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Pulsar halos provide a unique probe of cosmic-ray propagation in the vicinity of pulsars and have important implications for our understanding of particle diffusion in the interstellar medium. However, the number of firmly identified pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Yong-Jian Wei , En-Sheng Chen , Kun Fang , Xiao-Jun Bi

The possibility of slow diffusion regions as the origin for extended TeV emission halos around some pulsars (such as PSR J0633+1746 and PSR B0656+14) challenges the standard scaling of the electron diffusion coefficient in the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-14 Illya Plotnikov , Allard Jan van Marle , Claire Guépin , Alexandre Marcowith , Pierrick Martin

Magnetic halos of galaxies are crucial for understanding galaxy evolution, galactic-scale outflows, and feedback from star formation activity. Identifying the magnetised halo of the Milky Way is challenging because of the potential…

In this letter we propose that the X-ray and the TeV observations in the vicinity of Geminga can be understood in the framework of anisotropic diffusion of injected electrons/positrons. This interpretation only requires the turbulence in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-04 Ruo-Yu Liu , Huirong Yan , Heshou Zhang

Low-frequency polarisation observations of pulsars, facilitated by next-generation radio telescopes, provide powerful probes of astrophysical plasmas that span many orders of magnitude in magnetic field strength and scale: from pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 C. Sobey , the LOFAR , MWA collaborations

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

The interstellar medium is a multi-phase, magnetized, and highly turbulent medium. In this paper, we address both theoretical and observational aspects of plasma turbulence in the interstellar medium. We successively consider radio wave…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-19 Katia Ferriere

Turbulence is a complex physical process prevalent in modern physics, particularly in ionized environments like interstellar gas, where magnetic fields play a dynamic role. However, the precise influence of magnetic fields in such settings…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-12 Guang-Xing Li , Mengke Zhao

More than a dozen blazars are known to be emitters of multi-TeV gamma rays, often with strong and rapid flaring activity. By interacting with photons of the cosmic microwave and infrared backgrounds, these gamma rays inevitably produce…

We examine ultraviolet halos around a sample of highly inclined galaxies within 25 Mpc to measure their morphology and luminosity. Despite contamination from galactic light scattered into the wings of the point-spread function, we find that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Edmund Hodges-Kluck , Julian Cafmeyer , Joel Bregman

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

We study the characteristic size and shape of idealized blazar-induced cascade halos in the $1-100 \, {\rm GeV}$ energy range assuming various non-helical and helical configurations for the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF). While the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Andrew J. Long , Tanmay Vachaspati

Diffuse gamma-ray emission (DGE) has been discovered over the Galactic disk in the energy range from sub-GeV to sub-PeV. While it is believed to be dominated by the pionic emission of cosmic ray (CR) hadrons via interactions with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-18 Kai Yan , Ruo-Yu Liu

The Galactic magnetic field plays an important role in the evolution of the Galaxy, but its small-scale behaviour is still poorly known. It is also unknown whether it permeates the halo of the Galaxy or not. By using observations of pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-09 Federico Abbate , Andrea Possenti , Caterina Tiburzi , Ewan Barr , Willem van Straten , Alessandro Ridolfi , Paulo Freire

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

It's generally believed that young and rapidly rotating pulsars are important sites of particle's acceleration, in which protons can be accelerated to relativistic energy above the polar cap region if the magnetic moment is antiparallel to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Zhi-Xiong Li , Gui-Fang Lin , Wei-Wei Na

Understanding the physics of how stars form is a highly-prioritized goal of modern Astrophysics, in part because star formation is linked to both galactic dynamics on large scales and to the formation of planets on small scales. It is…

The origin of intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMFs) remains one of the key open questions in cosmology. Gamma-ray pair halos produced by electromagnetic cascades from TeV-emitting blazars provide a powerful indirect probe of these fields.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Ao Zhang , Wenlei Chen , Manel Errando

Observations of X-ray filaments attached to a couple of powerful pulsars suggest escape of TeV electrons and/or positrons (e$^{\pm}$) from pulsar bow shocks into surrounding large scale magnetic fields. These filaments are usually…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 HongYu Pu , Siming Liu

Spiral galaxies host dynamically important magnetic fields which can affect gas flows in the disks and halos. Total magnetic fields in spiral galaxies are strongest (up to 30 \muG) in the spiral arms where they are mostly turbulent or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Rainer Beck