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The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has revealed a diffuse $\gamma$-ray background at energies from 0.1 GeV to 1 TeV, which can be separated into Galactic emission and an isotropic, extragalactic component. Previous efforts to understand…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-17 Matt A. Roth , Mark R. Krumholz , Roland M. Crocker , Silvia Celli

Star-forming galaxies have been predicted to contribute considerably to the diffuse gamma-ray background as they are guaranteed reservoirs of cosmic rays. Assuming that the hadronic interactions responsible for high-energy gamma rays also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Irene Tamborra , Shin'ichiro Ando , Kohta Murase

We present a new theoretical modeling to predict luminosity and spectrum of gamma-ray and neutrino emission of a star-forming galaxy, from star formation rate ($\psi$), gas mass ($M_{\rm gas}$), stellar mass, and disk size, taking into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Takahiro Sudoh , Tomonori Totani , Norita Kawanaka

Recent studies have found a positive correlation between the star-formation rate of galaxies and their gamma-ray luminosity. Galaxies with a high star-formation rate are expected to produce a large amount of high-energy cosmic rays, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Cesar Rojas-Bravo , Miguel Araya

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

Star formation in galaxies is observed to be associated with gamma-ray emission. The detection of gamma rays from star-forming galaxies by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has allowed the determination of a functional relationship…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-07 Emma Storm , Tesla E. Jeltema , Stefano Profumo

The $\gamma$-ray emission from stars is induced by the interaction of cosmic rays with stellar atmospheres and photon fields. This emission is expected to come in two components: a stellar disk emission, where $\gamma$-rays are mainly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Raniere de Menezes , Elena Orlando , Mattia Di Mauro , Andrew Strong

It has been suggested that unresolved radio galaxies and radio quasars (sometimes referred to as misaligned active galactic nuclei) could be responsible for a significant fraction of the observed diffuse gamma-ray background. In this study,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Alejandro Lopez

Context. Star-forming galaxies emit {\gamma}rays with relatively low luminosity, but the study of their emission is no less captivating. While it is known that their {\gamma}-ray luminosity in the GeV band is strongly linked to their star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 P. Kornecki , J. Biteau , C. Boisson , P. Cristofari

The origin of the extragalactic gamma-ray background is a pressing cosmological mystery. The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has recently measured the intensity and spectrum of this background; both are substantially different from previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-16 Brian D. Fields , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Tijana Prodanovic

The total extragalactic $\gamma$-ray flux provides a powerful probe into the origin and evolution of the highest energy processes in our universe. An important component of this emission is the isotropic $\gamma$-ray background (IGRB),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 Carlos Blanco , Tim Linden

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

Many star-forming galaxies and those hosting active galactic nuclei (AGN) show evidence of massive outflows of material in a variety of phases including ionized, neutral atomic, and molecular. Molecular outflows in particular have been the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Alex McDaniel , Marco Ajello , Chris Karwin

Star-forming and starburst galaxies, which are well-known cosmic-rays reservoirs, are expected to emit gamma-rays and neutrinos predominantly via hadronic collisions. In this Letter, we analyze the 10-year Fermi-LAT spectral energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-07 Antonio Ambrosone , Marco Chianese , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Antonio Marinelli , Gennaro Miele

Context. Near a dozen star-forming galaxies have been detected in gamma-rays by the Fermi observatory in the last decade. A remarkable property of this sample is the quasi-linear relation between the gamma-ray luminosity and the star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-23 P. Kornecki , L. J. Pellizza , S. del Palacio , A. L. Müller , J. F. Albacete-Colombo , G. E. Romero

Starburst galaxies have a highly increased star-formation rate compared to regular galaxies and inject huge amounts of kinetic power into the interstellar medium via supersonic stellar winds, and supernova explosions. Supernova remnants,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 Stefan Ohm

It is well known that the diffuse gamma-rays are produced by the collisions between the galactic cosmic rays with the stellar matter (Hayakawa-Morrison Hypothesis). In this paper the author tries to estimate the contribution of star flares…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-08 Y. Muraki

The origin of the isotropic gamma-ray background (IGRB) --- the portion of the extragalactic gamma-ray sky that is not resolvable into individual point sources --- provides a powerful probe into the evolution of the high-energy universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-11 Tim Linden

Various studies have implied the existence of a gaseous halo around the Galaxy extending out to 100 kpc. Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) that propagate to the halo, either by diffusion or by convection with the possibly existing large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Ruo-Yu Liu , Huirong Yan , Xiang-Yu Wang , Shi Shao , Hui Li

The Universe is largely transparent to $\gamma$ rays in the GeV energy range, making these high-energy photons valuable for exploring energetic processes in the cosmos. After seven years of operation, the Fermi {\it Gamma-ray Space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 F. Massaro , D. J. Thompson , E. C. Ferrara
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