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The observation of high-energy neutrinos from the direction of the nearby active galaxy, NGC 1068, was a major step in identifying the origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. The multimessenger data imply that high-energy neutrinos…

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Non-relativistic Dark Matter (DM) can be accelerated by scattering on high-energy cosmic-ray (CR) electrons. This process leads to a sub-population of relativistic or semi-relativistic DM which extends the experimental reach for direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Jayden L. Newstead , Ian M. Shoemaker , Natalia Tapia Arellano

In this study we quantify the properties of the gas and dark matter around active galactic nuclei (AGN) in simulated galaxy groups and clusters and analyze the effect of AGN feedback on the surrounding intra-cluster (group) medium. Our…

If sub-GeV Dark matter(DM) annihilates to the charged particles such as $e^+ e^-$, $\mu^+ \mu^-$, or $\pi^+ \pi^-$, it generates an additional source of electrons and positrons in the cosmic ray (CR) population within our Milky Way. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Guansen Wang , Bing-Yu Su , Lei Zu , Lei Feng

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) produce the highest intrinsic luminosities in the Universe from within a compact region. The central engine is thought to be powered by accretion onto a supermassive black hole. A fraction of this huge release…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-07 Beatriz Agís González , Damien Hutsemékers , Giovanni Miniutti

We identify a largely model-independent signature of dark matter interactions with nucleons and electrons. Dark matter in the local galactic halo, gravitationally accelerated to over half the speed of light, scatters against and deposits…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-04 Masha Baryakhtar , Joseph Bramante , Shirley Weishi Li , Tim Linden , Nirmal Raj

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are believed to be the source of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). Particles are assumed to be accelerated in the accretion disk and the plasma jets, produced due to conservation of angular momentum, to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Isaac Saba , Julia Becker Tjus , Francis Halzen

Mysteries about the origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos have deepened by the recent IceCube measurement of a large diffuse flux in the 10-100 TeV range. Based on the standard disk-corona picture of active galactic nuclei (AGN), we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-11 Kohta Murase , Shigeo S. Kimura , Peter Meszaros

The co-evolution between supermassive black holes and their environment is most directly traced by the hot atmospheres of dark matter halos. Cooling of the hot atmosphere supplies the central regions with fresh gas, igniting active galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-29 Dominique Eckert , Massimo Gaspari , Fabio Gastaldello , Amandine M. C. Le Brun , Ewan O'Sullivan

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are believed to be one of the main source candidates for the high-energy (TeV-PeV) cosmic neutrino flux recently discovered by the IceCube neutrino observatory. Nevertheless, several correlation studies between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 G. Maggi , S. Buitink , P. Correa , K. D. de Vries , G. Gentile , J. Leon Tavares , O. Scholten , N. van Eijndhoven , M. Vereecken , T. Winchen

Cosmic ray (CR) upscattering of dark matter is considered as one of the most straightforward mechanisms to accelerate ambient dark matter, making it detectable at high threshold, large volume experiments. In this work, we revisit CR…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-02 Christopher Cappiello , Qinrui Liu , Gopolang Mohlabeng , Aaron C. Vincent

Antimatter nuclei in cosmic rays (CR) represent a promising discovery channel for the indirect search of dark matter. We present astrophysical background calculations of CR antideuteron ($\overline{d}$) and antihelium ($\overline{He}$).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Nicola Tomassetti , Alberto Oliva

Active Galactic Nuclei are considered as possible sites of cosmic ray acceleration and some of them have been observed as high energy gamma ray emitters (Blazars). There naturally comes an appealing idea that the acceleration of the highest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 G. Henri , G. Pelletier , P. O. Petrucci , N. Renaud

We study the impact of the interaction between DM and the cosmic neutrino background on the evolution of galactic dark matter halos. The energy transfer from the neutrinos to the dark matter can heat the center of the galaxy and make it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-12 Wonsub Cho , Ki-Young Choi , Hee Jung Kim

The majority of the highest energy cosmic rays are thought to be electrically charged: protons or nuclei. Charged particles experience angular deflections as they pass through galactic and extra-galactic magnetic fields. As a consequence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. D. Hague , J. A. J. Matthews , B. R. Becker , M. S. Gold

The apparent gamma-ray excess in the Galactic center region and inner Galaxy has attracted considerable interest, notably because both its spectrum and radial distribution are consistent with an interpretation in terms of annihilating dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-03 Torsten Bringmann , Martin Vollmann , Christoph Weniger

Neutron stars offer powerful astrophysical laboratories to probe the properties of dark matter. Gradual accumulation of heavy, non-annihilating dark matter in neutron stars can lead to the formation of comparable-mass black holes, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Anupam Ray

Recent astronomical observations reveal that Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are sources of high-energy radiation. For example, the Fermi-LAT and Hess telescopes have detected gamma-ray emissions from the cores of several types of AGN's. Even…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-15 J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez , Angelo Martinez

Dark matter particles gravitationally trapped inside the Sun may annihilate into Standard Model particles, producing a flux of neutrinos. The prospects of detecting these neutrinos in future multi-\kton{} neutrino detectors designed for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Sanjib K. Agarwalla , Mattias Blennow , Enrique Fernandez Martinez , Olga Mena

(Abridged) Data collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory (Auger) provide evidence for anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays (CRs) with energies >57 EeV that suggests a correlation with the positions of AGN located within ~75…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Igor V. Moskalenko , Lukasz Stawarz , Troy A. Porter , Chi C. Cheung