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In this paper we investigate a situation where relativistic particles are reaccelerated diffusing across regions of reconnection and magnetic dynamo in super-Alfvenic, incompressible large-scale turbulence. We present an exploratory study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 G. Brunetti , A. Lazarian

Observations of radio halos and relics in galaxy clusters indicate efficient electron acceleration. Protons should likewise be accelerated, suggesting that clusters may also be sources of very high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray…

We combine all available information about the spectral shape and morphology of the radio halo of the Coma cluster with the gamma-ray upper limits obtained by the Fermi-LAT and with the magnetic field strength derived from Faraday rotation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 G. Brunetti , P. Blasi , O. Reimer , L. Rudnick , A. Bonafede , S. Brown

We investigate theoretical models for the radio halo and hard X-ray (HXR) excess in the Coma galaxy cluster. Time-independent and time-dependent re-acceleration models for relativistic electrons have been carried out to study the formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ping-Hung Kuo , Chorng-Yuan Hwang , Wing-Huen Ip

We analyse the model of stochastic re-acceleration of electrons, which are emitted by supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Galactic Disk and propagate then into the Galactic halo, in order to explain the origin on nonthermal (radio and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 K. S. Cheng , D. O. Chernyshov , V. A. Dogiel , C. M. Ko

In models of dark matter (DM) with Sommerfeld-enhanced annihilation, where the annihilation rate scales as the inverse velocity, N-body simulations of DM structure formation suggest that the local annihilation signal may be dominated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Tracy R. Slatyer , Natalia Toro , Neal Weiner

In dark matter (DM) models, the production of a gamma line (or of a "box-shaped" gamma-ray spectrum) from DM annihilation proceeds in general from a loop diagram involving a heavy charged particle. If the charged particle in the loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Xiaoyong Chu , Thomas Hambye , Tiziana Scarna , Michel H. G. Tytgat

We use analytic estimates and numerical simulations of test particles interacting with magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence to show that subsonic MHD turbulence produces efficient second-order Fermi acceleration of relativistic particles.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-30 Jacob W. Lynn , Eliot Quataert , Benjamin D. G. Chandran , Ian J. Parrish

We study the impact of astrophysical processes on the gamma-ray background produced by the annihilation of dark matter particles in cosmological halos, with particular attention to the consequences of the formation of supermassive black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-29 Eun-Joo Ahn , Gianfranco Bertone , David Merritt , Pengjie Zhang

Radio relics are synchrotron emission found on the periphery of galaxy clusters. From the position and the morphology, it is often believed that the relics are generated by cosmic-ray (CR) electrons accelerated at shocks through a diffusive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-29 Yutaka Fujita , Motokazu Takizawa , Ryo Yamazaki , Hiroki Akamatsu , Hiroshi Ohno

We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument for identifying particle Dark Matter properties as mass, annihilation cross section and annihilation channels, with gamma-ray observations from the Galactic Center. For the potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-02 Nicolas Bernal

We examine whether charged particles injected by self-annihilating Dark Matter into regions undergoing Diffuse Shock Acceleration (DSA) can be accelerated to high energies. We consider three astrophysical sites where shock acceleration is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-26 Jonathan H. Davis , Joseph Silk , Celine Boehm , Kumiko Kotera , Colin Norman

We analyse processes of electron acceleration in the Fermi Bubbles in order to define parameters and restrictions of the models, which are suggested for the origin of these giant radio and gamma-ray structures. In the case of leptonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 K. S. Cheng , D. O. Chernyshov , V. A. Dogiel , C. M. Ko

We study the local flux of electrons and positrons from annihilating Dark Matter (DM), and investigate how its spectrum depends on the choice of DM model and inhomogeneities in the DM distribution. Below a cutoff energy, the flux is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-25 Michael Kuhlen , Dmitry Malyshev

Diffuse, extended radio emission in galaxy clusters, commonly referred to as radio halos, indicate the presence of high energy cosmic ray (CR) electrons and cluster-wide magnetic fields. We can predict from theory the expected surface…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Joshua Wiener , Ellen G. Zweibel , S. Peng Oh

This study investigates the impact of magnetic turbulence on cosmic ray (CR) electrons through Fermi-II acceleration behind merger-driven shocks in the intracluster medium and examines how the ensuing synchrotron radio emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-07 Hyesung Kang

Galaxy clusters are known to host many active galaxies (AGNs) with radio jets, which could expand to form radio bubbles with relativistic electrons in the intracluster medium (ICM). It has been suggested that fossil relativistic electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-09 Hyesung Kang

Observations of diffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters indicate that cosmic-ray electrons are accelerated on $\sim$Mpc scales. However, protons appear to be accelerated less efficiently since their associated hadronic $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 Denis Wittor , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brüggen

Giant radio halos in galaxy clusters probe mechanisms of particle acceleration connected with cluster merger events. Shocks and turbulence are driven in the inter-galactic-medium (IGM) during clusters mergers and may have a deep impact on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 G. Brunetti

Dark matter (DM) can give observable effects decaying or annihilating with production of electrons or/and photons. Such probability was widely researched for our Galaxy. Here we consider one aspect of similar effect for Andromeda galaxy. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 K. M. Belotsky , E. S. Shlepkina , M. L. Soloviev