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Recently, the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) collaboration reported the discovery of the TeV halo around the Geminga pulsar. The TeV emission is believed to originate from inverse Compton scattering of pulsar-injected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-26 Ruo-Yu Liu , Chong Ge , Xiao-Na Sun , Xiang-Yu Wang

Searches for the putative large-scale X-ray halo around the Geminga pulsar have been extensively performed using various narrow field-of-view X-ray telescopes. In this paper, we present wide-field scanning observation of Geminga with…

The detection of extended TeV $\gamma$-ray emission (dubbed "TeV halos") from Geminga and Monogem pulsars by HAWC collaboration implies that the halo-like morphologies around middle-aged pulsars may be common. The $\gamma$-rays above 10 TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Ben Li , Yi Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

Geminga is an enigmatic radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar located at a mere 250 pc distance from Earth. Extended very-high-energy gamma-ray emission around the pulsar was discovered by Milagro and later confirmed by HAWC, which are both water…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , J. Aschersleben , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , V. Barbosa Martins , R. Batzofin , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , K. Bernlöhr , B. Bi , M. Böttcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , J. Borowska , M. Bouyahiaoui , F. Bradascio , R. Brose , F. Brun , B. Bruno , T. Bulik , C. Burger Scheidlin , F. Cangemi , S. Caroff , S. Casanova , J. Celic , M. Cerruti , P. Chambery , T. Chand , S. Chandra , A. Chen , J. Chibueze , O. Chibueze , G. Cotter , J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye , J. Devin , A. Djannati-Ataï , A. Dmytriiev , K. Egberts , S. Einecke , J. P. Ernenwein , K. Feijen , G. Fichet de Clairfontaine , M. Filipovic , G. Fontaine , M. Füssling , S. Funk , S. Gabici , Y. A. Gallant , S. Ghafourizadeh , G. Giavitto , L. Giunti , D. Glawion , J. F. Glicenstein , P. Goswami , G. Grolleron , M. -H. Grondin , L. Haerer , M. Haupt , G. Hermann , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , T. L. Holch , M. Holler , D. Horns , Zhiqiu Huang , M. Jamrozy , F. Jankowsky , V. Joshi , I. Jung-Richardt , E. Kasai , K. Katarzyński , B. Khélifi , W. Kluźniak , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , R. G. Lang , S. Le Stum , F. Leitl , A. Lemière , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , F. Leuschner , T. Lohse , A. Luashvili , I. Lypova , J. Mackey , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , P. Marchegiani , A. Marcowith , P. Marinos , G. Martí-Devesa , R. Marx , G. Maurin , P. J. Meintjes , M. Meyer , A. Mitchell , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , A. Montanari , E. Moulin , J. Muller , K. Nakashima , M. de Naurois , J. Niemiec , A. Priyana Noel , P. O'Brien , S. Ohm , L. Olivera-Nieto , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , M. Ostrowski , S. Panny , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , G. Peron , D. A. Prokhorov , G. Pühlhofer , A. Quirrenbach , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Renaud , B. Reville , F. Rieger , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , H. Rueda Ricarte , E. Ruiz-Velasco , V. Sahakian , H. Salzmann , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , F. Schüssler , H. M. Schutte , U. Schwanke , J. N. S. Shapopi , A. Sinha , H. Sol , A. Specovius , S. Spencer , Ł. Stawarz , S. Steinmassl , I. Sushch , H. Suzuki , T. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , T. Tavernier , A. M. Taylor , R. Terrier , C. Thorpe-Morgan , M. Tsirou , N. Tsuji , M. Vecchi , C. Venter , J. Vink , S. J. Wagner , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , Yu Wun Wong , M. Zacharias , D. Zargaryan , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , S. Zouari , N. Żywucka

Nearby pulsars within $\sim1\,{\rm kpc}$ are considered to be possible sources of 10-500 GeV cosmic-ray positron excess measured by PAMELA and AMS-02. A TeV halo around Geminga is detected by HAWC, and the measurements of its surface…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Yu Meng , Yun-Feng Liang , Ben-Yang Zhu , Xiao-Na Sun , En-Wei Liang

Recently, gamma-ray halos of a few degree extension have been detected around two middle-aged pulsars, namely, Geminga and PSR B0656+14, by the High Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory (HAWC). The gamma-ray radiation arise from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Yi Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu , S. Z. Chen , Xiang-Yu Wang

A novel phenomenon among the recently observed Geminga pulsar halo is the presence of distinct radiation morphology at high energies, while no extended radiation is detected in the 10-500 GeV energy band within a $40\degree\times40\degree$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Lin Nie , Yu-Hai Ge , Yi-Qing Guo , Si-Ming Liu

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

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

The HAWC Collaboration has discovered a $\gamma$-ray emission extended about 2 degrees around the Geminga and Monogem pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) at $\gamma$-ray energies $E_\gamma >5$ TeV. We analyze, for the first time, almost 10 years of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-25 Mattia Di Mauro , Silvia Manconi , Fiorenza Donato

Context. Extended gamma-ray TeV emission (TeV halos) around middle-aged pulsars has been detected. A proposed model to explain these TeV halos is that electrons from a degree-wide Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN) get up-scattered by cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-17 A. Khokhriakova , W. Becker , G. Ponti , M. Sasaki , B. Li , R. -Y. Liu

Geminga is an enigmatic radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar located at a mere 250 pc distance from Earth. Extended very-high-energy gamma-ray emission around the pulsar has been detected by multiple water Cherenkov detector based instruments.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-01 A. M. W. Mitchell , S. Caroff

Geminga is a radio-quiet pulsar ~250 parsecs from Earth that was first discovered as a GeV gamma-ray source and then identified as a pulsar. Milagro observed an extended TeV source spatially consistent with Geminga. HAWC observes a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 B. M. Baughman , J. Wood

Observations by HAWC and Milagro have detected bright and spatially extended TeV gamma-ray sources surrounding the Geminga and Monogem pulsars. We argue that these observations, along with a substantial population of other extended TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Tim Linden , Katie Auchettl , Joseph Bramante , Ilias Cholis , Ke Fang , Dan Hooper , Tanvi Karwal , Shirley Weishi Li

Pulsar halos are a recently identified class of TeV $\gamma$-ray sources, offering valuable insights into the evolution of pulsar systems at the highest energies. However, only a handful of such sources have been detected so far, making…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-06 Tina Wach , Alison M. W. Mitchell

Geminga was first detected as a gamma-ray point source by the SAS-2 gamma-ray satellite observatory and the COS-B X-ray satellite observatory. Subsequent observations have identified Geminga as a heavily obscured radio-quiet pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Andy Flinders

Extended gamma-ray emission around isolated pulsars at TeV energies, also known as TeV halos, have been found around a handful of middle-aged pulsars. The halos are significantly more extended than their pulsar wind nebulae but much smaller…

Geminga is the second brightest persistent source in the GeV gamma-ray sky. Discovered in 1975 by SAS-2 mission, it was identified as a pulsar only in the 90s, when ROSAT detected the 237 ms X-ray periodicity, that was later also found by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-31 M. Razzano , D. Dumora , F. Gargano

Highly extended gamma-ray emission around the Geminga pulsar was discovered by Milagro and verified by HAWC. Despite many observations with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), detection of gamma-ray emission on angular scales…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 A. M. W. Mitchell , S. Caroff , J. Hinton , L. Mohrmann
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