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The three major large-scale, diffuse $\gamma$-ray structures of the Milky Way are the Galactic disk, a bulge-like GeV excess towards the Galactic center, and the Fermi bubble. Whether such structures can also be present in other normal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 Li Feng , Zhiyuan Li , Meng Su , Pak-Hin T. Tam , Yang Chen

Gamma-ray Astronomy studies cosmic accelerators through their electromagnetic radiation in the energy range between ~100 MeV and ~100 TeV. The present most sensitive observations in this energy band are performed, from space, by the Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-29 Javier Rico

The origin of the inner Galactic emission, measured by COMPTEL with a flux of $\sim 10^{-2} ~{\rm MeV~ cm}^{-2}~ {\rm s}^{-1}~ {\rm sr}^{-1}$ in the 1-30 MeV energy range from the inner Galactic region, has remained unsettled since its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Naomi Tsuji , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Hiroki Yoneda , Reshmi Mukherjee , Hirokazu Odaka

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 Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, as an all-sky survey and monitoring mission, is producing daily/weekly sampled gamma-ray light curves for dozens of blazars and other high-energy sources. Highlights on MeV-GeV gamma-ray variability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-13 Stefano Ciprini

One of the most exciting discoveries of recent years is a pair of gigantic gamma-ray emission regions, the so-called Fermi bubbles, above and below the Galactic center. The bubbles, discovered by the Fermi space telescope, extend up to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Satyendra Thoudam

Cold dark matter models predict the existence of a large number of substructures within dark matter halos. If the cold dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles, their annihilation within these substructures could lead to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-10 Jiaxin Han , Carlos S. Frenk , Vincent R. Eke , Liang Gao , Simon D. M. White , Alexey Boyarsky , Denys Malyshev , Oleg Ruchayskiy

We show the existence of a statistically significant, robust detection of a gamma-ray source in the Milky Way Galactic Center that is consistent with a spatially extended signal using about 4 years of Fermi-LAT data. The gamma-ray flux is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-23 Kevork N. Abazajian , Manoj Kaplinghat

Recently, the {\it{Fermi}} space telescope has discovered two large $\gamma$-ray emission regions, the so-called "Fermi bubbles", that extend up to $\sim 50^\circ$ above and below the Galactic center. The $\gamma$-ray emission from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Satyendra Thoudam

Gamma-rays, the most energetic photons, carry information from the far reaches of extragalactic space with minimal interaction or loss of information. They bring messages about particle acceleration in environments so extreme they cannot be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-15 Kristi Engel , Jordan Goodman , Petra Huentemeyer , Carolyn Kierans , Tiffany R. Lewis , Michela Negro , Marcos Santander , David A. Williams , Alice Allen , Tsuguo Aramaki , Rafael Alves Batista , Mathieu Benoit , Peter Bloser , Jennifer Bohon , Aleksey E. Bolotnikov , Isabella Brewer , Michael S. Briggs , Chad Brisbois , J. Michael Burgess , Eric Burns , Regina Caputo , Gabriella A. Carini , S. Bradley Cenko , Eric Charles , Stefano Ciprini , Valerio D'Elia , Tansu Daylan , James Distel , Axel Donath , Wade Duvall , Henrike Fleischhack , Corinne Fletcher , Wen Fe Fong , Dario Gasparrini , Marco Giardino , Adam Goldstein , Sean Griffin , J. Eric Grove , Rachel Hamburg , J. Patrick Harding , Jeremy Hare , Boyan Hristov , C. Michelle Hui , Tess Jaffe , Pete Jenke , Oleg Kargaltsev , Christopher M. Karwin , Matthew Kerr , Dongsung Kim , Daniel Kocevski , John Krizmanic , Ranjan Laha , Niccolo Di Lalla , Jason Legere , Cristina Leto , Richard Leys , Fabrizio Lucarelli , Israel Martinez-Castellanos , Alessandro Maselli , M. Nicola Mazziotta , Mark McConnell , Julie McEnery , Jessica Metcalfe , Manuel Meyer , Alexander A. Moiseev , Reshmi Mukherjee , Michela Negro , Keiichi Ogasawara , Nicola Omodei , Ivan Peric , Jeremy S. Perkins , Matteo Perri , Carlotta Pittori , Gianluca Polenta , Daniel Poulson , Robert Preece , Giacomo Principe , Judith L. Racusin , Oliver Roberts , Nicholas L. Rodd , Peter Shawhan , Thomas Shutt , Clio Sleator , Alan Smale , John Smedley , Jacob R. Smith , Jay Tasson , Peter Teuben , John Tomsick , Peter Veres , Francesco Verrecchia , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge , Joshua Wood , Richard S. Woolf , Hui Yang , Bing Zhang , Haocheng Zhang , Andreas Zoglauer

The diffuse gamma-ray emission between 10 and 1000 TeV from the Galactic plane was recently measured by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO). These observations will help tremendously in constraining the propagation and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-06 Rui Zhang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Zhi-Hui Xu , Shiping Zhao , Qiang Yuan

Diffuse emission in gamma-rays and neutrinos are produced by the interaction of cosmic rays with the interstellar medium. Below some hundreds of TeV, the sources of these cosmic rays are most likely Galactic. Hence, observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Anton Stall , Philipp Mertsch

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is produced by cosmic rays (CRs) interacting with the interstellar gas and radiation field. Measurements by the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-23 LAT Collaboration

We are constructing the broadband SED catalog of the MOJAVE sample from the radio to the gamma-ray band using MOJAVE, Swift UVOT/XRT/BAT, and Fermi/LAT data, in order to understand the emission mechanism of extragalactic outflows and to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-25 C. S. Chang , E. Ros , M. Kadler , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , E. Angelakis , L. Fuhrmann , I. Nestoras , H. Ungerechts

Thanks to the Fermi gamma-ray satellite and the current Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, radio galaxies have arisen as a new class of high- and very-high energy emitters. The favourable orientation of their jets makes radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Eleonora Torresi

The gamma-ray background is still a subject under great debate. All phenomena in the universe emitting gamma-rays can contribute directly as diffuse emission or as an isotropic component from unresolved point sources. The question of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-29 Tanja M. Kneiske

The extragalactic sources of ultra-high-energy (E > 4x10^19 eV) cosmic rays that make a small contribution to the flux of particles recorded by ground-based arrays are discussed. We show that cosmic rays from such sources can produce a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-09 Anna Uryson

Cosmic rays, along with stellar radiation and magnetic fields, are known to make up a significant fraction of the energy density of galaxies such as the Milky Way. When cosmic rays interact in the interstellar medium, they produce gamma-ray…

We report evidence for extended gamma-ray emission from the Virgo, Fornax and Coma clusters based on a maximum-likelihood analysis of the 3-year Fermi-LAT data. For all three clusters, excess emission is observed within three degrees of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Jiaxin Han , Carlos S. Frenk , Vincent R. Eke , Liang Gao , Simon D. M. White

For more than one year the Fermi Large Area Telescope has been surveying the gamma-ray sky from 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV with unprecedented statistics and angular resolution. One of the key science targets of the Fermi mission is diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Luigi Tibaldo