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Nearby pulsars have been suggested as sources of $\sim$TeV $e^+/e^-$ Cosmic Ray (CR) excess on Earth. The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) detected extended TeV emission regions in the direction of two nearby middle-aged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Xiaping Tang , Tsvi Piran

A novel phenomenon among the recently observed Geminga pulsar halo is the presence of distinct radiation morphology at high energies, while no extended radiation is detected in the 10-500 GeV energy band within a $40\degree\times40\degree$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Lin Nie , Yu-Hai Ge , Yi-Qing Guo , Si-Ming Liu

Measuring the electron diffusion coefficient is the most straightforward task in the study of gamma-ray pulsar halos. The updated measurements of the spatial morphology and spectrum of the Geminga halo by the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Kun Fang

Nearby pulsars within $\sim1\,{\rm kpc}$ are considered to be possible sources of 10-500 GeV cosmic-ray positron excess measured by PAMELA and AMS-02. A TeV halo around Geminga is detected by HAWC, and the measurements of its surface…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Yu Meng , Yun-Feng Liang , Ben-Yang Zhu , Xiao-Na Sun , En-Wei Liang

The HAWC Collaboration has recently reported the detection of bright and spatially extended multi-TeV gamma-ray emission from Geminga, Monogem, and a handful of other nearby, middle-aged pulsars. The angular profile of the emission observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

The recent HAWC observations of very-high-energy $\gamma$-ray halo around Geminga and Monogem indicate a very slow diffusion of cosmic rays, which results in tiny contribution of positrons from these two pulsars to the local flux. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-15 Kun Fang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin , Qiang Yuan

Recently, a few-degrees extended $\gamma$-ray halo in the direction of Geminga pulsar has been detected by HAWC, Milagro and Fermi-LAT. These observations can be interpreted with positrons ($e^+$) and electrons ($e^-$) accelerated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-07 Mattia Di Mauro , Silvia Manconi , Fiorenza Donato

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 was discovered by Milagro and later confirmed by HAWC, which are both water…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , J. Aschersleben , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , V. Barbosa Martins , R. Batzofin , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , K. Bernlöhr , B. Bi , M. Böttcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , J. Borowska , M. Bouyahiaoui , F. Bradascio , R. Brose , F. Brun , B. Bruno , T. Bulik , C. Burger Scheidlin , F. Cangemi , S. Caroff , S. Casanova , J. Celic , M. Cerruti , P. Chambery , T. Chand , S. Chandra , A. Chen , J. Chibueze , O. Chibueze , G. Cotter , J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye , J. Devin , A. Djannati-Ataï , A. Dmytriiev , K. Egberts , S. Einecke , J. P. Ernenwein , K. Feijen , G. Fichet de Clairfontaine , M. Filipovic , G. Fontaine , M. Füssling , S. Funk , S. Gabici , Y. A. Gallant , S. Ghafourizadeh , G. Giavitto , L. Giunti , D. Glawion , J. F. Glicenstein , P. Goswami , G. Grolleron , M. -H. Grondin , L. Haerer , M. Haupt , G. Hermann , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , T. L. Holch , M. Holler , D. Horns , Zhiqiu Huang , M. Jamrozy , F. Jankowsky , V. Joshi , I. Jung-Richardt , E. Kasai , K. Katarzyński , B. Khélifi , W. Kluźniak , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , R. G. Lang , S. Le Stum , F. Leitl , A. Lemière , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , F. Leuschner , T. Lohse , A. Luashvili , I. Lypova , J. Mackey , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , P. Marchegiani , A. Marcowith , P. Marinos , G. Martí-Devesa , R. Marx , G. Maurin , P. J. Meintjes , M. Meyer , A. Mitchell , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , A. Montanari , E. Moulin , J. Muller , K. Nakashima , M. de Naurois , J. Niemiec , A. Priyana Noel , P. O'Brien , S. Ohm , L. Olivera-Nieto , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , M. Ostrowski , S. Panny , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , G. Peron , D. A. Prokhorov , G. Pühlhofer , A. Quirrenbach , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Renaud , B. Reville , F. Rieger , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , H. Rueda Ricarte , E. Ruiz-Velasco , V. Sahakian , H. Salzmann , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , F. Schüssler , H. M. Schutte , U. Schwanke , J. N. S. Shapopi , A. Sinha , H. Sol , A. Specovius , S. Spencer , Ł. Stawarz , S. Steinmassl , I. Sushch , H. Suzuki , T. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , T. Tavernier , A. M. Taylor , R. Terrier , C. Thorpe-Morgan , M. Tsirou , N. Tsuji , M. Vecchi , C. Venter , J. Vink , S. J. Wagner , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , Yu Wun Wong , M. Zacharias , D. Zargaryan , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , S. Zouari , N. Żywucka

Diffusive shock acceleration and diffusion propagation are essential components of the standard cosmic ray model. These theories are based on extensive observations of high-energy solar processes, providing substantial direct evidence in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Weikang Gao , Li-Zhuo Bao , Kun Fang , En-sheng Chen , Siming Liu , HongBo Hu

The HAWC Collaboration has discovered a $\gamma$-ray emission extended about 2 degrees around the Geminga and Monogem pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) at $\gamma$-ray energies $E_\gamma >5$ TeV. We analyze, for the first time, almost 10 years of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-25 Mattia Di Mauro , Silvia Manconi , Fiorenza Donato

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

Recently, the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) collaboration reported the discovery of the TeV halo around the Geminga pulsar. The TeV emission is believed to originate from inverse Compton scattering of pulsar-injected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-26 Ruo-Yu Liu , Chong Ge , Xiao-Na Sun , Xiang-Yu Wang

Geminga is the first pulsar around which a remarkable TeV gamma-ray halo extending over a few degrees was discovered by MILAGRO, HAWC and later by H.E.S.S., and by Fermi-LAT in the GeV band. More middle-aged pulsars have exhibited gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 Silvia Manconi , Jooyun Woo , Ruo-Yu Shang , Roman Krivonos , Claudia Tang , Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato , Kaya Mori , Charles J. Hailey

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

The gamma-ray halo surrounding Geminga suggests a notable reduction in cosmic-ray diffusion. One potential explanation for this phenomenon is the projection effect of slow diffusion perpendicular to the average magnetic field (represented…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-04 Junji Xia , Xiaojun Bi , Kun Fang , Siming Liu

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

Geminga pulsar is surrounded by a multi-TeV $\gamma$-ray halo radiated by the high energy electrons and positrons accelerated by the central pulsar wind nebula (PWN). The angular profile of the $\gamma$-ray emission reported by HAWC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Kun Fang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

Cosmic ray electrons and positrons are tracers of particle propagation in the interstellar medium (ISM). A recent measurement performed using H.E.S.S. extends the all-electron (electron+positron) spectrum up to 20TeV, probing very local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-08 R. López-Coto , R. D. Parsons , J. A. Hinton , G. Giacinti

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

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
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