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Pion decay gamma rays have long been recognized as a unique signature of hadronic cosmic rays and their interactions with the interstellar medium. We present a model-independent way of constraining this signal with observations of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tijana Prodanovic , Brian D. Fields , John F. Beacom

The Earth is bombarded by ultra-relativistic particles, known as cosmic rays (CRs). CRs with energies up to a few PeV (=10$^{15}$ eV), the knee in the particle spectrum, are believed to have a Galactic origin. One or more factories of PeV…

We discuss the prospects of detecting the sources of ultra-high energy (UHE) cosmic ray (CR) nuclei via their emission of cosmogenic gamma-rays in the GeV to TeV energy range. These gamma-rays result from electromagnetic cascades initiated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-29 Markus Ahlers , Jordi Salvado

GeV and TeV gamma rays have been detected from the supernova remnant W28 and its surroundings. Such emission correlates quite well with the position of dense and massive molecular clouds and thus it is often interpreted as the result of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-28 S. Gabici , S. Casanova , F. A. Aharonian , G. Rowell

Diffusive shock acceleration in supernova remnants is the most widely invoked paradigm to explain the Galactic cosmic ray spectrum. Cosmic rays escaping supernova remnants diffuse in the interstellar medium and collide with the ambient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Casanova , D. I. Jones , F. A. Aharonian , Y. Fukui , S. Gabici , A. Kawamura , T. Onishi , G. Rowell , H. Sano , K. Torii , H. Yamamoto

High energy $\gamma$ rays from Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) carry direct information about the spatial and energy distributions of Galactic Cosmic Rays (CRs). The recently released catalogs of GMCs contain sufficiently massive clouds to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Felix Aharonian , Giada Peron , Ruizhi Yang , Sabrina Casanova , Roberta Zanin

Recent observations with atmospheric Cherenkov telescope systems such as H.E.S.S. and MAGIC have revealed a large number of new sources of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays from 100 GeV - 100 TeV, mostly concentrated along the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Funk , O. Reimer , D. F. Torres , J. A. Hinton

High-energy gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane above ~100 MeV is composed of three main contributions: diffuse emission from cosmic ray interactions in the interstellar medium, emission from extended sources, such as supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Neronov , D. Malyshev , M. Chernyakova , A. Lutovinov

Measurements of the nearby pulsars Geminga and B0656+14 by the HAWC and Milagro telescopes have revealed the presence of bright TeV-emitting halos surrounding these objects. If young and middle-aged pulsars near the Galactic Center transfer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-12 Dan Hooper , Ilias Cholis , Tim Linden

High-energy neutrino and $\gamma$-ray emission has been observed from the Galactic plane, which may come from individual sources and/or diffuse cosmic rays. We evaluate the contribution of these two components through the multimessenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-30 Ke Fang , Kohta Murase

Molecular clouds are expected to emit non-thermal radiation due to cosmic ray interactions in the dense magnetized gas. Such emission is amplified if a cloud is located close to an accelerator of cosmic rays and if energetic particles can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Stefano Gabici , Felix A. Aharonian , Sabrina Casanova

A new calculation of the Galactic diffuse gamma-ray spectrum from the decay of secondary particles produced by interactions of cosmic-ray protons with interstellar matter is presented. The calculation utilizes the modern Monte Carlo event…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Masaki Mori

A scenario in which cosmic rays (CRs) above $10^{20}{\rm eV}$ are produced by cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is consistent with observations provided that deflections by the inter-galactic magnetic field (IGMF) delay and spread the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Eli Waxman , Paolo Coppi

High energy gamma-ray astronomy has recently made significant progresss through ground-based instruments like the {\it H.E.S.S.} array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The unprecedented angular resolution and the large field of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Heinrich J. Voelk

Very recently, the Tibet-AS$\gamma$ collaboration reported the detection of $\gamma$ rays from the galactic disk in the energy range of 100 TeV -- 1 PeV. Remarkably, many of these $\gamma$ rays were observed apart from known very high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-08 Timur Dzhatdoev

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

The Galactic diffuse emission (GDE) is formed when cosmic rays leave the sources where they were accelerated, diffusively propagate in the Galactic magnetic field, and interact with the interstellar medium and interstellar radiation field.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Ke Fang , John S. Gallagher , Francis Halzen

Reliable identification of the origin of the high-energy non-thermal emission from the Galactic Center (GC) is not achievable without adequate consideration of the ambient conditions such as the magnetic field configuration or gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-19 Mehmet Guenduez , Julia Becker Tjus , Katia Ferrière , Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar , Dominik J. Bomans

The "GeV-excess" of the diffuse gamma-rays in the halo is studied with a template fit based on energy spectra for each possible process of gamma-ray emission. Such a fit allows to determine the background and signal simultaneously, so the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-28 Wim de Boer , Iris Gebauer , Alexander Neumann , Peter L. Biermann

Galactic diffuse gamma-ray flux measured by the Tibet AS$\gamma$ experiment and the total Galactic gamma-ray flux measured by Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) are found to be consistent, within the statistical and…