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Several high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects such as Mrk 501 are strong TeV emitters. However, a significant fraction of the TeV gamma rays emitted are likely to be absorbed in interactions with the diffuse IR background, yielding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Dai , B. Zhang , L. J. Gou , P. Meszaros , E. Waxman

In recent years, the number of known sources emitting very- and ultra-high-energy gamma-rays has increased significantly thanks to facilities such as LHAASO and HAWC. Many of the observed sources are still unidentified or poorly constrained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Michela Rigoselli , Sarah Recchia , Alberto Bonollo , Silvia Crestan , Giada Peron , Andrea Giuliani , Sandro Mereghetti

There are currently over 160 known gamma-ray pulsars. While most of them are detected only from space, at least two are now seen also from the ground. MAGIC and VERITAS have measured the gamma ray pulsed emission of the Crab pulsar up to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 C. Alvarez Ochoa , P. M. Saz Parkinson , A. Belfiore , A. Carramiñana , C. Rivière , E. Moreno Barbosa

We investigate the $\gamma$-ray emission from a outer-gap accelerator, which is located in the outer-magnetosphere of a pulsar. The charge depletion from the Goldreich-Julian density causes a large electric field along the magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Takata , S. Shibata , K. Hirtotani

Pulsar halos (also termed 'TeV halo') are a new class of $\gamma$-ray sources in Galaxy, which manifest as extended $\gamma$-ray emission around middle-age pulsars, as discovered around the Geminga pulsar, the Monogem pulsar and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-01 Qi-Zuo Wu , Chao-Ming Li , Xuan-Han Liang , Chong Ge , Ruo-Yu Liu

We investigate, in terms of production from pulsars and their nebulae, the cosmic ray positron and electron fluxes above $\sim10$ GeV, observed by the AMS-02 experiment up to 1 TeV. We concentrate on the Vela-X case. Starting from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-10 S. Della Torre , M. Gervasi , P. G. Rancoita , D. Rozza , A. Treves

Pulsars emit pulsed emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and their light curve phenomenology is strongly dependent on energy. This is also true for the gamma-ray waveband. Continued detections by Fermi Large Area Telescope in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-29 Monica Barnard , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

We discuss the relevance of the curvature radiation of pions in strongly magnetized pulsars or magnetars, and their implications for the production of TeV energy neutrinos detectable by cubic kilometer scale detectors, as well as high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-13 T. Herpay , S. Razzaque , A. Patkos , P. Meszaros

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

We study the gamma-ray emissions from an outer-magnetospheric potential gap around a rotating neutron star. Migratory electrons and positrons are accelerated by the electric field in the gap to radiate copious gamma-rays via curvature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Hirotani

The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory revealed the high energy emission of some Active Galactic Nuclei called "Blazars"; few of them have also been observed by ground Cererenkov arrays. Those sources observed with Whipple Observatory emit gamma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pelletier , G. Henri

Recent observations show that hypernovae may deposit some fraction of their kinetic energy in mildly relativistic ejecta. In the dissipation process of such ejecta in a stellar wind, cosmic ray protons can be accelerated up to $\sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Asano , P. Mészáros

Pictor A is a nearby Fanaroff-Riley class II (FR II) radio galaxy with a bright hot spot, the western hot spot. Observation of high polarization in the optical emission of the hot spot indicates that the optical emission could be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-10 Jin Zhang , J. M. Bai , Liang Chen , Xian Yang

It is expected that specific globular clusters can contain up to a hundred of millisecond pulsars. These pulsars can accelerate leptons at the shock waves originated in collisions of the pulsar winds and/or inside the pulsar magnetospheres.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 W. Bednarek , J. Sitarek

TeV haloes are a recently discovered class of very high energy gamma-ray emitters. These sources consist of extended regions of multi-TeV emission, originally observed around the two well-known and nearby pulsars, Geminga and PSR B0656+14…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-04 Elena Amato , Sarah Recchia

Milagro and HAWC have detected extended TeV gamma-ray emission around nearby pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). Building on these discoveries, Linden et al. [1] identified a new source class -- TeV halos -- powered by the interactions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 Takahiro Sudoh , Tim Linden , John F. Beacom

A number of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars are powerful sources of X-ray emission. We present predictions for the spectral characteristics of these sources at gamma-ray energies, using a model for acceleration and pair cascades on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Alice K. Harding , Vladimir V. Usov , Alex Muslimov

We estimate the TeV gamma-ray fluxes expected from the population of young pulsars in terms of the self-consistent time dependent hadronic-leptonic model for the high energy processes inside the pulsar wind nebulae. This radiation model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Bednarek , M. Bartosik

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes have revealed more than 100 TeV sources along the Galactic Plane, around 45% of them remain unidentified. However, radio observations revealed that dense molecular clumps are associated with 67% of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Kouichi Hirotani , Hung-Yi Pu , Satoki Matsushita

Diffusive TeV gamma-ray emissions have been recently discovered extending beyond the pulsar wind nebulae of a few middle-aged pulsars, implying that energetic electron/positron pairs are escaping from the pulsar wind nebulae and radiating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Ruo-Yu Liu