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In a Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN), the lifetime of inverse Compton emitting electrons exceeds the lifetime of its progenitor pulsar, but it exceeds also the age of the electrons that emit via synchrotron radiation; i.e. during the evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-08 O. Tibolla , K. Mannheim , D. Elsässer , S. Kaufmann

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has detected an extended region of GeV emission toward the Galactic Center that is currently thought to be powered by dark matter annihilation or a population of young and/or millisecond pulsars. In a test of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 D. Bhakta , J. Deneva , D. A. Frail , F. de Gasperin , H. T. Intema , P. Jagannathan , K. P. Mooley

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) has revealed many TeV (10 12 eV) gamma-ray sources along the Galactic Plane and around 30 percent of these sources remain unidentified. The morphology and dynamics of dense gas coincident and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-12 P. de Wilt , G. Rowell , A. J. Walsh , M. Burton , J. Rathborne , Y. Fukui , A. Kawamura , F. Aharonian

It is expected that specific globular clusters can contain up to a hundred of millisecond pulsars. These pulsars can accelerate leptons at the shock waves originated in collisions of the pulsar winds and/or inside the pulsar magnetospheres.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 W. Bednarek , J. Sitarek

We present multiwavelength studies of a TeV gamma-ray source VER J2016+371 suggested to be associated with a supernova remnant CTB 87 (G74.9+1.2) and based on X-ray and radio morphologies, CTB 87 is identified as an evolved pulsar wind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-08 Lab Saha

Several high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects such as Mrk 501 are strong TeV emitters. However, a significant fraction of the TeV gamma rays emitted are likely to be absorbed in interactions with the diffuse IR background, yielding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Dai , B. Zhang , L. J. Gou , P. Meszaros , E. Waxman

Two energetic millisecond pulsars (MSPs) within globular clusters (GC), J1823-3021A in NGC 6624 and PSR B1821-24 in M28, have been recently discovered to emit pulsed GeV gamma-rays. These MSPs are expected to eject energetic leptons.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-24 W. Bednarek , J. Sitarek , T. Sobczak

An increasing number of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are being identified in the TeV band by ground-based Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes such that they constitute the dominant source class of Galactic TeV emitters. However, MeV-GeV PWN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Jordan Eagle , Daniel Castro , Wei Zhang , Diego Torres , Jean Ballet , The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

We conduct a search for periodic emission in the very high-energy gamma-ray band (VHE; E > 100 GeV) from a total of 13 pulsars in an archival VERITAS data set with a total exposure of over 450 hours. The set of pulsars includes many of the…

The recently identified source class of pulsar haloes may be numerous and bright enough in the TeV range to constitute a large fraction of the sources that will be observed with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). In this work, we quantify…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Christopher Eckner , Veronika Vodeb , Pierrick Martin , Gabrijela Zaharijas , Francesca Calore

Extended gamma-ray sources surrounding middle-aged pulsars, primarily observed at teraelectronvolt energies, have been interpreted as pulsar halos, where relativistic $e^\pm$ diffuse into the interstellar medium and produce inverse-Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Agnibha De Sarkar

Detailed observation by the High-Altitude Water Cerenkov Observatory of the regions within about 20 pc of the nearby Geminga and PSR B0656+14 pulsars have suggested the need for the diffusion coefficient of 10-100 TeV leptons yielding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-20 J J Quenby

The development of techniques whereby gamma rays of energy 100 GeV and above can be studied from the ground, using indirect, but sensitive, techniques has opened up a new area of high energy photon astronomy. The most exciting result that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Horan , T. C. Weekes

We present a Chandra X-ray observation of G12.82-0.02, a shell-like radio supernova remnant coincident with the TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1813-178. We resolve the X-ray emission from the co-located ASCA source into a compact object…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. V. Gotthelf , D. J. Helfand

We show that images of TeV blazars in the GeV energy band should contain, along with point-like sources, degree-scale jet-like extensions. These GeV extensions are the result of electromagnetic cascades initiated by TeV gamma-rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Neronov , D. Semikoz , M. Kachelriess , S. Ostapchenko , A. Elyiv

The possibility of slow diffusion regions as the origin for extended TeV emission halos around some pulsars (such as PSR J0633+1746 and PSR B0656+14) challenges the standard scaling of the electron diffusion coefficient in the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-14 Illya Plotnikov , Allard Jan van Marle , Claire Guépin , Alexandre Marcowith , Pierrick Martin

Large-scale extragalactic jets, observed to extend from a few to a few hundred kiloparsecs from active galactic nuclei, are now studied over many decades in frequency of electromagnetic spectrum, from radio until (possibly) TeV gamma rays.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 L. Stawarz

Geminga pulsar is surrounded by a multi-TeV $\gamma$-ray halo radiated by the high energy electrons and positrons accelerated by the central pulsar wind nebula (PWN). The angular profile of the $\gamma$-ray emission reported by HAWC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Kun Fang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

Globular clusters are old stellar systems which exhibit very-high stellar densities in their cores. The globular cluster Terzan 5 is characterized by a high stellar encounter rate and hosts the largest detected population of millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 W. Domainko , A. -C. Clapson , F. Brun , P. Eger , M. Jamrozy , M. Dyrda , N. Komin , U. Schwanke

Galactic diffuse gamma-ray flux measured by the Tibet AS$\gamma$ experiment and the total Galactic gamma-ray flux measured by Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) are found to be consistent, within the statistical and…