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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

We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope's detection of extended gamma-ray emission towards the direction of the young massive star cluster NGC 3603. The emission shows a hard spectrum with a photon index of 2.3 from 1 GeV to 250 GeV. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 Rui-zhi Yang , Felix Aharonian

We report the detection of gamma-ray emission by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) towards the young massive star cluster RCW 38 in the 1-500 GeV photon energy range. We found spatially extended GeV emission towards the direction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-29 Ting-Ting Ge , Xiao-Na Sun , Rui-Zhi Yang , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam , Ming-Xuan Lu , En-Wei Liang

We report the results of our analysis of the publicly available data obtained by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board of the Fermi satellite towards the direction of the young massive star cluster Westerlund 2. We found significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 Rui-zhi Yang , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Felix Aharonian

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

In this paper we report the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) detection of the gamma-ray emission toward the young star forming region W43. Using the latest source catalog and diffuse background models, the extended gamma-ray excess is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-19 Rui-zhi Yang , Yuan Wang

We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) detection of the gamma-ray emission towards the young massive star cluster RSGC 1. Using the latest source catalog and diffuse background models, we found that the diffuse gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-04 Xiao-Na Sun , Rui-Zhi Yang , Xiang-Yu Wang

We report the detection of high-energy gamma-ray signal towards the young star-forming region, W40. Using 10-year Pass 8 data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT), we extracted an extended gamma-ray excess region with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Xiao-Na Sun , Rui-Zhi Yang , Yun-Feng Liang , Fang-Kun Peng , Hai-Ming Zhang , Xiang-Yu Wang , Felix Aharonian

Fermi has detected gamma-ray emission from eight globular clusters. We suggest that the gamma-ray emission from globular clusters may result from the inverse Compton scattering between relativistic electrons/positrons in the pulsar wind of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 K. S. Cheng , D. O. Chernyshov , V. A. Dogiel , C. Y. Hui , A. K. H. Kong

Current theories predict relativistic hadronic particle populations in clusters of galaxies in addition to the already observed relativistic leptons. In these scenarios hadronic interactions give rise to neutral pions which decay into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-06 M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Albert , A. Allafort , W. B. Atwood , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , E. Bottacini , T. J. Brandt , J. Bregeon , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , R. C. G. Chaves , J. Chiang , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , F. D'Ammando , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , S. W. Digel , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , C. Favuzzi , A. Franckowiak , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , G. Godfrey , G. A. Gomez-Vargas , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , J. Hewitt , R. E. Hughes , T. E. Jeltema , G. Jóhannesson , A. S. Johnson , T. Kamae , J. Kataoka , J. Knödlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , M. Llena Garde , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , M. Mayer , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , R. Nemmen , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , J. S. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , G. Pivato , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , J. Ruan , M. Sánchez-Conde , A. Schulz , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , E. Storm , A. W. Strong , D. J. Suson , H. Takahashi , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , L. Tibaldo , M. Tinivella , D. F. Torres , E. Troja , Y. Uchiyama , T. L. Usher , J. Vandenbroucke , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , S. Zimmer , C. Pfrommer , A. Pinzke

In re-analyzing the archival Chandra data of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, we have detected a new diffuse X-ray emission feature within the half-mass radius of the cluster. The spectrum of the diffuse emission can be described by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 E. M. H. Wu , C. Y. Hui , A. K. H. Kong , P. H. T. Tam , K. S. Cheng , V. A. Dogiel

Young open clusters are likely sites of cosmic ray acceleration as indicated by recent detections of the TeV gamma-ray sources in the directions of two open clusters (Cyg OB2 and Westerlund 2) and their directional proximity to some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 W. Bednarek

We analyzed 12-year Fermi Large Area Telescope gamma-ray data in the inner Galaxy centered at (l=30$^{\circ}$, b=0$^{\circ}$) and (l=330$^{\circ}$, b=0$^{\circ}$). We found significant hardening of the spectrum of the diffuse gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-22 Bing Liu , Rui-zhi Yang

We present the first observations of diffuse radiation in the far ultraviolet (1000 -- 1150 \AA) from the Large Magellanic Cloud based on observations made with the {\it Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer}. The fraction of the total…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Ananta C. Pradhan , Amit Pathak , Jayant Murthy

We present the first Chandra X-ray observations of H72.97-69.39, a highly-embedded, potential super-star cluster (SSC) in its infancy located in the star-forming complex N79 of the Large Magellanic Cloud. We detect particularly hard,…

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

We report the discovery of high-energy (E>100 MeV) gamma-ray emission from NGC 1275, a giant elliptical galaxy lying at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, based on observations made with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo , H. D. Aller , M. F. Aller , K. I. Kellermann , Y. Y. Kovalev , Y. A. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , A. B. Pushkarev

We demonstrate that young star clusters have a $\gamma$-ray surface brightness comparable to that of the diffuse Galactic emission (DGE), and estimate that their sky coverage in the direction of the inner Galaxy exceeds unity. We therefore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-27 Biman B. Nath , David Eichler

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

Diffuse emission from the Milky Way dominates the gamma-ray sky. About 80% of the high-energy luminosity of the Milky Way comes from processes in the interstellar medium. The Galactic diffuse emission traces interactions of energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-25 T. A. Porter , S. W. Digel , I. A. Grenier , I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong
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