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The possible connection between high energy neutrinos in the energy region above 100 TeV and ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) at energies above $10^{19}$ eV motivates multi-messenger observation approaches involving neutrinos and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 Shigeru Yoshida

After the discovery of the gravitational waves and the observation of neutrinos of cosmic origin, we have entered a new and exciting era where cosmic rays, neutrinos, photons and gravitational waves will be used simultaneously to study the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-24 G. Torralba Elipe , R. A. Vazquez , E. Zas

This paper summarizes recents results in gamma-ray astronomy, most of which were derived with data from ground-based gamma-ray detectors. Many of the contributions presented at this conference involve multiwavelength studies which combine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl

Recent results, the present status and the perspectives of high energy gamma-ray astronomy are described. Since the satellite observations by the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and its precursor missions have been reviewed extensively,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Heinrich J. Völk

This is a review of high energy neutrino astronomy that might be done with a kilometer-scale detector. The emphasis is on diffuse neutrinos of extragalactic origin and their relation to possible sources of the highest energy cosmic rays,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. K. Gaisser

With the advent of time-domain astronomy and the game-changing next generation of telescopes, we have unprecedented opportunities to explore the most energetic events in our Universe through electromagnetic radiation, gravitational waves,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Irene Tamborra

A brief white paper is provided, discussing how the particle acceleration mechanisms taking place within astrophysical sources may mimic or mask signatures of new physics and the role that will be played by next-generation gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-30 Amanda Weinstein , Jonathan Dumm , Lucy Fortson , Reshmi Mukherjee

Cosmic ray astronomy attempts to identify and study the sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays. It is unique in its reliance on charged particles as the information carriers. While no discrete source of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Paul Sommers , Stefan Westerhoff

Astrophysical sources are extremely efficient accelerators. Some sources emit photons up to multi-TeV energies, a signature of the presence, within them, of particles with energies much higher than those achievable with the largest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-10 Elena Amato

Observations with next-generation ground-based detectors further enhanced with multi-messenger (electromagnetic and neutrino) detections will allow us to probe new extreme astrophysics. Target sources included: core-collapse supernovae,…

Very high energy {\gamma}-rays are one of the most important messengers of the non-thermal Universe. The major motivation of very high energy {\gamma}-ray astronomy is to find sources of high energy cosmic rays. Several astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 D. Bose , V. R. Chitnis , P. Majumdar , A. Shukla

The little we do know of the physical conditions in gamma-ray bursters makes them conducive to the acceleration of high-energy cosmic rays, especially if they are at cosmological distances. We find that, with the observed statistics and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mordehai Milgrom , Vladimir Usov

As the highest-energy photons, gamma rays have an inherent interest to astrophysicists and particle physicists studying high-energy, nonthermal processes. Gamma-ray telescopes complement those at other wavelengths, especially radio,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David J. Thompson

Multi-messenger high-energy astrophysics has currently achieved the potential to unravel the origin of cosmic rays and how sources accelerate them, their relation to the diffuse radiation in the extra-galactic space, and their role to forge…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Teresa Montaruli

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are relativistic cosmological beacons of transient high energy radiation whose afterglows span the electromagnetic spectrum. Theoretical expectations of correlated neutrino and/or gravitational wave (GW) emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-02-19 Michael Stamatikos , Neil Gehrels , Francis Halzen , Peter Meszaros , Peter W. A. Roming

Recent high energy gamma-ray observations of both single supernova remnants and superbubbles, together with observations of supernovae, star formation regions, and local cosmic ray composition, now provide an integrated framework tying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Richard E. Lingenfelter

We introduce neutrino astronomy from the observational fact that Nature accelerates protons and photons to energies in excess of 10^{20} and 10^{13} eV, respectively. Although the discovery of cosmic rays dates back close to a century, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Halzen

Very-high energy (GeV-TeV) gamma rays in the universe suggest the presence of an accelerator in the source. Neutrinos and gamma rays are intriguing astrophysical messengers. Multi-messenger particle emission produced by interactions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-22 Rodrigo Sasse , Adriel G. B. Mocellin , Rita C. dos Anjos , Carlos H. Coimbra-Araujo

Multimessenger observations may hold the key to learn about the most energetic sources in the universe. The recent construction of large scale observatories opened new possibilities in testing non thermal cosmic processes with alternative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 Dafne Guetta