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Joint observations of extreme blazars with Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACT) have been previously used to derive lower bounds on intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF). We update these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-20 J. Blunier , A. Neronov , D. Semikoz

The intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) present in the voids of large-scale structures is considered to be the weakest magnetic field in the Universe. Gamma-ray observations of blazars in the GeV-TeV domain have led to lower limits on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-07 D. Miceli , P. Da Vela , E. Prandini

Extended and delayed emission around distant TeV sources induced by the effects of propagation of gamma rays through the intergalactic medium can be used for the measurement of the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF). We search for delayed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 MAGIC Collaboration , V. A. Acciari , I. Agudo , T. Aniello , S. Ansoldi , L. A. Antonelli , A. Arbet Engels , M. Artero , K. Asano , D. Baack , A. Babić , A. Baquero , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , I. Batković , J. Becerra González , W. Bednarek , E. Bernardini , M. Bernardos , A. Berti , J. Besenrieder , W. Bhattacharyya , C. Bigongiari , A. Biland , O. Blanch , H. Bökenkamp , G. Bonnoli , Ž. Bošnjak , I. Burelli , G. Busetto , R. Carosi , G. Ceribella , M. Cerruti , Y. Chai , A. Chilingarian , S. Cikota , E. Colombo , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , S. Covino , G. D'Amico , V. D'Elia , P. Da Vela , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , B. De Lotto , A. Del Popolo , M. Delfino , J. Delgado , C. Delgado Mendez , D. Depaoli , F. Di Pierro , L. Di Venere , E. Do Souto Espiñeira , D. Dominis Prester , A. Donini , D. Dorner , M. Doro , D. Elsaesser , V. Fallah Ramazani , L. Fariña , A. Fattorini , L. Font , C. Fruck , S. Fukami , Y. Fukazawa , R. J. García López , M. Garczarczyk , S. Gasparyan , M. Gaug , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , P. Gliwny , N. Godinović , J. G. Green , D. Green , D. Hadasch , A. Hahn , T. Hassan , L. Heckmann , J. Herrera , D. Hrupec , M. Hütten , T. Inada , R. Iotov , K. Ishio , Y. Iwamura , I. Jiménez Martínez , J. Jormanainen , L. Jouvin , D. Kerszberg , Y. Kobayashi , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , A. Lamastra , D. Lelas , F. Leone , E. Lindfors , L. Linhoff , I. Liodakis , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , R. López-Coto , M. López-Moya , A. López-Oramas , S. Loporchio , A. Lorini , B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga , C. Maggio , P. Majumdar , M. Makariev , M. Mallamaci , G. Maneva , M. Manganaro , K. Mannheim , M. Mariotti , M. Martínez , A. Mas Aguilar , D. Mazin , S. Menchiari , S. Mender , S. Mićanović , D. Miceli , T. Miener , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , E. Molina , H. A. Mondal , A. Moralejo , D. Morcuende , V. Moreno , E. Moretti , T. Nakamori , C. Nanci , L. Nava , V. Neustroev , M. Nievas Rosillo , C. Nigro , K. Nilsson , K. Nishijima , K. Noda , S. Nozaki , Y. Ohtani , T. Oka , J. Otero-Santos , S. Paiano , M. Palatiello , D. Paneque , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , L. Pavletić , P. Peñil , M. Persic , M. Pihet , P. G. Prada Moroni , E. Prandini , C. Priyadarshi , I. Puljak , W. Rhode , M. Ribó , J. Rico , C. Righi , A. Rugliancich , N. Sahakyan , T. Saito , S. Sakurai , K. Satalecka , F. G. Saturni , B. Schleicher , K. Schmidt , F. Schmuckermaier , J. L. Schubert , T. Schweizer , J. Sitarek , I. Šnidarić , D. Sobczynska , A. Spolon , A. Stamerra , J. Strišković , D. Strom , M. Strzys , Y. Suda , T. Surić , M. Takahashi , R. Takeishi , F. Tavecchio , P. Temnikov , T. Terzić , M. Teshima , L. Tosti , S. Truzzi , A. Tutone , S. Ubach , J. van Scherpenberg , G. Vanzo , M. Vazquez Acosta , S. Ventura , V. Verguilov , I. Viale , C. F. Vigorito , V. Vitale , I. Vovk , M. Will , C. Wunderlich , T. Yamamoto , D. Zarić , A. Neronov , D. Semikoz , A. Korochkin

