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The $\gamma$-ray emission from stars is induced by the interaction of cosmic rays with stellar atmospheres and photon fields. This emission is expected to come in two components: a stellar disk emission, where $\gamma$-rays are mainly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Raniere de Menezes , Elena Orlando , Mattia Di Mauro , Andrew Strong

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

Galaxy clusters could produce gamma-rays from inverse Compton scattering of cosmic ray electrons or hadronic interactions of cosmic ray protons with the intracluster medium. It is still an open question on whether gamma-ray emission ($>$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-12 Siddhant Manna , Shantanu Desai

Multiwavelength observations suggest that clusters are reservoirs of vast amounts relativistic electrons and positrons that are either injected into and accelerated directly in the intra-cluster medium, or produced as secondary pairs by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Stephan Zimmer , Jan Conrad , Anders Pinzke

Galactic diffuse continuum gamma-ray emission is intricately related to cosmic-ray physics and radio astronomy. We describe recent results from an approach which endeavours to take advantage of this. Information from cosmic-ray composition…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

We construct a systematic survey of extragalactic \gamma-ray sky at the energies above 100 GeV using the data of Fermi telescope. Such survey has not been previously done by the ground-based Cherenkov gamma-ray telescopes which have,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz , Ie. Vovk

Massive stars are mainly found in stellar associations. These massive star clusters occur in the heart of giant molecular clouds. The strong stellar wind activity in these objects generates large bubbles and induces collective effects that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Gilles Maurin , Alexandre Marcowith , Nukri Komin , Fabien Krayzel , Giovanni Lamanna

The Fermi source 4FGL J1848.7-0129 has been historically related to the globular cluster GLIMPSE-C01 since its very first detection. Although this association is widely accepted, as it appears in the most recent Fermi catalog, it deserves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Pedro L. Luque-Escamilla , Josep Martí , Enrique Mestre , Jorge A. Combi , Juan F. Albacete-Colombo

Numerous extended sources around Galactic pulsars have shown significant $\gamma$-ray emission from GeV to TeV energies, revealing hundreds of TeV energy electrons scattering off of the underlying photon fields through inverse Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-07 Mattia Di Mauro , Silvia Manconi , Michela Negro , Fiorenza Donato

Cosmic rays fill up the entire volume of galaxies, providing an important source of heating and ionisation of the interstellar medium, and may play a significant role in the regulation of star formation and galactic evolution. Diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Troy A. Porter

Inverse Compton scattering by relativistic electrons produces a major component of the diffuse emission from the Galaxy. The photon fields involved are the cosmic microwave background and the interstellar radiation field from stars and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Elena Orlando , Andrew Strong

Recently the Fermi-LAT data have revealed two gamma-ray emitting bubble-shaped structures at the Galactic center. If the observed gamma rays have hadronic origin (collisions of accelerated protons), the bubbles must emit high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-06 Cecilia Lunardini , Soebur Razzaque

TeV gamma-ray emission has been recently observed from direction of a few open clusters containing massive stars. We consider the high energy processes occurring within massive binary systems and in their dense environment by assuming that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-12 W. Bednarek , J. Pabich , T. Sobczak

Stellar winds from massive stars may be significant sources of cosmic rays (CRs). To investigate this connection, we report a detailed study of gamma-ray emission near the young Milky Way star cluster ($\approx$ 0.5 Myr old) in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-18 Paarmita Pandey , Laura A. Lopez , Anna L. Rosen , Todd A. Thompson , Tim Linden , Ian Blackstone

Context: Diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission from cosmic ray (CR) protons scattering off the gas in the intracluster and intergalactic medium (ICM and IGM) remains out of reach for current observations. Detecting this emission would provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-20 Ludwig M. Böss , Ildar Khabibullin , Daniel Karner , Klaus Dolag , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Elena Hernandez-Martinez , Jenny G. Sorce

One of the possible sources of hadronic cosmic rays (CRs) are newborn pulsars. If this is indeed the case, they should feature diffusive gamma-ray halos produced by interactions of CRs with interstellar gas. In this paper we try to identify…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-14 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Maxim S. Pshirkov , Grigory I. Rubtsov

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

We search for gamma-ray emission from 114 Galactic high mass X-ray binaries, including 4 well studied catalogued sources, in 12.5 years of Fermi-LAT data in conjunction with the 10-year point source catalogue. Where a gamma-ray excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Max Harvey , Cameron B. Rulten , Paula M. Chadwick

The Westerlund 1 (Wd 1) is the most massive known young star cluster in the Galaxy, and an extended $\gamma$-ray source HESS J1646-458 surrounding it has been detected up to 80 TeV in the very high energy, implying that cosmic rays (CRs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-27 Zhaodong Shi , Rui-zhi Yang