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Very recently, diffuse gamma rays with $0.1\,{\rm PeV}<E_\gamma <1\,\rm PeV$ have been discovered from the Galactic disk by the Tibet air shower array and muon detector array (Tibet AS+MD array). While the measured sub-PeV flux may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-23 Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

The production of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos is tightly linked to the emission of hadronic gamma-rays. I will discuss the recent observation of TeV to PeV neutrinos by the IceCube Cherenkov telescope in the context of gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-03 Markus Ahlers

With the arrival of km**3 volume scale neutrino detectors the chances to detect the first astronomical sources of TeV neutrinos will be dramatically increased. While the theoretical estimates of the neutrino fluxes contain large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-28 Francesco Vissani , Felix Aharonian , Narek Sahakyan

The IceCube neutrino observatory, a cubic-kilometer particle detector at the South Pole, first announced the discovery of an astrophysical flux of high-energy neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range in 2013, followed in 2017 by the detection of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Marcos Santander

Gamma-ray observations have recently shifted the focus to higher and higher energies, with capable ground-based instruments enabling measurements in the TeV to PeV domain. While a clear prevalence of diffuse emission is observed in the GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-22 Kathrin Egberts , Constantin Steppa , Karol Pawel Peters

The diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos has been measured by the IceCube Observatory from TeV to PeV energies. We show that an improved characterization of this flux at the lower energies, TeV and sub-TeV, reveals important information on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Ke Fang , John S. Gallagher , Francis Halzen

The Galactic center has some of the highest stellar densities in the Galaxy and a range of interstellar scattering properties that may aid in the detection of new radio-selected transient events. Here we describe a search for radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 Anirudh Chiti , Shami Chatterjee , Robert Wharton , James Cordes , T. Joseph W. Lazio , David L. Kaplan , Geoffrey C. Bower , Steve Croft

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is the next-generation observatory for high energy \gamma-ray astronomy with unprecedented sensitivity and accuracy. Accurate estimation and mitigation of systematic uncertainties are crucial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 G. Voutsinas , M. Dalchenko , M. Gaug , O. Gueta , T. Montaruli , R. Zanin

The new generation of powerful instruments is reaching sensitivities and temporal resolutions that will allow multi-messenger astronomy of explosive transient phenomena, with high-energy neutrinos as a central figure. We derive general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-12 Claire Guépin , Kumiko Kotera

New generational very-high-energy telescope arrays have been detecting more than 120 TeV {\gamma}-ray sources. Multi-wavelength observations on these Gamma-ray sources have proven to be robust in shedding light on their nature. The coming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-04 Wenwu Tian , Jianli Zhang

Modern imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes have extensively observed young nearby supernova remnants (SNRs), with ages of about 1000 years or less, in the very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray band. These efforts resulted in the detection…

The discovery of non-thermal X-ray emission from the jets of some X-ray binaries, and especially the discovery of GeV-TeV gamma-rays in some of them, provide a clear evidence of very efficient acceleration of particles to multi-TeV energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-26 J. M. Paredes , V. Zabalza

Neutrinos with energies in the PeV to EeV range produce upgoing extensive air showers when they interact underground close enough to the surface of the Earth. We study the possibility for detection of such showers with a system of very wide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz , L. A. Anchordoqui , J. Adams , A. V. Olinto

Transient sources such as supernovae (SNe) and tidal disruption events are candidates of high energy neutrino sources. However, SNe commonly occur in the universe and a chance coincidence of their detection with a neutrino signal cannot be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Shigeru Yoshida , Kohta Murase , Masaomi Tanaka , Nobuhiro Shimizu , Aya Ishihara

We review recently developed models of galactic discrete sources of high energy neutrinos. Some of them are based on a simple rescaling of the TeV $\gamma$-ray fluxes from recently detected galactic sources, such as, shell-type supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Bednarek , G. F. Burgio , T. Montaruli

Magnetic fields of the order of $\mu$-Gauss are observationally detected in galaxies and galaxy clusters, which can be (at least) in part originated by the amplification of much weaker primordial seed fields. These fields should be carried…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-27 Paramita Barai , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

The field of TeV gamma-ray astronomy is reviewed with emphasis on its relation to the origin of cosmic rays. The discovery of TeV photons from supernova remnants and active galaxies has provided the first direct observational link between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Krennrich

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will have a unique chance of discovery for a large range of masses in Weakly Interacting Massive Particles models of dark matter. The principal target for dark matter searches with CTA is the centre of…

We report on the results of a four-year long X-ray monitoring campaign of the central 1.2 square degrees of our Galaxy, performed with Chandra and XMM-Newton between 2005 and 2008. Our study focuses on the properties of transient X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 N. Degenaar , R. Wijnands , E. M. Cackett , J. Homan , J. J. M. in 't Zand , E. Kuulkers , T. J. Maccarone , M. van der Klis

The recent discovery of electromagnetic signals in coincidence with neutron-star mergers has solidified the importance of multimessenger campaigns in studying the most energetic astrophysical events. Pioneering multimessenger observatories,…