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Synchrotron diffuse radiation (SDR) emission is one of the major Galactic components, in the 100 MHz up to 100 GHz frequency range. Its spectrum and sky map provide valuable measure of the galactic cosmic ray electrons (GCRE) in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-08 Giuseppe Di Bernardo , Dario Grasso , Carmelo Evoli , Daniele Gaggero

Structure formation in the intergalactic medium (IGM) produces large-scale, collisionless shock waves, where electrons can accelerate to highly relativistic energies. Such electrons can Compton scatter cosmic microwave background photons up…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Uri Keshet , Eli Waxman , Abraham Loeb , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

In this work we develop a new propagation model for the Galactic cosmic rays based on the GALPROP code, including contributions from dark matter annihilation. The model predicts compatible Galactic diffuse $\gamma$ ray spectra with EGRET…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiao-Jun Bi , Juan Zhang , Qiang Yuan

The gamma-ray emission from Starburst and Starforming Galaxies (SBGs and SFGs) strongly suggest a correlation between star-forming activity and gamma-ray luminosity. However, the very nature of cosmic-ray (CR) transport and the degree of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 A. Ambrosone , M. Chianese , D. F. G. Fiorillo , A. Marinelli , G. Miele

Galactic magnetic field (GMF) and secondary cosmic rays (CRs) (e.g. $^{10}$beryllium, boron, antiproton) are important components to understand the propagation of CRs in the Milky Way Galaxy. Realistic modeling of GMF is based on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-01 Sayan Biswas , Nayantara Gupta

The $\gamma$-ray observation of interstellar gas provides a unique way to probe the cosmic rays (CRs) outside the solar system. In this work, we use an updated version of Fermi-LAT data and recent multi-wavelength tracers of interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-19 Zhao-Qiang Shen , Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

Measurements of the low energy spectrum of Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) by detectors at or near the Earth are affected by Solar modulation. To overcome this difficulty, we consider nearby molecular clouds as GCR detectors outside the Solar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz , A. M. Taylor

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 use the recent measurement of the isotropic $\gamma$-ray background (IGRB) by Fermi LAT and analysis of the contribution of unresolved point $\gamma$-ray sources to IGRB to build constraints on the models of ultra-high cosmic rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 Oleg Kalashev

The standard approach to cosmic-ray (CR) propagation in the Galaxy is based on the assumption that local transport properties can be extrapolated to the whole CR confining volume. Such models tend to underestimate the gamma-ray flux above…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-06 Daniele Gaggero , Alfredo Urbano , Mauro Valli , Piero Ullio

The recently observed data by AMS-02 clearly confirms that the positron flux rises with energy and shows a peak near a few hundred GeV. This rising positron flux cannot be explained by interactions of cosmic rays with interstellar hydrogen…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-23 Agnibha De Sarkar , Sayan Biswas , Nayantara Gupta

The galactic diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission, as seen by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), shows a sharp peak in the region around 4 kpc from the Galactic center, which can be interpreted either as due to an enhanced density of cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-23 Giada Peron , Felix Aharonian , Sabrina Casanova , Ruizhi Yang , Roberta Zanin

Measurements of the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB) are complicated by a strong Galactic foreground. Estimates of the EGRB flux and spectrum, obtained by modeling the Galactic emission, have produced a variety of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Uri Keshet , Eli Waxman , Abraham Loeb

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

"Diffuse" gamma rays consist of several components: truly diffuse emission from the interstellar medium, the extragalactic background, whose origin is not firmly established yet, and the contribution from unresolved and faint Galactic point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong , O. Reimer

We address the role of gamma-ray astronomy in the investigation of nonthermal processes in the large scale structure of the universe. Based on EGRET upper limits on nearby galaxy clusters (GCs) we constrain the acceleration efficiency of CR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Miniati

We investigate the diffusion of cosmic rays into molecular cloud complexes. Using the cosmic-ray diffusion formalism of Protheroe, et al. (2008), we examine how cosmic rays diffuse into clouds exhibiting different density structures,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 D. I. Jones

We review the current understanding of the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB). The DGRB is what remains of the total measured gamma-ray emission after the subtraction of the resolved sources and of the diffuse Galactic foregrounds. It is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-28 Mattia Fornasa , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde

Diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission is a key probe of cosmic rays (CRs) distribution within the Galaxy. However, the discrepancies between observations and theoretical model expectations highlight the need for refined uncertainty estimates. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Han-Xiang Hu , Peng-Fei Yin , Meng-Jie Zhao

It is believed that the observed diffuse gamma ray emission from the galactic plane is the result of interactions between cosmic rays and the interstellar gas. Such emission can be amplified if cosmic rays penetrate into dense molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefano Gabici , Felix Aharonian , Pasquale Blasi
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