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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has measured astrophysical neutrinos using through-going and starting events in the TeV to PeV energy range. The origin of these astrophysical neutrinos is still largely unresolved, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Barbara Skrzypek , Marco Chianese , Carlos Argüelles Delgado

Dark matter annihilation and other processes may precipitate a flux of diffuse ultra-high energy $\gamma$-rays. These $\gamma$-rays may be observable in present day experiments which observe diffuse fluxes at the GeV scale. Yet the universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John A. Cairns

The interaction of cosmic rays with the gas contained in our Galaxy is a guaranteed source of diffuse high energy neutrinos. We provide expectations for this component by considering different assumptions for the cosmic ray distribution in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-09 G. Pagliaroli , C. Evoli , F. L. Villante

The Milky Way hosts astrophysical accelerators capable of producing high-energy cosmic rays. These cosmic rays can interact with the interstellar medium (ISM) across the Galaxy to produce neutrinos and gamma rays (propagation component),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Mohadeseh Ozlati Moghadam , Kathrin Egberts , Rowan Batzofin , Constantin Steppa , Elisa Bernardini

We report a possible detection of TeV gamma-rays from the Galactic Center by the Whipple 10m gamma-ray telescope. Twenty-six hours of data were taken over an extended period from 1995 through 2003 resulting in a total significance of 3.7…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Kosack , the VERITAS Collaboration

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has detected multiple ultra-high energy (UHE; E$_\gamma \ge$ 100 TeV) gamma-ray sources in the Milky Way Galaxy, which are associated with Galactic ``PeVatrons'' that accelerate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Agnibha De Sarkar , Pratik Majumdar

Arrival directions of 63 extensive air showers with energies 4 10^19<E<=3 10^20 eV detected by the AGASA, Yakutsk, and Haverah Park arrays are analysed in order to identify possible sources of cosmic rays with these energies. We searched…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Uryson

The origin of the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) has been intensively studied but remains unsettled. Current popular source candidates include unresolved star-forming galaxies, starburst galaxies, and blazars. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Amy Lien , Brian D. Fields

We consider a possibility of identification of sources of cosmic rays (CR) of the energy above 1 TeV via observation of degree-scale extended gamma-ray emission which traces the locations of recent sources in the Galaxy. Such emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz

We study the properties of the diffuse gamma-ray background around the Galactic plane at energies 20 -- 200 GeV. We find that the spectrum of this emission possesses significant spacial variations with respect to the average smooth…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-29 Alexey Boyarsky , Denys Malyshev , Oleg Ruchayskiy

A detailed multi-messenger study of the high-energy emission from the Galactic plane is possible nowadays thanks to the observations provided by gamma and neutrino telescopes and could be mandatory in order to obtain a consistent scenario.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 G. Pagliaroli , F. L. Villante

Gamma rays from TeV blazars have been detected by ground-based experiments for more than two decades. We have collected the most extensive set of archival spectra from these sources in order to constrain the processes affecting gamma-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Jonathan Biteau , David A. Williams

The nature of the unidentified gamma-ray point sources in the galactic plane is a long standing puzzle of gamma-ray astronomy. Kaaret and Cottam (1996) showed that 16 of the 25 unidentified gamma-ray point sources near the galactic plane…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip Kaaret

The origin of sub-TeV gamma rays detected by the \textit{Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) from the \textit{Fermi} Bubbles (FBs) at the Galactic center is still uncertain. In a hadronic model, acceleration of protons and/or nuclei and their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 Lili Yang , Soebur Razzaque

The Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA) is a major component of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Array Observatory (LHAASO), a new generation cosmic-ray experiment with unprecedented sensitivity, currently under construction. The WCDA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 Yingying Guo , Xiaochuan Chang , Hongbo Hu , Zhiguo Yao

Air-shower measurements in the primary energy range beyond 10 TeV can be used to address important questions of astroparticle and particle physics. The most prominent among these questions are the search for the origin of charged Galactic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-25 Martin Tluczykont , Daniel Hampf , Dieter Horns , Dominik Spitschan , Leonid Kuzmichev , Vasily Prosin , Christian Spiering , Ralf Wischnewski

The Galactic diffuse emission is potentially able to reveal much about the sources and propagation of cosmic rays (CR), their spectra and intensities in distant locations. It can possibly unveil WIMP dark matter (DM) through its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong

Various studies have implied the existence of a gaseous halo around the Galaxy extending out to 100 kpc. Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) that propagate to the halo, either by diffusion or by convection with the possibly existing large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Ruo-Yu Liu , Huirong Yan , Xiang-Yu Wang , Shi Shao , Hui Li

LHAASO J2108+5157 is one of the few ultra-high energy gamma-ray sources in the LHAASO catalogue without secure counterpart at longer wavelengths. Several Galactic scenarios have been proposed, including an evolved supernova remnant and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-12 Josep Martí , Pedro L. Luque-Escamilla , Josep M. Paredes , José Martínez Aroza

In the recent years, the number of detected very high energy (VHE: E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray sources has increased rapidly. The sources have been observed at redshifts up to z = 0.536 without strong indications for the presence of absorption…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Dieter Horns , Manuel Meyer
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