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We investigate the neutrino - cosmic ray connection for sources in the Galaxy in terms of two observables: the shape of the energy spectrum and the distribution of arrival directions. We also study the associated gamma ray emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Haim Goldberg , Angela V. Olinto , Thomas C. Paul , Brian J. Vlcek , Thomas J. Weiler

Very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays have been detected from the direction of the Galactic center. The H.E.S.S. Cherenkov telescopes have located this gamma-ray source with a preliminary position uncertainty of 8.5" per axis (6" statistic + 6"…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-13 Attila Abramowski , Dieter Horns , Stefan Gillessen , Joachim Ripken , Christopher van Eldik

In the 1960s, the remnants of supernova explosions (SNRs) were indicated as a possible source of galactic cosmic rays through the Diffusive Shock Acceleration (DSA) mechanism. Since then, the observation of gamma-ray emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-28 Andrea Giuliani , Martina Cardillo

We first report GeV $\gamma$-ray emission from supernova remnant (SNR) G15.9+0.2 in this work. The results show that its power-law spectral index is 2.94$\pm$0.25 with a 6.47$\sigma$ significance level, and the $\gamma$-ray emission can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Yunchuan Xiang , Zejun Jiang , Mengyao Tang

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely considered the most likely source of cosmic rays below the knee ($10^{15}$ eV). Studies of GeV and TeV gamma-ray emission in the vicinity of SNRs, in combination with multi-wavelength observations, can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Amanda Weinstein

Galactic diffuse emissions in gamma rays and neutrinos arise from interactions of cosmic rays with the interstellar medium and probe the cosmic-ray intensity away from the Solar system. Model predictions for those are influenced by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Anton Stall , Philipp Mertsch

It is well-known that there are two types of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs): short/hard and long/soft ones, respectively. The long GRBs are coupled to supernovae, but the short ones are associated with the so called macronovae (also known as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-06 Levente Borvák , Attila Mészáros , Jakub Řípa

We present a catalog of point gamma-ray sources detected by the EGRET detector aboard the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. We have used the whole gamma-ray dataset of reprocessed photons at energies above 100 MeV together with new Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jean-Marc Casandjian , Isabelle A. Grenier

Very-high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma radiation has already been detected from several supernova remnants (SNRs). These objects, which are well-studied in radio, optical and X-ray wavelengths, constitute one of the most intriguing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Anne Bochow , Svenja Carrigan , Henning Gast , Vincent Marandon , Matthieu Renaud , Werner Hofmann

We collect the 2LAC and MOJAVE quasi-simultaneous data to investigate the radio-gamma connection of blazars. The cross sample contains 166 sources. The statistic analysis based on this sample confirms positive correlations between these two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-03 Fan Xu-Liang , Bai Jin-Ming , Liu Hong-Tao , Chen Liang , Liao Neng-Hui

Astrophysical gamma-ray spectroscopy is an invaluable tool for studying nuclear astrophysics, supernova structure, recent star formation in the Milky Way and mixing of nucleosynthesis products in the interstellar medium. After a short,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Nikos Prantzos

We estimate the galaxy density along lines of sight to hard extragalactic gamma-ray sources by correlating source positions on the sky with a void catalog based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Extragalactic gamma-ray sources that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Furniss , P. M. Sutter , J. R. Primack , A. Dominguez

We report on the results from our $\gamma$-ray analysis of the supernova remnant (SNR) RCW 103 region. The data were taken with the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. An extended source is found at a position…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang , Xiao Zhang , Yang Chen

We aim to test the plausibility of a theoretical framework in which the gamma-ray emission detected from supernova remnants may be of hadronic origin, i.e., due to the decay of neutral pions produced in nuclear collisions involving…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Damiano Caprioli

While supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely thought to be powerful accelerators, evidence comes largely from a small number of well-studied cases. Here we systematically determine the gamma-ray emission from all known Galactic SNRs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 J. W. Hewitt , F. Acero , T. J. Brandt , J. Cohen , F. de Palma , F. Giordano

Correlations between gamma-ray and X-ray spectral properties of pulsars are investigated in order to provide observational hints on physics involved in pulsars' high-energy emissions. Using a sample of 43 pulsars detected in both X-ray and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Ashwin Aravindaraj , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

With a decade of gamma-ray data from the Fermi-LAT telescope, we can now hope to answer how well we know the local Universe at gamma-ray frequencies. On the other hand, with gamma-ray data alone it is not possible to directly access the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-27 Simone Ammazzalorso , Nicolao Fornengo , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Marco Regis

We investigate the detectability of gamma-ray emission from long-lived radioactive isotopes in r-process-enriched remnants, focusing on how assumptions about their spatial distribution introduce uncertainty into detection prospects. Using a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-18 Benjamin Amend , Christopher L. Fryer , Matthew R. Mumpower , Oleg Korobkin

We report the discovery of extended gamma-ray emission measured by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in the region of the supernova remnant (SNR) HB3 (G132.7+1.3) and the W3 HII complex adjacent to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 H. Katagiri , K. Yoshida , J. Ballet , M. H. Grondin , Y. Hanabata , J. W. Hewitt , H. Kubo , M. Lemoine-Goumard

The problem of missing Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) refers to the issue that the currently known Galactic SNRs are significantly incomplete compared to the theoretical prediction. To expand the sample of Galactic SNRs, we use GLEAM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 Tian-Xian Luo , Ping Zhou , Hao-Ning He