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The first evidence of the gamma-ray emission from the quiescent Sun was found in the archival EGRET data that was later confirmed by Fermi-LAT observations with high significance. This emission is produced by Galactic cosmic rays (CRs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-29 Elena Orlando , Nicola Giglietto , Igor Moskalenko , Silvia Raino' , Andrew Strong

The radio emission of the quiet Sun in the metric and decametric bands has not been well studied historically due to limitations of existing instruments. It is nominally dominated by thermal brehmsstrahlung of the solar corona, but may also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-05 Kamen Kozarev , Mohamed Nedal

The study of the quiet Sun in gamma rays started over a decade ago, and rapidly gained a wide interest. Gamma rays from the quiet Sun are produced by Cosmic Rays (CRs) interacting with its surface (disk component) and with its photon field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-05 Elena Orlando , Andrew Strong

Incoherent solar radio radiation comes from the free-free, gyroresonance, and gyrosynchrotron emission mechanisms. Free-free is primarily produced from Coulomb collisions between thermal electrons and ions. Gyroresonance and gyrosynchrotron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-30 A. Nindos

Very recently, HAWC observatory discovered the high-energy gamma ray emission from the solar disk during the quiescent stage of the Sun, extending the Fermi-LAT detection of intense, hard emission between 0.1 - 200 GeV to TeV energies. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-19 Prabir Banik , Arunava Bhadra , Sanjay K. Ghosh

Gamma rays are produced by cosmic ray (CR) protons interacting with the particles at solar photosphere and by cosmic ray electrons and positrons (CRes) via inverse Compton scattering of solar photons. The former come from the solar disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Vahe' Petrosian , Elena Orlando , Andrew Strong

Synchrotron radiation of relativistic electrons is an important radiation mechanism in many astrophysical sources. In the sources where the synchrotron cooling time scale $t_c$ is shorter than the dynamical time scale $t_{dyn}$, electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Z. Lucas Uhm , Bing Zhang

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board Fermi has detected high-energy gamma rays from the quiet Sun produced by interactions of cosmic-ray nucleons with the solar surface and cosmic-ray electrons with solar photons in the heliosphere. Such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Elena Orlando , Nicola Giglietto

The Sun produces a steady signal of high-energy gamma rays through interactions of Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) with its atmosphere. Observations with Fermi-LAT and HAWC have revealed a gamma-ray flux significantly higher than early…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-19 Julien Dörner , Frederic Effenberger , Horst Fichtner , Julia Becker Tjus , Meng Jin , Wei Liu , Vahe' Petrosian

The basic mechanism responsible for radio emission in radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is assumed to be synchrotron radiation. We suggest here that radio emission in radio-quiet objects is also due to synchrotron radiation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 W. Ishibashi , T. J. -L. Courvoisier

Low-frequency radio observations of diffuse synchrotron radiation offer a unique vantage point for investigating the intricate relationship between gas and magnetic fields in the formation of structures within the Galaxy, spanning from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-29 Andrea Bracco , Marco Padovani , Daniele Galli

Synchrotron diffuse radiation (SDR) emission is one of the major Galactic components, in the 100 MHz up to 100 GHz frequency range. Its spectrum and sky map provide valuable measure of the galactic cosmic ray electrons (GCRE) in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-08 Giuseppe Di Bernardo , Dario Grasso , Carmelo Evoli , Daniele Gaggero

We study the synchrotron radiation as the observed non-thermal X-ray emission from old pulsars ($\gtrsim1-10$Myr) to investigate the particle acceleration in their magnetospheres. We assume that the power-law component of the observed X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Shota Kisaka , Shuta J. Tanaka

The observed multi-GeV gamma-ray emission from the solar disk --- sourced by hadronic cosmic rays interacting with gas, and affected by complex magnetic fields --- is not understood. Utilizing an improved analysis of the Fermi-LAT data that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-03 Tim Linden , Bei Zhou , John F. Beacom , Annika H. G. Peter , Kenny C. Y. Ng , Qing-Wen Tang

We calculate the flux of radio, hard X-ray and UV radiation from clusters of galaxies as produced by synchrotron emission and Inverse Compton Scattering of electrons generated as secondaries in cosmic ray interactions in the intracluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-09 P. Blasi , S. Colafrancesco

Observations with the RXTE and SAX satellites have recently led to the measurement of a second component in the spectra of several clusters of galaxies which are known to have regions of extended radio emission. This new component is quite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yoel Rephaeli

We investigate the diffusion of cosmic rays into molecular cloud complexes. Using the cosmic-ray diffusion formalism of Protheroe, et al. (2008), we examine how cosmic rays diffuse into clouds exhibiting different density structures,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 D. I. Jones

Synchrotron radiation from accelerated electrons above the photosphere of a relativistic ejecta is a natural candidate for the dominant process for the prompt GRB emission. There is however a tension between the predicted low-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-29 Frédéric Daigne , Željka Bošnjak

In this paper, we propose that the accelerated electrons in the quiet Sun could collide with the solar atmosphere to emit Hard X-rays (HXRs) via non-thermal bremsstrahlung, while some of these electrons would move upwards and escape into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-31 Wen Wang , Linghua Wang , Sam Krucker , Iain Hannah

We study non-thermal emissions from cool cores in galaxy clusters. We adopted a recent model, in which cosmic-rays (CRs) prevail in the cores and stably heat them through CR streaming. The non-thermal emissions come from the interaction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira
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