One of the most promising ways to probe intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMFs) is through gamma rays produced in electromagnetic cascades initiated by high-energy gamma rays or cosmic rays in the intergalactic space. Because the charged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 Rafael Alves Batista , Andrey Saveliev

Large-scale intergalactic magnetic fields may contain a mixture of galactic and cosmogenic contributions, that can be probed via observations of $\gamma$-ray "echo" - a delayed emission from electromagnetic cascades initiated by the highest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Ievgen Vovk

We report a measurement of intergalactic magnetic fields using combined data from Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes and Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, based on the spectral data alone. If blazars are assumed to produce both gamma rays and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-03 Warren Essey , Shin'ichiro Ando , Alexander Kusenko

We outline the science prospects for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory operating at energies above few tens of GeV. With its low energy threshold, large…

Distant BL Lacertae objects emit $\gamma$ rays which interact with the extragalactic background light (EBL), creating electron-positron pairs, and reducing the flux measured by ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-18 Justin D. Finke , Luis C. Reyes , Markos Georganopoulos , Kaeleigh Reynolds , Marco Ajello , Stephen J. Fegan , Kevin McCann

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

The intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) in cosmic voids can be indirectly probed through its effect on electromagnetic cascades initiated by a source of TeV gamma rays, such as blazars, a subclass of active galactic nuclei. Blazars that are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-12 Timothy C. Arlen , Vladimir V. Vassiliev

A non-zero intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) would potentially produce detectable effects on cascade emission from blazars. Depending on the strength of the IGMF, the cascade emission may be time delayed or angularly broadened compared to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Elisa Pueschel

Intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMF) can cause the appearance of halos around the gamma-ray images of distant objects because an electromagnetic cascade initiated by a high-energy gamma-ray interaction with the photon background is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Shin'ichiro Ando , Alexander Kusenko

The origin of magnetic fields in the Universe is an open problem. Seed magnetic fields possibly produced in early times may have survived up to the present day close to their original form, providing an untapped window to the primeval…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-01 A. Saveliev , R. Alves Batista

We discuss the prospects for the detection of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next generation, ground-based facility of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) operating above a few tens of GeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Jun Kakuwa , Kohta Murase , Kenji Toma , Susumu Inoue , Ryo Yamazaki , Kunihito Ioka

The existence of intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMF) has so far not been established through observations. The IGMF is expected to be generated either via processes mainly connected to astrophysical processes or it could be a relic of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Matías Sotomayor Webar , Yosef Abed , Dieter Horns

Following our previously proposed technique, we have used the recent gamma-ray observations of Mrk 421 to place theoretically significant constraints on and possible estimates of the intergalactic infrared radiation field (IIRF) which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 F. W. Stecker , O. C. De Jager

High-energy photons can produce electron-positron pairs upon interacting with the extragalactic background light (EBL). These pairs will in turn be deflected by the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF), before possibly up-scattering photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-21 J. Tjemsland , M. Meyer , F. Vazza

Very high energy (VHE $>$100 GeV) gamma rays coming from blazars can produce pairs when interacting with the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) and the Cosmic Microwave Background, generating an electromagnetic cascade. Depending on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-07 M. Fernandez Alonso , A. D. Supanitsky , A. C. Rovero

Pair creation on the cosmic infrared background and subsequent inverse-Compton scattering on the CMB potentially reprocesses the TeV emission of blazars into faint GeV halos with structures sensitive to intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMF).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-20 Paul Tiede , Avery E. Broderick , Mohamad Shalaby , Christoph Pfrommer , Ewald Puchwein , Philip Chang , Astrid Lamberts

Gamma rays at rest frame energies as high as 90 GeV have been reported from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). There is considerable hope that a confirmed GRB detection will be possible with the upcoming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Rudy C. Gilmore , Aurelien Bouvier , Valerie Connaughton , Adam Goldstein , Nepomuk Otte , Joel R. Primack , David A. Williams