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I review the present status of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, concentrating on the population of galactic TeV sources. A number of new telescope systems are now being completed, and promise to yield exciting new discoveries, expanding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. P. Rowell

The complex interplay of processes at the Galactic Center is at the heart of numerous past, present, and (likely) future mysteries. We aim at a more complete understanding of how spectra extending to >10 TeV result. We first construct a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-29 Matthew D. Kistler

Using data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, a spatially extended component of gamma rays has been identified from the direction of the Galactic Center, peaking at energies of ~2-3 GeV. More recently, it has been shown that this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-30 Dan Hooper , Ilias Cholis , Tim Linden , Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins , Tracy Slatyer

Analysis of the Fermi-LAT data has revealed two extended structures above and below the Galactic Centre emitting gamma rays with a hard spectrum, the so-called Fermi bubbles. Hadronic models attempting to explain the origin of the Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-19 ANTARES Collaboration , S. Adrián-Martínez , A. Albert , I. Al Samarai , M. André , G. Anton , S. Anvar , M. Ardid , T. Astraatmadja , J-J. Aubert , B. Baret , J. Barrios-Martí , S. Basa , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , C. Bigongiari , C. Bogazzi , B. Bouhou , M. C. Bouwhuis , J. Brunner , J. Busto , A. Capone , L. Caramete , C. Cârloganu , J. Carr , S. Cecchini , Z. Charif , Ph. Charvis , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , F. Classen , R. Coniglione , L. Core , H. Costantini , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , C. Curtil , G. De Bonis , I. Dekeyser , A. Deschamps , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , Q. Dorosti , D. Drouhin , A. Dumas , T. Eberl , U. Emanuele , A. Enzenhöfer , J-P. Ernenwein , S. Escoffier , K. Fehn , P. Fermani , V. Flaminio , F. Folger , U. Fritsch , L. A. Fusco , S. Galatà , P. Gay , S. Geißelsöder , K. Geyer , G. Giacomelli , V. Giordano , A. Gleixner , J. P. Gómez-González , K. Graf , G. Guillard , H. van Haren , A. J. Heijboer , Y. Hello , J. J. Hernández-Rey , B. Herold , J. Hößl , C. Hugon , C. W. James , M. de Jong , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , A. Kappes , U. Katz , P. Kooijman , A. Kouchner , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Lahmann , E. Lambard , G. Lambard , G. Larosa , D. Lattuada , D. Lefèvre , E. Leonora , D. Lo Presti , H. Loehner , S. Loucatos , F. Louis , S. Mangano , M. Marcelin , A. Margiotta , J. A. Martínez-Mora , S. Martini , T. Michael , T. Montaruli , M. Morganti , C. Müller , M. Neff , E. Nezri , D. Palioselitis , G. E. Păvălaş , C. Perrina , V. Popa , T. Pradier , C. Racca , G. Riccobene , R. Richter , C. Rivière , A. Robert , K. Roensch , A. Rostovtsev , D. F. E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , J. Schmid , J. Schnabel , S. Schulte , F. Schüssler , T. Seitz , R. Shanidze , C. Sieger , F. Simeone , A. Spies , M. Spurio , J. J. M. Steijger , Th. Stolarczyk , A. Sánchez-Losa , M. Taiuti , C. Tamburini , Y. Tayalati , A. Trovato , B. Vallage , C. Vallée , V. Van Elewyck , M. Vecchi , P. Vernin , E. Visser , S. Wagner , J. Wilms , E. de Wolf , K. Yatkin , H. Yepes , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

High energy gamma-ray astronomy has recently made significant progresss through ground-based instruments like the {\it H.E.S.S.} array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The unprecedented angular resolution and the large field of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Heinrich J. Voelk

Context. Star-forming galaxies emit {\gamma}rays with relatively low luminosity, but the study of their emission is no less captivating. While it is known that their {\gamma}-ray luminosity in the GeV band is strongly linked to their star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 P. Kornecki , J. Biteau , C. Boisson , P. Cristofari

Cosmic Rays (CRs) interact with the diffuse gas, radiation, and magnetic fields in the interstellar medium (ISM) to produce electromagnetic emissions that are a significant component of the all-sky flux across a broad wavelength range. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 P. D. Marinos , G. P. Rowell , T. A. Porter , G. Jóhannesson

This paper analyzes astrophysical scenarios that may be detected at the upper end of the energy range of the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), as a result of cosmic-ray (CR) diffusion in the interstellar medium (ISM). Hadronic…

Inverse Compton scattering appears to play a more important role in the diffuse Galactic continuum emission than previously thought, from MeV to GeV energies. We compare models having a large inverse Compton component with EGRET data, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong

Despite the influx of unprecedented-quality data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope that have been collected over nine years of operation, the contribution of normal star-forming galaxies to the extragalactic gamma-ray background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 I. Komis , V. Pavlidou , A. Zezas

The Galactic gamma-ray diffuse emission (GDE) is emitted by cosmic rays (CRs), ultra-relativistic protons and electrons, interacting with gas and electromagnetic radiation fields in the interstellar medium. Here we present the analysis of…

The solar disk is a continuous source of GeV--TeV gamma rays. The emission is thought to originate from hadronic Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) interacting with the gas in the photosphere and uppermost convection zone after being reflected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Jung-Tsung Li , Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi , John F. Beacom , Annika H. G. Peter

Latest precise cosmic-ray (CR) measurements and present gamma-ray observations have started challenging our understanding of CR transport and interaction in the Galaxy. Moreover, because the density of CRs is similar to the density of the…

We report a detailed analysis on the young stellar cluster Berkeley 59 using Fermi-LAT. Using up-to-date source catalog and background models, we found significant extended GeV emission around Berkeley 59, which can be modeled by a radial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Ziwei Ou , Xiaolong Yang , Songpeng Pei

The Fermi-LAT \gamma-ray data have been used to study the morphological and spectral features of the so-called GeV excess - a diffuse radiation component recently discovered towards the Galactic centre. We used the likelihood method to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Rui-zhi Yang , Felix Aharonian

Gamma rays reveal extreme, nonthermal conditions in the Universe. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been exploring the gamma-ray sky for more than four years, enabling a search for powerful transients like gamma-ray bursts, solar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 D. J. Thompson

We present a new method to interpret the $\gamma$-ray data of our inner Galaxy as measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT). We train and test convolutional neural networks with simulated Fermi-LAT images based on models tuned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-29 Sascha Caron , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Luc Hendriks , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

Many galaxy clusters have giant halos of non-thermal radio emission, indicating the presence of relativistic electrons in the clusters. Relativistic protons may also be accelerated by merger and/or accretion shocks in galaxy clusters. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 Shao-Qiang Xi , Xiang-Yu Wang , Yun-Feng Liang , Fang-Kun Peng , Rui-Zhi Yang , Ruo-Yu Liu

We present an analysis of 17 years of Fermi-LAT observations of the microquasar SS~433. We detect four GeV sources in the region: a newly identified source, PS J1910+0550, located outside W50; the previously reported source J1913+0512; and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Qiwang Sun , Dmitry Khangulyan , Jiren Liu , Siming Liu

The nucleus of the Milky Way is known to harbour regions of intense star formation activity as well as a super-massive black hole. Recent Fermi space telescope observations have revealed regions of \gamma-ray emission reaching far above and…