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It is expected that specific globular clusters can contain up to a hundred of millisecond pulsars. These pulsars can accelerate leptons at the shock waves originated in collisions of the pulsar winds and/or inside the pulsar magnetospheres.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 W. Bednarek , J. Sitarek

The distribution of cosmic rays in the Galaxy at energies above few TeVs is still uncertain and this affects the expectations for the diffuse gamma flux produced by hadronic interactions of cosmic rays with the interstellar gas. We show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Cataldo , G. Pagliaroli , V. Vecchiotti , F. L. Villante

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 energetic pulsar, PSR J2032+4127, has been recently discovered in the direction of the unidentified HEGRA TeV gamma-ray source (TeV J2032+4130). It is proposed that this pulsar forms a binary system with the Be type star, MT91 213,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-07 Wlodek Bednarek , Piotr Banasinski , Julian Sitarek

IceCube collaboration reported the first high-significance observation of the neutrino emission from the Galactic disk. The observed signal can be due to diffuse emission produced by cosmic rays interacting with interstellar gas but can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-25 Vittoria Vecchiotti , Francesco L. Villante , Giulia Pagliaroli

Astrophysical sources outside the Milky Way, such as active galactic nuclei and star-forming galaxies, leave their imprint on the gamma-ray sky as nearly isotropic emission referred to as the Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background (EGB). While…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-12 Mariangela Lisanti , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Lina Necib , Benjamin R. Safdi

The Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission is conventionally modeled as the product of cosmic-ray interactions with the interstellar medium. However, the cumulative contribution of stellar atmospheres acting as hadronic interaction targets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Yanbo Wang , Zhenglong Wang , Rui Zhang , Yi Zhang

A gamma-ray burst (GRB) jet running into an external medium is expected to generate luminous GeV-TeV emission lasting from minutes to several hours. The high-energy emission results from inverse Compton upscattering of prompt and afterglow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Indrek Vurm , Andrei M. Beloborodov

Prospects of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) for the study of very high energy gamma-ray emission from nearby star-forming galaxies are investigated. In the previous work, we constructed a model to calculate luminosity and energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Naoya Shimono , Tomonori Totani , Takahiro Sudoh

Simulations of Galactic CR transport were performed with the software GALPROP, with the resulting gamma-ray flux calculated up to the PeV regime. The impact of altering parameters such as the number and distribution of CR sources, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Peter Marinos

The detection of TeV gamma-rays from the blazar H 1426+428 at an integral flux level of (4 +- 2(stat) +- 1(syst)) 10^(-12) erg cm^(-2) s^(-1) above 1 TeV with the HEGRA imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope system is reported. H 1426+428…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 HEGRA Collaboration , F. Aharonian

Cosmic rays in the inner solar system are subject to deflection by both the geomagnetic and interplanetary magnetic fields, and simultaneously interact with the Sun's photosphere resulting in the production of gamma rays. This phenomenon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-15 Mehr Un Nisa

More than 90% of the Galactic gas-related gamma-ray emissivity above 1 GeV is attributed to the decay of neutral pions formed in collisions between cosmic rays and interstellar matter, with lepton-induced processes becoming increasingly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 C. D. Dermer , A. W. Strong , E. Orlando , L. Tibaldo

In recent years, blazar surveys at radio and X-ray energies have greatly increased our understanding of this type of active galaxy. The combination of multi-wavelength data has shown that blazars follow a well defined sequence in terms of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. de la Calle Perez

Using data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, a spatially extended component of gamma rays has been identified from the direction of the Galactic Center, peaking at energies of ~2-3 GeV. More recently, it has been shown that this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-30 Dan Hooper , Ilias Cholis , Tim Linden , Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins , Tracy Slatyer

Cosmic Rays (CRs) interact with the diffuse gas, radiation, and magnetic fields in the interstellar medium (ISM) to produce electromagnetic emissions that are a significant component of the all-sky flux across a broad wavelength range. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 P. D. Marinos , G. P. Rowell , T. A. Porter , G. Jóhannesson

Here we investigate to what extent unresolved \gr pulsars contribute to the galactic diffuse emission, and further whether unresolved \gr pulsars can be made responsible for the excess of diffuse galactic emission above 1 GeV which has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Martin Pohl

Context. Star clusters are often invoked as contributors to the flux of Galactic cosmic rays and as sources potentially able to accelerate particles to $\sim$PeV energies. The gamma radiation with $E\gtrsim$ TeV recently observed from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Pasquale Blasi

A number of Galactic sources emit GeV-TeV gamma rays that are produced through leptonic and/or hadronic mechanisms. Spectral analysis in this energy range is crucial in order to understand the emission mechanisms. The HAWC Gamma-Ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Hao Zhou , C. Michelle Hui , Petra Huentemeyer

The diffuse gamma-ray emission between 10 and 1000 TeV from the Galactic plane was recently measured by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO). These observations will help tremendously in constraining the propagation and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-06 Rui Zhang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Zhi-Hui Xu , Shiping Zhao , Qiang Yuan