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Reducing theoretical uncertainties in Galactic dark matter (DM) searches is an important challenge as several experiments are now delving into the parameter space relevant to popular (particle or not) candidates. Since many DM signal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-20 Thomas Lacroix , Arturo Núñez-Castiñeyra , Martin Stref , Julien Lavalle , Emmanuel Nezri

Diffuse emission from the Milky Way dominates the gamma-ray sky. About 80% of the high-energy luminosity of the Milky Way comes from processes in the interstellar medium. The Galactic diffuse emission traces interactions of energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-25 T. A. Porter , S. W. Digel , I. A. Grenier , I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong

We investigate the viability of the Galactic halo model of $\gamma$-ray bursts by calculating the spatial distribution of neutron stars born with high velocities in the Galactic disk, and comparing the resulting brightness and angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Tomasz Bulik , Donald Q. Lamb

Weakly interacting massive dark matter (DM) particles are expected to self-annihilate or decay, generating high-energy photons in these processes. This establishes the possibility for indirect detection of DM by \gamma-ray telescopes. For…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-17 Moritz Hütten , Gernot Maier

The rotation curve of the Milky Way is commonly used to estimate the local dark matter density $\rho_{{\rm DM},\odot}$. However, the estimates are subject to the choice of the distribution of baryons needed in this type of studies. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 P. F. de Salas , K. Malhan , K. Freese , K. Hattori , M. Valluri

A method is presented to derive electron temperatures and densities of planetary nebulae (PNe) simultaneously, using the observed hydrogen recombination spectrum, which includes continuum and line emission. By matching theoretical spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Zhang , X. -W. Liu , R. Wesson , P. J. Storey , Y. Liu , I. J. Danziger

We present here a method to study the distribution of electron density fluctuations in pulsar directions as well as to estimate pulsar distances. The method, based on a simple two-component model of the scattering medium discussed by Gwinn…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. A. Deshpande , R. Ramachandran

We propose a data-driven approach to reconstruct the all-sky distribution of the dispersion measure contribution from the Galactic halo ($\mathrm{DM_{halo}}$) through a spherical harmonic expansion, enabling an investigation of its possible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-07 Yang Liu , Bao Wang , Puxun Wu , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

An important contribution to the gamma-ray emission of our Galaxy is the Galactic Diffuse emission. We present specific developments within the PICARD code for modeling of Galactic cosmic ray propagation that are relevant for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-26 Felix Niederwanger , Olaf Reimer , Ralf Kissmann , Richard Tuffs

Emission from the interstellar medium can be a significant contaminant of measurements of the intensity and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). For planning CMB observations, and for optimizing foreground-cleaning…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Ben Thorne , Lloyd Knox , Karthik Prabhu

The predictive power of the outer gap model of high energy emission from pulsars is used to analyze the Parkes Multibeam pulsar survey. We find that most of the radio pulsars of the Parkes catalog are not $\gamma$-ray emitters according to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Diego F. Torres , Sebastian E. Nuza

(Abridged) We constrain simulated all-sky maps in total intensity, linear polarization, and rotation measure (RM) by observations. We test a number of large-scale magnetic field configurations and take the properties of the warm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 X. H. Sun , W. Reich , A. Waelkens , T. Enßlin

We study the density profile and shape of the Galactic halo using deep multicolour images from the MENeaCS and CCCP projects, over 33 fields selected to avoid overlap with the Galactic plane. Using multicolour selection and PSF…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 B. Pila-Díez , J. T. A. de Jong , K. Kuijken , R. F. J. van der Burg , H. Hoekstra

Recently, the Large High-Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) collaboration has obtained a measurement of the gamma-ray diffuse emission in the ultra-high energy range, $10-10^3$ TeV after masking the contribution of known sources. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Vittoria Vecchiotti , Giada Peron , Elena Amato , Stefano Menchiari , Giovanni Morlino , Giulia Pagliaroli , Francesco L. Villante

Radio emission from pulsars can be used to map out their distances through dispersion measure (DM), which quantifies the amount of radio pulse dispersion. However, this method relies on accurately modelling the free electron density in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-11 Karri I. I. Koljonen , Sindre S. Lindseth , Manuel Linares , Alice K. Harding , Marco Turchetta

We use the radiation transfer simulation of Xilouris et al. (1999) to constrain the quantity of dust in three nearby spiral galaxies (NGC 4013, NGC 5907 and NGC 891). The predicted visual optical depth from the model is compared with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. M. Xilouris

Fast radio bursts offer the opportunity to place new constraints on the mass and density profile of hot and ionized gas in galactic haloes. We test here the X-ray emission and dispersion measure predicted by different gas profiles for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Laura C. Keating , Ue-Li Pen

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

The precise localization (<1'') of multiple fast radio bursts (FRBs) to z>0.1 galaxies has confirmed that the dispersion measures (DMs) of these enigmatic sources afford a new opportunity to probe the diffuse ionized gas around and in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-06 J. Xavier Prochaska , Yong Zheng