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Pulsar halos (also termed 'TeV halo') are a new class of $\gamma$-ray sources in Galaxy, which manifest as extended $\gamma$-ray emission around middle-age pulsars, as discovered around the Geminga pulsar, the Monogem pulsar and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-01 Qi-Zuo Wu , Chao-Ming Li , Xuan-Han Liang , Chong Ge , Ruo-Yu Liu

TeV Halos, extended regions of TeV gamma-ray emission around middle-aged pulsars, have recently been established as a new source class in gamma-ray astronomy. These halos have been attributed to relativistic electrons and positrons that…

Highly extended gamma-ray emission around the Geminga pulsar was discovered by Milagro and verified by HAWC. Despite many observations with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), detection of gamma-ray emission on angular scales…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 A. M. W. Mitchell , S. Caroff , J. Hinton , L. Mohrmann

Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission is produced by the interaction of high-energy cosmic rays propagating through the Milky Way with interstellar gas and radiation fields. Its measurement can provide crucial insights into the acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 Georg Schwefer

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) telescope recently observed extended emission around the Geminga and PSR~B0656+14 pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). These observations have been used to estimate cosmic-ray (CR) diffusion coefficients near…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-17 Gudlaugur Johannesson , Troy A. Porter , Igor V. Moskalenko

A new study of the diffuse Galactic gamma-ray continuum radiation is presented, using a cosmic-ray propagation model which includes nucleons, antiprotons, electrons, positrons, and synchrotron radiation. Our treatment of the inverse Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

As the TeV halos around Geminga and PSR B0656+14 have been confirmed by HAWC, slow diffusion of cosmic rays could be general around pulsars, and the cosmic positron spectrum from pulsars could be significantly changed. As a consequence, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-07 Kun Fang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

The unexpectedly high flux of cosmic ray positrons detected at Earth may originate from nearby astrophysical sources, dark matter, or unknown processes of cosmic-ray secondary production. We report the detection, using the HighAltitude…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-17 A. U. Abeysekara , A. Albert , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , J. D. Álvarez , R. Arceo , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , A. S. Barber , N. Bautista-Elivar , A. Becerril , E. Belmont-Moreno , S. Y. BenZvi , D. Berley , A. Bernal , J. Braun , C. Brisbois , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , M. Castillo , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , C. De León , E. De la Fuente , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , R. W. Ellsworth , K. Engel , O. Enríquez-Rivera , D. W. Fiorino , N. Fraija , J. A. García-González , F. Garfias , M. Gerhardt , A. González Muñoz , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , Z. Hampel-Arias , J. P. Harding , S. Hernández , A. Hernández-Almada , J. Hinton , B. Hona , C. M. Hui , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , A. Jardin-Blicq , V. Joshi , S. Kaufmann , D. Kieda , A. Lara , R. J. Lauer , W. H. Lee , D. Lennarz , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis Raya , R. Luna-García , R. López-Coto , K. Malone , S. S. Marinelli , O. Martinez , I. Martinez-Castellanos , J. Martínez-Castro , H. Martínez-Huerta , J. A. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , L. Nellen , M. Newbold , M. U. Nisa , R. Noriega-Papaqui , R. Pelayo , J. Pretz , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , Z. Ren , C. D. Rho , C. Rivière , D. Rosa-González , M. Rosenberg , E. Ruiz-Velasco , H. Salazar , F. Salesa Greus , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , H. Schoorlemmer , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , R. W. Springer , P. Surajbali , I. Taboada , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , T. N. Ukwatta , G. Vianello , T. Weisgarber , S. Westerhoff , I. G. Wisher , J. Wood , T. Yapici , G. Yodh , P. W. Younk , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou , F. Guo , J. Hahn , H. Li , H. Zhang

Detailed observation by the High-Altitude Water Cerenkov Observatory of the regions within about 20 pc of the nearby Geminga and PSR B0656+14 pulsars have suggested the need for the diffusion coefficient of 10-100 TeV leptons yielding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-20 J J Quenby

The HAWC Collaboration has observed gamma rays at energies above 56 TeV from a collection of nine sources. It has been suggested that this emission could be hadronic in nature, requiring that these systems accelerate cosmic-ray protons or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-01 Takahiro Sudoh , Tim Linden , Dan Hooper

Measurements of the nearby pulsars Geminga and B0656+14 by the HAWC and Milagro telescopes have revealed the presence of bright TeV-emitting halos surrounding these objects. If young and middle-aged pulsars near the Galactic Center transfer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-12 Dan Hooper , Ilias Cholis , Tim Linden

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

We study the high latitude (|b|>10) diffuse gamma-ray emission in the Galaxy in light of the recently published data from the Fermi collaboration at energies between 100 MeV and 100 GeV. The unprecedented accuracy in these measurements…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-16 I. Cholis , M. Tavakoli , C. Evoli , L. Maccione , P. Ullio

Pulsar halos are produced by electrons and positrons diffusing in the interstellar medium around their parent pulsar wind nebulae. Recent observations by HAWC and LHAASO have revealed asymmetric morphologies in the halos surrounding Geminga…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-25 Si-Zhe Wu , Chao-Ming Li , Ruo-Yu Liu

Diffuse gamma-ray emission (DGE) has been discovered over the Galactic disk in the energy range from sub-GeV to sub-PeV. While it is believed to be dominated by the pionic emission of cosmic ray (CR) hadrons via interactions with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-18 Kai Yan , Ruo-Yu Liu

In recent years, the number of known sources emitting very- and ultra-high-energy gamma-rays has increased significantly thanks to facilities such as LHAASO and HAWC. Many of the observed sources are still unidentified or poorly constrained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Michela Rigoselli , Sarah Recchia , Alberto Bonollo , Silvia Crestan , Giada Peron , Andrea Giuliani , Sandro Mereghetti

Extended regions of very high energy $\gamma$-ray emission associated with middle-aged pulsars have been found by $\gamma$-ray observatories. These regions, called TeV halos or pulsar halos, are thought to be created when energetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-14 David Guevel , Kim L Page , Kaya Mori , Amy Lien , Ke Fang

We attempt to interpret the cosmic-ray positron excess by injection from the nearby pulsar Geminga, assuming a two-zone diffusion scenario and an injection spectrum with a low energy cutoff. Since the high energy positrons and electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-27 Guang-Yao Zhou , Zhao-Huan Yu , Qiang Yuan , Hong-Hao Zhang

Geminga is an enigmatic radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar located at a mere 250 pc distance from Earth. Extended very-high-energy gamma-ray emission around the pulsar has been detected by multiple water Cherenkov detector based instruments.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-01 A. M. W. Mitchell , S. Caroff

It was suggested that the $\gamma$-ray halo around Geminga might not be interpreted by slow-diffusion. If the ballistic regime of electron/positron propagation is considered, the Geminga halo may be explained even with a large diffusion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Li-Zhuo Bao , Kun Fang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Sheng-Hao Wang