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This paper analyzes astrophysical scenarios that may be detected at the upper end of the energy range of the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), as a result of cosmic-ray (CR) diffusion in the interstellar medium (ISM). Hadronic…

Context: Young massive star clusters (YMCs) have come increasingly into the focus of discussions on the origin of galactic cosmic rays (CRs). The proposition of CR acceleration inside superbubbles (SBs) blown by the strong winds of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 Lucia K. Härer , Brian Reville , Jim Hinton , Lars Mohrmann , Thibault Vieu

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected thousands of sources since its launch in 2008, with many remaining unidentified. Some of these point sources may arise from source confusion. Specifically, there could be extended sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-07 Giovanni Cozzolongo , Alison M. W. Mitchell , Samuel T. Spencer , Dmitry Malyshev , Tim Unbehaun

Massive stars form in dense and massive molecular cores. The exact formation mechanism is unclear, but it is possible that some massive stars are formed by processes similar to those that produce the low-mass stars, with accretion/ejection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. T. Araudo , G. E. Romero , V. Bosch-Ramon , J. M. Paredes

We study the gamma-ray spectra of 30 globular clusters (GCs) thus far detected with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Presuming that gamma-ray emission of a GC comes from millisecond pulsars (MSPs) contained in, a model that generates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Wei Wu , Zhongxiang Wang , Yi Xing , Pengfei Zhang

We present a novel interpretation of the $\gamma$-ray diffuse emission measured by Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. in the Galactic center (GC) region and the Galactic ridge (GR). In the first part we perform a data-driven analysis based on PASS8…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 D. Gaggero , D. Grasso , A. Marinelli , M. Taoso , A. Urbano

According to radiative models, radio galaxies are predicted to produce gamma rays from the earliest stages of their evolution onwards.The study of the high-energy emission from young radio sources is crucial for providing information on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-23 Giacomo Principe , Leonardo Di Venere , Giulia Migliori , Monica Orienti , Filippo D'Ammando

A recent study of the diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission in the Central Molecular Zone using very high energy (VHE, E $>$ 0.1 TeV) H.E.S.S. data suggests that the Galactic Center (GC) is the most plausible supplier of Galactic ultra-relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 E. O. Angüner , S. Casanova , I. Oya , F. Aharonian , P. Bordas , A. Ziegler

Interstellar clouds can act as target material for hadronic cosmic rays; gamma-rays produced through inelastic proton-proton collisions and spatially associated with the clouds provide a key indicator of efficient particle acceleration.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-05 Alison Mitchell , Gavin Rowell , Silvia Celli , Sabrina Einecke

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

The solar disk is a bright gamma-ray source. Surprisingly, its flux is about one order of magnitude higher than predicted. As a first step toward understanding the physical origin of this discrepancy, we perform a new analysis in 1-100 GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-13 Kenny C. Y. Ng , John F. Beacom , Annika H. G. Peter , Carsten Rott

We report a detection of GeV $\gamma$-ray emission potentially originating from the pulsar wind nebula in CTA 1 by analyzing about 15 yr of Fermi Large Area Telescope data. By selecting an energy range from 50 GeV to 1 TeV to remove…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Liancheng Zhou , Keyao Wu , Yunlu Gong , Jun Fang

The diffuse gamma-ray emission between 10 and 1000 TeV from the Galactic plane was recently measured by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO). These observations will help tremendously in constraining the propagation and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-06 Rui Zhang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Zhi-Hui Xu , Shiping Zhao , Qiang Yuan

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

Stellar flares have been extensively studied in soft X-rays (SXR) by basically every X-ray mission. Hard X-ray (HXR) emission from stellar superflares, however, have only been detected from a handful of objects over the past years. One very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Stefan Ohm , Clemens Hoischen

Supernova remnants (SNRs), star formation regions (SFRs), and pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are prime candidates for Galactic PeVatrons. The nonthermal high-energy (HE, $\varepsilon>100 \textrm{ MeV}$) and very high-energy (VHE,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 B. Hnatyk , R. Hnatyk , V. Zhdanov , V. Voitsekhovskyi

Cosmic rays are energetic nuclei that permeate the entire Galactic disk. Their existence requires the presence of powerful particle accelerators. While Galactic supernova explosions may supply the required energy, there is growing evidence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-11 Giada Peron , Sabrina Casanova , Stefano Gabici , Vardan Baghmanyan , Felix Aharonian

While Supernova Remnants (SNRs) are widely considered the primary accelerators of cosmic rays (CRs) up to hundreds of TeV, they struggle to account for the CR flux at PeV energies, suggesting the existence of additional PeVatrons.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Alberto Bonollo , Paolo Esposito , Andrea Giulisni , Silvia Crestan , Giorgio Galanti , Sandro Mereghetti , Michela Rigoselli

We present the results of our investigation, using a Chandra X-ray observation, into the stellar population of the massive star formation region G5.89-0.39, and its potential connection to the coincident TeV gamma-ray source HESSJ1800-240B.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-28 E. J. Hampton , G. Rowell , W. Hofmann , D. Horns , Y. Uchiyama , S. Wagner

The Galactic gamma-ray diffuse emission is currently observed in the GeV-TeV energy range with unprecedented accuracy by the Fermi satellite. Understanding this component is crucial as it provides a background to many different signals such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 Timur Delahaye , Armand Fiasson , Martin Pohl , Pierre Salati