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The radio galaxy M87 has recently been found to be a rapidly variable TeV emitting source. We analyze the implications of the observed TeV characteristics and show that it proves challenging to account for them within conventional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 F. M. Rieger , F. A. Aharonian

Microquasars with high-mass companion stars are promising very-high-energy (VHE; 0.1-100 TeV) gamma-ray emitters, but their behaviors above 10 TeV are poorly known. Using the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, we search for…

Understanding the high-energy emission processes and variability patterns are two of the most challenging research problems associated with relativistic jets. In particular, the long-term (months-to-years) flux variability at very high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-23 Vaidehi S. Paliya

A population of Galactic gamma-ray binaries is currently emerging due to ever increasing sensitivity of gamma-ray observatories. The detection of very high energy (VHE) photons with energies well above 10 TeV from a dozen of sources and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-10 A. M. Bykov , A. G. Kuranov , A. E. Petrov , K. A. Postnov

We have obtained evidence of gamma-ray emission above 1 TeV from PSR1706-44, using a ground-based telescope of the atmospheric \v{C}erenkov imaging type located near Woomera, South Australia. This object, a $\gamma$-ray source discovered by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-04 T. Kifune , CANGAROO Collaboration

A large fraction of Galactic very-high energy (VHE; E$\gtrsim$100 GeV) $\gamma$-ray sources is cataloged as unidentified. In this work we explore the possibility that these unidentified sources are located in ambients particularly rich in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-10 Giovanna Pedaletti , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Diego F. Torres , Giovanni Natale

The TeV emission of low power BL Lac objects has been established by the detection of an handful of them. The knowledge of the level of the TeV emission and its spectrum can shed light on the particle acceleration mechanisms, and it is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Costamante , G. Ghisellini

The data for VHE (~TeV) gamma rays from young gamma-ray pulsar PSR1509-58 observed in 1996 with the CANGAROO 3.8m Cerenkov imaging telescope are presented, as well as the additional data from March to June of 1997. The high spin-down…

Around 160 gamma-ray pulsars were discovered by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) since 2008. The most energetic of them, 12 objects with emission above 25 GeV, are suitable candidates for the detection with the current and future…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 A. Burtovoi , T. Y. Saito , L. Zampieri , T. Hassan

Recently, the region surrounding eHWC J1842-035 has been studied extensively by gamma-ray observatories due to its extended emission reaching up to a few hundred TeV and potential as a hadronic accelerator. In this work, we use 1,910 days…

Approximately one hundred sources of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays are known in the Milky Way. A survey of the entire Galactic Plane in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to a few hundred TeV has been proposed as a Key Science…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-28 CTA Consortium

We make a time-dependent characterization of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) surrounding some of the highest spin-down pulsars that have not yet been detected at TeV. Our aim is assessing their possible level of magnetization. We analyze the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Martin , D. F. Torres , A. Cillis , E. de Oña Wilhelmi

The HAWC Collaboration has observed gamma rays at energies above 56 TeV from a collection of nine sources. It has been suggested that this emission could be hadronic in nature, requiring that these systems accelerate cosmic-ray protons or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-01 Takahiro Sudoh , Tim Linden , Dan Hooper

The recent discovery of a new population of ultra-high-energy gamma-ray sources with spectra extending beyond 100 TeV revealed the presence of Galactic PeVatrons - cosmic-ray factories accelerating particles to PeV energies. These sources,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Rubén López-Coto , Elena Amato , Felix Aharonian

The extended ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray source HAWC J1844-034 is closely associated with two other sources, HAWC J1843-032 and HWC J1846-025. Moreover, other gamma-ray observatories like H.E.S.S., LHAASO, and Tibet AS$_{\gamma}$ have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-01 Sovan Boxi , Saptarshi Ghosh , Nayantara Gupta

HESS J1745-303 is an extended, unidentified VHE (very high energy) gamma-ray source discovered using HESS in the Galactic Plane Survey. Since no obvious counterpart has previously been found in longer-wavelength data, the processes that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-15 HESS Collaboration , F. Aharonian

The number of plausible associations of extended VHE (TeV) sources with pulsars has been steadily growing, suggesting that many of these sources are pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). Here we overview the recent progress in X-ray and TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-09 Oleg Kargaltsev , George G. Pavlov , Martin Durant

The connection between the arrival directions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays by using the EAS array data and point galactic sources of radio-and gamma-radiations, pulsars,is sought. At the mean particle energy of 10^{19} eV the correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Mikhailov

The Sun is a bright source of GeV gamma rays, due to cosmic rays interacting with solar matter and photons. Key aspects of the underlying processes remain mysterious. The emission in the TeV range, for which there are neither observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Bei Zhou , Kenny C. Y. Ng , John F. Beacom , Annika H. G. Peter

Recent data from the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope have revealed about a dozen distant hard-spectrum blazars that have very-high-energy (VHE; $\gtrsim 100$ GeV) photons associated with them, but most of them have not yet been detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-28 Hajime Takami , Kohta Murase , Charles D. Dermer