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The injection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in the intergalactic medium leads to the production of a GeV-TeV gamma-ray halo centered on the source location, through the production of a high electromagnetic component in the interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Kumiko Kotera , Denis Allard , Martin Lemoine

There is growing evidence from gamma-ray observations at high and very high energies that particle escape is a key aspect shaping the morphological properties of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) at various evolutionary stages. We aim to provide a…

We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) detection of the gamma-ray emission towards the young massive star cluster RSGC 1. Using the latest source catalog and diffuse background models, we found that the diffuse gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-04 Xiao-Na Sun , Rui-Zhi Yang , Xiang-Yu Wang

We present spectral measurements made in the soft (20-100 keV) gamma-ray band of the region containing the composite supernova remnant G11.2-0.3 and its associated pulsar PSR J1811-1925. Analysis of INTEGRAL/IBIS data allows…

LHAASO J1908+0621 has been recently detected as a source emitting $\gamma$-rays with energies above 100 TeV, and the multiband observations show that a break around 1 TeV appears in the $\gamma$-ray spectrum. We have reanalyzed the GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-11 Keyao Wu , Liancheng Zhou , Yunlu Gong , Jun Fang

Recent HESS observations of the ~200 pc scale diffuse gamma-ray emission from the central molecular zone (CMZ) suggest the presence of a PeV cosmic-ray accelerator (PeVatron) located in the inner 10 pc region of the Galactic Center.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-28 Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang , Anton Prosekin , Xiao-Chuan Chang

Mapping the intergalactic medium (IGM) in Lyman-$\alpha$ emission would yield unprecedented tomographic information on the large-scale distribution of baryons and potentially provide new constraints on the UV background and various feedback…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-22 Joris Witstok , Ewald Puchwein , Girish Kulkarni , Renske Smit , Martin G. Haehnelt

We present our new model for the description of the very high energy Galactic gamma-ray emission based on a discrete injection of cosmic rays by individual sources. We investigate the morphology of the very high energy gamma-ray sky, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-13 Samy Kaci , Gwenael Giacinti

We have modelled the high-energy astrophysics of the inner 200 pc of the Galaxy with a view to explaining the diffuse, broad-band (radio continuum to TeV gamma-ray), non-thermal signal detected from this region. Our modelling pins down the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-29 Roland M. Crocker

The LHAASO Collaboration has recently reported a measurement of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Plane at energies between 10 TeV and 1 PeV. While this emission is brighter than that expected from cosmic-ray interactions in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-18 Ariane Dekker , Ian Holst , Dan Hooper , Giovani Leone , Emily Simon , Huangyu Xiao

We report on observations of several optical emission lines toward a variety of newly revealed faint, large-scale Halpha-emitting regions in the Galaxy. The lines include [NII] 6583, [NII] 5755, [SII] 6716, [OIII] 5007, and HeI 5876…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 G. J. Madsen , R. J. Reynolds , L. M. Haffner

LHAASO J0621$+$3755 is a TeV gamma-ray halo newly identified by LHAASO-KM2A. It is likely to be generated by electrons trapped in a slow-diffusion zone around PSR J0622$+$3749 through inverse Compton scattering. When the gamma-ray spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-01 Kun Fang , Shao-Qiang Xi , Xiao-Jun Bi

Pulsars convert a significant fraction of their total spin-down power into very high-energy electrons, leading to the formation of TeV halos. It is not yet known, however, whether these sources also efficiently accelerate electrons at lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-14 Dan Hooper , Elena Pinetti , Anastasia Sokolenko

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory, or HAWC, is carrying out an unbiased survey of cosmic rays and gamma rays from the Northern Hemisphere between 100 GeV and 100 TeV. HAWC is currently the only high-uptime wide-field TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Segev BenZvi

We model the kinematics of the high- and intermediate- velocity clouds (HVCs and IVCs) observed in absorption towards a sample of 55 Galactic halo stars with accurate distance measurements. We employ a simple model of a thick disc whose…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 A. Marasco , F. Fraternali , N. Lehner , J. C. Howk

The ultra high-energy (UHE) Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission holds important information on the propagation of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. However, its measurements suffer from a contamination from unresolved sources whose contribution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-04 Samy Kaci , Gwenael Giacinti , Dmitri Semikoz

HESS J1809-193 is an extended TeV $\gamma$-ray source and the origin of its $\gamma$-ray emission remains ambiguous. Pulsar wind nebula (PWN) of PSR J1809-1917 laying inside the extended $\gamma$-ray emission is a possible candidate.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-07 Chao-Ming Li , Chong Ge , Ruo-Yu Liu

Pulsar halos provide a unique probe of cosmic-ray propagation in the vicinity of pulsars and have important implications for our understanding of particle diffusion in the interstellar medium. However, the number of firmly identified pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Yong-Jian Wei , En-Sheng Chen , Kun Fang , Xiao-Jun Bi

Various theoretical models predict the existence of extended $\gamma$-ray halo around normal galaxies that could be produced by interactions of cosmic rays with the circumgalactic medium or by annihilation or decay of hypothetical dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-03 M. S. Pshirkov , B. A. Nizamov

In a series of two papers we present results of a new H-alpha imaging survey, aiming at the detection of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas in halos of late-type spiral galaxies. We have investigated a sample of 74 nearby edge-on spirals,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joern Rossa , Ralf-Juergen Dettmar