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It is widely accepted that cosmic rays (CRs) up to at least PeV energies are Galactic in origin. Accelerated particles are injected into the interstellar medium where they propagate to the farthest reaches of the Milky Way, including a…

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are considered as the most promising source class to account for the bulk of the Galactic cosmic-ray flux. Yet amongst the population of ultra-high energy (UHE) sources that has recently emerged, due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-18 A. M. W. Mitchell , S. Celli

(Abridged) The inner couple hundred pcs of our Galaxy is characterized by significant amount of synchrotron-emitting gas, which appears to co-exist with a large reservoir of molecular gas. The spatial correlation between fluorescent Fe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Muno , M. Wardle , D. C. Lis

Low-frequency radio observations of diffuse synchrotron radiation offer a unique vantage point for investigating the intricate relationship between gas and magnetic fields in the formation of structures within the Galaxy, spanning from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-29 Andrea Bracco , Marco Padovani , Daniele Galli

The antiparticle energy spectra of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) have several exciting features such as the unexpected positron excess at $E\sim$10-200\,GeV and the remarkably hard antiproton flux at $E\sim$\,60--450\,GeV recently measured by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-31 Jie Feng , Nicola Tomassetti , Alberto Oliva

We present the first simulations evolving resolved spectra of cosmic rays (CRs) from MeV-TeV energies (including electrons, positrons, (anti)protons, and heavier nuclei), in live kinetic-MHD galaxy simulations with star formation and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-29 Philip F. Hopkins , Iryna S. Butsky , Georgia V. Panopoulou , Suoqing Ji , Eliot Quataert , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere , Dusan Keres

TeV-range cosmic ray electrons and positrons (CREs) have been directly measured in the search for new physics or unknown astrophysical sources. CREs can inverse-Compton scatter solar photons and boost their energies into gamma ray bands.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-26 Hong-Gang Yang , Yu Gao , Yin-Zhe Ma , Roland M. Crocker

In this work we study the individual contribution to diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission from the secondary products in hadronic interactions generated by cosmic rays (CRs), in addition to the contribution of $\pi^0$ decay via the decay mode…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 C. -Y. Huang , S. -E. Park , M. Pohl , C. D. Daniels

To answer the fundamental questions concerning the origin and nature of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), it is important to confront data with simulated astrophysical scenarios. These scenarios should include detailed information on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 R. Alves Batista , M. Erdmann , C. Evoli , K. -H. Kampert , D. Kuempel , G. Müller , G. Sigl , A. van Vliet , D. Walz , T. Winchen

Recent observations reveal that spectral breaks at ~GeV are commonly present in Galactic gamma-ray supernova remnants (SNRs) interacting with molecular clouds and that most of them have a spectral ($E^2dF/dE$) "platform" extended from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Hui Li , Yang Chen

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are likely to be significant sources of cosmic rays up to the knee of the local cosmic-ray (CR) spectrum. They produce gamma-rays in the very-high-energy (VHE) ($E>0.1$ TeV) range via: hadronic interactions with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Rowan Batzofin , Pierre Cristofari , Kathrin Egberts , Constantin Steppa , Dominique Meyer

The diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Milky Way serves as a crucial probe for understanding the propagation and interactions of cosmic rays within our galaxy. The Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 10 TeV and 1 PeV has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-07 Jiayin He , Houdun Zeng , Yi Zhang , Qiang Yuan , Rui Zhang , Jun Li

The regulation of the baryonic content in dwarf galaxies is a long-standing problem. Supernovae (SNe) are supposed to play a key role in forming large-scale galactic winds by removing important amounts of gas from galaxies. SNe are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 Gohar Dashyan , Yohan Dubois

Recently, the Large High-Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) collaboration has obtained a measurement of the gamma-ray diffuse emission in the ultra-high energy range, $10-10^3$ TeV after masking the contribution of known sources. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Vittoria Vecchiotti , Giada Peron , Elena Amato , Stefano Menchiari , Giovanni Morlino , Giulia Pagliaroli , Francesco L. Villante

Diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission produced by the interaction of cosmic-ray particles with matter and radiation in the Galaxy can be used to probe the distribution of cosmic rays and their sources in different regions of the Galaxy. With its…

In an earlier paper, the effect of the nearby known supernova remnants (SNRs) on the local cosmic-rays (CRs) was studied, considering different possible forms of the particle injection time. The present work is a continuation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Satyendra Thoudam

We study the effects of escaping cosmic rays (CRs) on the interstellar medium (ISM) around their source with spherically symmetric CR-hydrodynamical simulations taking into account the evolution of the CR energy spectrum, radiative cooling,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Jiro Shimoda , Katsuaki Asano , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are the prime candidates for the acceleration of the Galactic Cosmic Rays. Tracers for interactions of Cosmic Rays with ambient material are gamma rays at TeV energies, which can be observed with ground based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Nukri Komin

Cosmic rays (CRs) and magnetic fields may be dynamically important in driving large-scale galactic outflows from rapidly star-forming galaxies. We construct two-dimensional axisymmetric models of the local starburst and super-wind galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 Benjamin J. Buckman , Tim Linden , Todd A. Thompson

We derive observational consequences of the hypothesis that cosmic rays (CR's) of energy $>10^{19}eV$ originate in the same cosmological objects producing gamma-ray bursts (GRB's). Inter-galactic magnetic fields $\gtrsim 10^{-12} G$ are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jordi Miralda-Escude , Eli Waxman
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