboration implies that the halo-like morphologies around middle-aged pulsars may be common. The $\gamma$-rays above 10 TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Ben Li , Yi Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

Recent observations have shown that pulsars are surrounded by extended regions which emit TeV-scale gamma rays through the inverse Compton scattering of very high energy electrons and positrons. Such TeV halos are responsible for a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Fei Xu , Dan Hooper

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are among the most extreme particle accelerators in galaxies, are recognized as multi-TeV electron/positron sources, and are one of the dominant classes of Galactic gamma-ray sources. Vela X is a nearby PWN at 290…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Tibaldo , F. Aharonian , P. Bordas , S. Caroff , J. A. Hinton , D. Khangulyan , H. Odaka , R. Tuffs

Galactic PeVatrons are astrophysical sources accelerating particles up to a few PeV ($\sim$10$^{15}$ eV) energies. The primary signature of 100 TeV $\gamma$ rays may come from PeV protons or multi-hundred TeV (not PeV) electrons. The search…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-31 P. Bangale , X. Wang

HESS J1809-193 is an unidentified TeV source, first detected by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) Collaboration. The emission originates in a source-rich region that includes several Supernova Remnants (SNR) and Pulsars (PSR)…

Recent studies suggest that pulsars could be strong sources of TeV muon neutrinos provided positive ions are accelerated by pulsar polar caps to PeV energies. In such a situation muon neutrinos are produced through the delta resonance in…

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