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Eulerian simulations of the Vlasov-Poisson equations have been employed to analyze the excitation of slow electrostatic fluctuations (with phase speed close to the electron thermal speed), due to a beam-plasma interaction, and their…

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Structure formation in the intergalactic medium (IGM) produces large-scale, collisionless shock waves, where electrons can accelerate to highly relativistic energies. Such electrons can Compton scatter cosmic microwave background photons up…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Uri Keshet , Eli Waxman , Abraham Loeb , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

We investigate the delayed, secondary GeV-TeV emission of gamma-ray bursts and its potential to probe the nature of intergalactic magnetic fields. Geometrical effects are properly taken into account for the time delay between primary high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kiyotomo Ichiki , Susumu Inoue , Keitaro Takahashi

The LHAASO Collaboration has recently reported a measurement of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Plane at energies between 10 TeV and 1 PeV. While this emission is brighter than that expected from cosmic-ray interactions in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-18 Ariane Dekker , Ian Holst , Dan Hooper , Giovani Leone , Emily Simon , Huangyu Xiao

We derive lower bounds on intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMFs) from upper limits on the pair echo emission from the blazar Mrk 501, that is, delayed GeV emission from secondary $e^{-}e^{+}$ pairs produced via interactions of primary TeV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Keitaro Takahashi , Masaki Mori , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Susumu Inoue

Gamma-ray binaries are orbital modulated gamma-ray sources in the Galaxy detected both at GeV and TeV energies. The high-energy radiation may come from the interaction of energetic electrons injected by a young pulsar and photons from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-21 B. Cerutti , G. Dubus , G. Henri

The dominant mechanisms underlying high-energy $\gamma$-ray emission from galaxies vary by galaxy type. In starbursts, a major contribution comes from neutral pion decay. This is driven by interactions between interstellar gas and hadronic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Ellis R. Owen , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Chung-Yue Hui , Tatsuki Fujiwara , Albert K. H. Kong

Modern and future particle accelerators employ increasingly higher intensity and brighter beams of charged particles and become operationally limited by coherent beam instabilities. Usual methods to control the instabilities, such as…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Vladimir Shiltsev , Yuri Alexahin , Alexey Burov , Alexander Valishev

Observations of two well known binary systems (LS 5039 and LS I +61 303) with the satellite and Cherenkov telescopes revealed the broad band $\gamma$-ray spectra which seems to show two components, the first at GeV energies, showing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 W. Bednarek

The high-energy diffuse gamma-ray emission and neutrino emission are expected from the Galactic plane, generated by hadronuclear interactions between cosmic rays (CR) and interstellar medium (ISM). Therefore, measurements of these diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-19 Kai Yan , Ruo-Yu Liu , Rui Zhang , Chao-Ming Li , Qiang Yuan , Xiang-Yu Wang

The double humped SED (Spectral Energy Distribution) of blazars, and their flaring phenomena can be explained by various leptonic and hadronic models. However, accurate modeling of the high frequency component and clear identification of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 B. Behera , S. J. Wagner

High energy photons from blazars can initiate electromagnetic pair cascades interacting with the extragalactic photon background. The charged component of such cascades is deflected and delayed by extragalactic magnetic fields (EGMF),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-23 K. Dolag , M. Kachelriess , S. Ostapchenko , R. Tomas

Lower bounds are derived on the amplitude B of intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMFs) in the region between Galaxy and the blazar Mrk 421, from constraints on the delayed GeV pair-echo flux that are emitted by secondary e^-e^+ produced in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Keitaro Takahashi , Masaki Mori , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Susumu Inoue , Hajime Takami

Attenuation of the TeV gamma-ray flux from distant blazars through pair production with extragalactic background light leads to the development of electromagnetic cascades and subsequent, lower energy, GeV secondary gamma-ray emission. Due…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 A. M. Taylor , I. Vovk , A. Neronov

A hard TeV $\gamma$-ray component excess over the single-zone leptonic model prediction (TeV excess) is observed in the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of some BL Lacs. Its origin is uncertain. We revisit this issue with four BL Lacs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Ji-Gui Cheng , Xiao-Li Huang , Ze-Rui Wang , Jian-Kun Huang , En-Wei Liang

Relativistic electron beam propagation in plasma is fraught with several micro instabilities like two stream, filamentation etc., in plasma. This results in severe limitation of the electron transport through a plasma medium. Recently,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Chandrashekhar Shukla , Amita Das , Kartik Patel

It has been realised only recently that TeV emission from blazars can significantly heat the intergalactic medium (IGM) by pair-producing high-energy electrons and positrons, which in turn excite vigorous plasma instabilities, leading to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ewald Puchwein , Christoph Pfrommer , Volker Springel , Avery E. Broderick , Philip Chang

TeV gamma-ray emission from two massive binaries of the microquasar type, LS 5039 and LS I +61$^{\rm o}$ 303, show clear variability with their orbital periods. Our purpose is to calculate the GeV and TeV $\gamma$-ray light curves from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 W. Bednarek

Extreme TeV blazars (ETBs) are active galactic nuclei with jets presumably pointing towards the observer having their intrinsic spectral energy distributions (SEDs) peaked at an energy in excess of 1 TeV. These sources typically reveal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-21 Timur Dzhatdoev , Vladimir Galkin , Egor Podlesnyi

The variable flux of TeV gamma-rays detected from Mkn 421 and Mkn 501 requires the presence of high energy electrons, which could in principle produce large numbers of electron/positron pairs, leading to an electromagnetic cascade. We point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 W. Bednarek , J. G. Kirk , A. Mastichiadis