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Recent studies have found a positive correlation between the star-formation rate of galaxies and their gamma-ray luminosity. Galaxies with a high star-formation rate are expected to produce a large amount of high-energy cosmic rays, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Cesar Rojas-Bravo , Miguel Araya

Recent X-ray and gamma-ray observations of the Galactic center region by the ASCA and CGRO/EGRET instruments show evidence of 2--10 keV and $>1$ GeV continuum emission as well as 6.7 and 6.4 keV line emission from the inner $0.2^\circ$ of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Yusef-Zadeh , W. Purcell , E. Gotthelf

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 consider a possibility of identification of sources of cosmic rays (CR) of the energy above 1 TeV via observation of degree-scale extended gamma-ray emission which traces the locations of recent sources in the Galaxy. Such emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz

Over the past few years, there has been a hint of the $\gamma$-ray excess observed by the Fermi-LAT satellite borne telescope from the regions surrounding the Galactic Centre at an energy range $\sim 1$-$3$ GeV. The nature of this excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-21 Anirban Biswas

The Galactic gamma-ray diffuse emission is currently observed in the GeV-TeV energy range with unprecedented accuracy by the Fermi satellite. Understanding this component is crucial as it provides a background to many different signals such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 Timur Delahaye , Armand Fiasson , Martin Pohl , Pierre Salati

We obtained X-ray XMM-Newton observations of the open cluster Berkeley 87 and the massive star-forming region (SFR) ON 2. In addition, archival infrared Spitzer Space Telescope observations were used. It is likely that the SFR ON 2 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. M. Oskinova , R. A. Gruendl , R. Ignace , W. -R. Hamann , Y. -H. Chu , A. Feldmeier

Measuring the diffuse Galactic gamma-ray flux in the TeV range is difficult for ground-based gamma-ray telescopes because of the residual cosmic-ray background, which is higher than the gamma-ray flux by several orders of magnitude. Its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-22 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz

We report the discovery of GeV emission at the position of supernova remnant Kes 17 by using the data from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Kes 17 can be clearly detected with a significance of ~12…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 J. H. K. Wu , E. M. H. Wu , C. Y. Hui , P. H. T. Tam , R. H. H. Huang , A. K. H. Kong , K. S. Cheng

Using 16 years of data collected by Fermi Large Area Telescope and 1523 days of survey data from High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory, we discovered the long-sought second GeV-TeV connection towards the globular cluster (GC) UKS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-14 Jiwon Shin , C. Y. Hui , Sangin Kim , Kwangmin Oh , Ellis R. Owen

The H.E.S.S. collaboration has reported a high-energy spherically symmetric diffuse gamma-ray emission in the inner 50 pc of the Milky Way, up to ~ 50 TeV. Here we propose a leptonic model which provides an alternative to the hadronic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-05 Thomas Lacroix , Joseph Silk , Emmanuel Moulin , Celine Boehm

The HESS instrument has observed a diffuse flux of ~ TeV gamma rays from a large solid angle around the Galactic center (GC). This emission is correlated with the distribution of gas in the region suggesting that the gamma rays originate in…

Observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the \textit{Fermi} mission of diffuse $\gamma$-rays in a mid-latitude region in the third quadrant (Galactic longitude $l$ from $200\arcdeg$ to $260\arcdeg$ and latitude $| b |$ from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-04 A. A. Abdo

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

We report the detection of gamma-ray emission from PWN Kes 75 and PSR J1846-0258. Through modeling the spectral energy distribution incorporating the new Fermi-LAT data, we find the the observed gamma-ray emission is likely a combination of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Samayra M. Straal , Joseph D. Gelfand , Jordan L. Eagle

We study the high latitude (|b|>10) diffuse gamma-ray emission in the Galaxy in light of the recently published data from the Fermi collaboration at energies between 100 MeV and 100 GeV. The unprecedented accuracy in these measurements…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-16 I. Cholis , M. Tavakoli , C. Evoli , L. Maccione , P. Ullio

The EGRET results for gamma-ray intensities in and near the Galactic Plane have been analysed in some detail. Attention has been concentrated on energies above 1 GeV and the individual intensities in a $4^\circ$ longitude bin have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. D. Erlykin , A. W. Wolfendale

Some HII regions that surround young stellar clusters are bordered by molecular shells that appear to expand at a rate inconsistent with our current model simulations. In this study we focus on the dynamics of Sharpless 171 (including NGC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-03 G. F. Gahm , M. J. C. Wilhelm , C. M. Persson , A. A. Djupvik , S. F. Portegies Zwart

A majority of the $\gamma$-ray emission from star-forming galaxies is generated by the interaction of high-energy cosmic rays with the interstellar gas and radiation fields. Star-forming galaxies are expected to contribute to both the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 M. Ajello , M. Di Mauro , V. S. Paliya , S. Garrappa

The diffuse gamma-ray background radiation (GBR) at high Galactic latitudes could be dominated by inverse Compton scattering (ICS) of cosmic ray (CR) electrons on the cosmic microwave background radiation (CBR) and on starlight (SL) in an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnon Dar