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Observations have shown that spatially extended "TeV halos" are a common (and potentially generic) feature surrounding young and middle-aged pulsars. However, their morphology is not understood. They are larger than the "compact" region…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Payel Mukhopadhyay , Tim Linden

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has detected multiple ultra-high energy (UHE; E$_\gamma \ge$ 100 TeV) gamma-ray sources in the Milky Way Galaxy, which are associated with Galactic ``PeVatrons'' that accelerate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Agnibha De Sarkar , Pratik Majumdar

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) has a wide field-of-view (FOV, $\sim$2sr) and a high duty cycle ($\sim$95\%), which make it a powerful survey and monitoring experiment for sources of TeV gamma rays. We present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-21 Zhixiang Ren , Robert Lauer , John A. J. Matthews , the HAWC Collaboration

The discovery of extended gamma-ray emission toward a number of middle-aged pulsars suggests the possibility of long-lived particle confinement beyond the classical pulsar wind nebula (PWN) stage. How this emerging source class can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Pierrick Martin , Luigi Tibaldo , Alexandre Marcowith , Soheila Abdollahi

It has long been suggested that nearby pulsars within $\sim 1 \,{\rm kpc}$ are the leading candidate of the 10-500 GeV cosmic-ray positron excess measured by PAMELA and other experiments. The recent measurement of surface brightness profile…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Shao-Qiang Xi , Ruo-Yu Liu , Zhi-Qiu Huang , Kun Fang , Xiang-Yu Wang

Many of the recently discovered galactic very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray sources are associated with Pulsar Wind Nebulae, which is the most populous Galactic source category at TeV energies. The extended synchrotron nebulae of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Konopelko

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 particle diffusion coefficients of three TeV pulsar halos observed so far are inferred to be significantly smaller than the typical value of the interstellar medium (ISM). The anisotropic diffusion model ascribes the slow diffusion to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-24 Kai Yan , Ruo-Yu Liu , S. Z. Chen , Xiang-Yu Wang

Recent observations have detected extended TeV gamma-ray emission surrounding young and middle-aged pulsars. The morphology of these "TeV halos" requires cosmic-ray diffusion to be locally suppressed by a factor of ~100-1000 compared to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-27 Carmelo Evoli , Tim Linden , Giovanni Morlino

The injection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in the intergalactic medium leads to the production of a GeV-TeV gamma-ray halo centered on the source location, through the production of a high electromagnetic component in the interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Kumiko Kotera , Denis Allard , Martin Lemoine

Nearby pulsars have been suggested as sources of $\sim$TeV $e^+/e^-$ Cosmic Ray (CR) excess on Earth. The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) detected extended TeV emission regions in the direction of two nearby middle-aged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Xiaping Tang , Tsvi Piran

2HWC J1928+177 is a Galactic TeV gamma-ray source detected by the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory up to ~ 56 TeV. The HAWC source, later confirmed by H.E.S.S., still remains unidentified as a dark accelerator since there is…

The launch of the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope and the imaging air Cerenkov telescopes H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS have substantially transformed our knowledge of gamma-ray sources in the last decade. The extragalactic gamma-ray sky is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-02 C. Pfrommer

We present a short overview of the TeV-Halos objects as a discovery and a relevant contribution of the High Altitude Water \v{C}erenkov (HAWC) observatory to TeV astrophysics. We discuss history, discovery, knowledge, and the next step…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-14 Ramiro Torres-Escobedo , Hao Zhou , Eduardo de la Fuente , A. U. Abeysekara , A. Albert , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , J. D. Álvarez , J. R. Angeles Camacho , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , K. P. Arunbabu , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , R. Babu , V. Baghmanyan , A. S. Barber , J. Becerra Gonzalez , E. Belmont-Moreno , S. Y. BenZvi , D. Berley , C. Brisbois , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , O. Chaparro-Amaro , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , C. de León , L. Diaz-Cruz , R. Diaz Hernandez , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , B. L. Dingus , M. Durocher , M. A. DuVernois , R. W. Ellsworth , K. Engel , C. Espinoza , K. L. Fan , K. Fang , M. Fernández Alonso , B. Fick , H. Fleischhack , J. L. Flores , N. I. Fraija , D. Garcia , J. A. García-González , G. García-Torales , F. Garfias , G. Giacinti , H. Goksu , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , J. P. Harding , S. Hernandez , I. Herzog , J. Hinton , B. Hona , D. Huang , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , C. M. Hui , B. Humensky , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , A. Jardin-Blicq , H. Jhee , V. Joshi , D. Kieda , G J. Kunde , S. Kunwar , A. Lara , J. Lee , W. H. Lee , D. Lennarz , H. León Vargas , J. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , R. López-Coto , G. Luis-Raya , J. Lundeen , K. Malone , V. Marandon , O. Martinez , I. Martinez-Castellanos , H. Martínez-Huerta , J. Martínez-Castro , J. A. J. Matthews , J. McEnery , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , J. A. Morales-Soto , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nellen , M. Newbold , M. U. Nisa , R. Noriega-Papaqui , L. Olivera-Nieto , N. Omodei , A. Peisker , Y. Pérez Araujo , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , C. D. Rho , C. Rivière , D. Rosa-Gonzalez , E. Ruiz-Velasco , J. Ryan , H. Salazar , F. Salesa Greus , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , H. Schoorlemmer , J. Serna-Franco , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , R. W. Springer , P. Surajbali , I. Taboada , M. Tanner , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , R. Turner , F. Ureña-Mena , L. Villaseñor , X. Wang , I. J. Watson , T. Weisgarber , F. Werner , E. Willox , J. Wood , G. B. Yodh , A. Zepeda

We estimate the TeV gamma-ray fluxes expected from the population of young pulsars in terms of the self-consistent time dependent hadronic-leptonic model for the high energy processes inside the pulsar wind nebulae. This radiation model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Bednarek , M. Bartosik

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Telescope (HAWC) has detected TeV halos associated with two nearby pulsars/pulsar wind nebulae (PWN) -- Geminga and B0656+14. These TeV halos extend up to tens of pc from the central accelerators,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-26 Youyou Li , Oscar Macias , Shinichiro Ando , Jacco Vink

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory has reported the discovery of TeV gamma-ray emission extending several degrees around the positions of Geminga and B0656+14 pulsars. Assuming these gamma rays are produced by inverse Compton scattering off…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Salesa Greus , S. Casanova , B. Dingus , R. Lopez-Coto , H. Zhou

Recently, the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) collaboration reported the discovery of the TeV halo around the Geminga pulsar. The TeV emission is believed to originate from inverse Compton scattering of pulsar-injected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-26 Ruo-Yu Liu , Chong Ge , Xiao-Na Sun , Xiang-Yu Wang

Ultrahigh energy protons and nuclei from extragalactic cosmic ray sources initiate intergalactic electromagnetic cascades, resulting in observable fluxes of $\gamma$-rays in the GeV-TeV energy domain. The total spectrum of such cascade…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 E. V. Khalikov , T. A. Dzhatdoev

TeV haloes are extended sources of very-high-energy gamma rays found around some middle-aged pulsars. The emission spanning several tens of parsecs suggests an efficient confinement of the ultra-relativistic lepton pairs produced by pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 Lioni-Moana Bourguinat , Carmelo Evoli , Pierrick Martin , Sarah Recchia