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The multi-TeV $\gamma$-rays from the Galactic Center (GC) have a cutoff at tens of TeV, whereas the diffuse emission has no such cutoff, which is regarded as an indication of PeV proton acceleration by the HESS experiment. It is important…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 Yi-Qing Guo , Zhen Tian , Zhen Wang , Hai-Jin Li , Tian-Lu Chen

In 1990's Very High Energy Gamma-ray Astrophysics has dramatically advanced due to the Imaging Air \v{C}erenkov Telescopes(IACTs). After the first detection of TeV gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula in 1989, several type of TeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Toru Tanimori

This is a review of neutrino astronomy anchored to 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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Francis Halzen , Dan Hooper

While Supernova Remnants (SNRs) are widely considered the primary accelerators of cosmic rays (CRs) up to hundreds of TeV, they struggle to account for the CR flux at PeV energies, suggesting the existence of additional PeVatrons.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Alberto Bonollo , Paolo Esposito , Andrea Giulisni , Silvia Crestan , Giorgio Galanti , Sandro Mereghetti , Michela Rigoselli

The identification of Cosmic Ray (CR) sources represents one of the biggest and long-standing questions in astrophysics. Direct measurements of cosmic rays cannot provide directional information due to their deflection in (extra)galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-20 Julien Dörner , Leonel Morejon , Karl-Heinz Kampert , Jula Becker Tjus

The recent discovery of a new population of ultra-high-energy gamma-ray sources with spectra extending beyond 100 TeV revealed the presence of Galactic PeVatrons - cosmic-ray factories accelerating particles to PeV energies. These sources,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Rubén López-Coto , Elena Amato , Felix Aharonian

LHAASO detected 12 gamma-ray sources above 100 TeV which are the possible origins of Galactic cosmic-rays. We summarize the neutrino measurements by IceCube and ANTARES in the vicinity of LHAASO sources to constrain the contribution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Tian-Qi Huang , Zhuo Li

The identification of active PeVatrons, hadronic particle accelerators reaching the knee of the cosmic-ray spectrum (at the energy of few PeV), is crucial to understand the origin of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. In this context, we report on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 L. Giunti , B. Khelifi , K. Kosack , R. Terrier

Identification of the cosmic-ray (CR) `PeVatrons', which are sources capable of accelerating particles to $\sim10^{15}$ eV energies and higher, may lead to resolving the long-standing question of the origin of the spectral feature in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 Troy A. Porter , Gavin P. Rowell , Gudlaugur Johannesson , Igor V. Moskalenko

In cosmic ray physics extensive progress has been made in recent years, both concerning theory and observation. The vast details in direct, indirect and secondary detections on the one hand provide the basis for a detailed modeling of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-11 Julia Becker Tjus , Lukas Merten

The origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays (CRs) and the possibility of Supernova Remnants (SNRs) being potential CR accelerators is still an open debate. The charged CRs can be detected indirectly by the {\gamma}-ray observatories through the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-21 Pooja Sharma , Ziwei Ou , Charles Henry-Cadrot , Coline Dubos , Tiina Suomijärvi

In the past few years, gamma-ray astronomy has entered a golden age. At TeV energies, only a handful of sources were known a decade ago, but the current generation of ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes has increased this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 Marianne Lemoine-Goumard

Galactic cosmic rays are commonly believed to be accelerated at supernova remnants via diffusive shock acceleration. Despite the popularity of this idea, a conclusive proof for its validity is still missing. Gamma-ray astronomy provides us…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Acero , A. Bamba , S. Casanova , E. de Cea , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , S. Gabici , Y. Gallant , D. Hadasch , A. Marcowith , G. Pedaletti , O. Reimer , M. Renaud , D. F. Torres , F. Volpe

Recent international efforts have brought us closer to unveiling the century old mystery of the origin of cosmic rays. Cosmic ray, gamma ray, and neutrino observatories are reaching the necessary sensitivity to study the highest energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-16 Angela V. Olinto

Celestial sources emitting at high-energy (HE, E > 100 MeV) and at very high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-rays are of the order of a few thousands and a few hundreds, respectively. On the other hand, the number of sources emitting at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-21 Stefano Vercellone

The recent HESS detections of supernova remnant shells in TeV gamma-rays confirm the theoretical predictions that supernova remnants can operate as powerful cosmic ray accelerators. If these objects are responsible for the bulk of galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefano Gabici , Felix A. Aharonian

The Tibet ASgamma experiment just reported their measurement of sub-PeV diffuse gamma ray emission from the Galactic disk, with the highest energy up to 957 TeV. These gamma-rays are most likely the hadronic origin by cosmic ray interaction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-09 Bing-Qiang Qiao , Wei Liu , Meng-Jie Zhao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Yi-Qing Guo

The latest results from PAMELA and FERMI experiments confirm the necessity to improve theoretical models of production and propagation of galactic electrons and positrons. There are many possible explanations for the positron excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 Roberto A. Lineros

Supernova remnants (SNRs) have long been considered to be the dominant source of Galactic cosmic rays, which implied that they provided most of the energy to power cosmic rays as well as being PeVatrons. The lack of evidence for PeV cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-27 Jacco Vink

Observational gamma-ray astronomy was born some forty years ago, when small detectors were flown in satellites, following a decade of theoretical predictions of its potential to discover the origin of cosmic rays via the pi-zero decay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-02 Thierry Montmerle