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The extragalactic sources of ultra-high-energy (E > 4x10^19 eV) cosmic rays that make a small contribution to the flux of particles recorded by ground-based arrays are discussed. We show that cosmic rays from such sources can produce a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-09 Anna Uryson

The isotropic diffuse $\gamma$-ray background (IGRB) has been detected by various experiments and recently the Fermi-LAT Collaboration has precisely measured its spectrum in a wide energy range. The origin of the IGRB is still unclear and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Mattia Di Mauro

Observations using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) have found a significant gamma-ray excess surrounding the center of the Milky Way (GC). One possible interpretation of this excess invokes gamma-ray emission from an undiscovered…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Tim Linden

We present a new theoretical calculation of the contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray background radiation (EGRB) from star-forming galaxies, based on a state-of-the-art model of hierarchical galaxy formation that is in quantitative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-08 Ryu Makiya , Tomonori Totani , Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi

Empirical simulations based on extrapolations from well-established low-frequency ($< 5$ GHz) surveys fail to accurately model the faint, high frequency ($>10$~GHz) source population; they under-predict the number of observed sources by a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-16 Imogen H. Whittam , Matt J. Jarvis , David A. Green , Ian Heywood , Julia M. Riley

The origin of the Isotropic Diffuse $\gamma$-Ray Background (IGRB) is one of the most intriguing mystery in astrophysics. Recently the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has measured the IGRB spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Mattia Di Mauro

A majority of the $\gamma$-ray emission from star-forming galaxies is generated by the interaction of high-energy cosmic rays with the interstellar gas and radiation fields. Star-forming galaxies are expected to contribute to both the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 M. Ajello , M. Di Mauro , V. S. Paliya , S. Garrappa

The origin of the extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background permeating throughout the Universe remains a mystery forty years after its discovery. The extrapolated population of blazars can account for only half of the background radiation at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-25 Xiawei Wang , Abraham Loeb

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 construct a systematic survey of extragalactic \gamma-ray sky at the energies above 100 GeV using the data of Fermi telescope. Such survey has not been previously done by the ground-based Cherenkov gamma-ray telescopes which have,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz , Ie. Vovk

We investigate potential correlations between radio source counts (after background corrections) of 22 Galactic globular clusters (GCs) from the MAVERIC survey, and stellar encounter rates ($\Gamma$) and masses ($M$) of the GCs. Applying a…

We review the high energy properties of Misaligned AGNs associated with gamma-ray sources detected by Fermi in 24 months of survey. Most of them are nearby emission low power radio galaxies (i.e FRIs) which probably have structured jets. On…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Paola Grandi

Radio observations provide a powerful tool to constrain the assembly of galaxies over cosmic time. Recent deep and wide radio continuum surveys have improved significantly our understanding on radio emission properties of AGNs and SFGs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-19 Fangyou Gao , Tao Wang , Yijun Wang

Galaxies experiencing intense star-formation episodes are expected to be rich in energetic cosmic rays (CRs). These CRs undergo hadronic interactions with the interstellar gases of their host to drive $\gamma$-ray emission, which has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-18 Ellis R. Owen , Khee-Gan Lee , Albert K. H. Kong

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) includes photons with wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared, which are effective at attenuating gamma rays with energy above ~10 GeV during propagation from sources at cosmological distances. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 The Fermi LAT , the GBM Collaboration , : , A. A. Abdo

Faint $\gamma$-ray signatures emerge in Fermi-LAT data stacked scaled to the characteristic $R_{500}$ radii of MCXC galaxy clusters. This third paper in a series shows a $4.3\sigma$ excess of discrete 4FGL-DR4 catalog $\gamma$-ray sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-14 Uri Keshet

We consider the emission of high energy to very high energy $\gamma$-rays in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGN) or the central regions of radio-loud AGN. We use our results to estimate the $\gamma$-ray flux from the central regions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 P. A. Johnson , A. Mastichiadis , R. J. Protheroe , T. S. Stanev , A. P. Szabo

The third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) $\gamma$-ray source catalog (3FGL) contains over 1000 objects for which there is no known counterpart at other wavelengths. The physical origin of the $\gamma$-ray emission of those objects is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 F. K. Schinzel , L. Petrov , G. B. Taylor , P. G. Edwards

Recently, a spatially extended excess of gamma rays collected by the Fermi-LAT from the inner region of the Milky Way has been detected by different groups and with increasingly sophisticated techniques. Yet, any final conclusion about the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 Francesca Calore , Ilias Cholis , Christoph Weniger

Investigations of the cluster environment of radio sources have not shown a correlation between radio power and degree of clustering. However, it has been demonstrated that extended X-ray luminosity and galaxy clustering do exhibit a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. A. Miller , F. N. Owen , J. O. Burns , M. J. Ledlow , W. Voges