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Motivated by the discovery of the non-thermal Fermi bubble features both below and above the Galactic plane, we investigate a scenario in which these bubbles are formed through Galacto-centric outflow. Cosmic rays (CR) both diffusing and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-11 Andrew M. Taylor , Gwenael Giacinti

Determining the location of $\gamma$-ray emission in blazar jets is a challenging task. Pinpointing the exact location of $\gamma$-ray production within a relativistic jet can place strong constraints on our understanding of high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-20 F. Rösch , M. Kadler , E. Ros , M. Gurwell , T. Hovatta , M. Kreter , N. R. MacDonald , A. C. S. Readhead

Fermi/LAT observations of star-forming galaxies in the ~0.1-100GeV range have made possible a first population study. Evidence was found for a correlation between gamma-ray luminosity and tracers of the star formation activity. Studying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Pierrick Martin

The first evidence of the gamma-ray emission from the quiescent Sun was found in the archival EGRET data that was later confirmed by Fermi-LAT observations with high significance. This emission is produced by Galactic cosmic rays (CRs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-29 Elena Orlando , Nicola Giglietto , Igor Moskalenko , Silvia Raino' , Andrew Strong

The microquasar phenomenon is associated with the production of jets by X-ray binaries and, as such, may be associated with the majority of such systems. In this chapter we briefly outline the associations, definite, probable, possible, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rob Fender , Tom Maccarone

The observed spectral bump in cosmic-ray (CR) proton and helium spectra, along with the phase and amplitude evolution of CR dipole anisotropy, provide plausible yet indirect evidence for the presence of a nearby CR source. This study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-25 Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Peng-Fei Yin , Meng-Jie Zhao

We discuss the physical properties of four quasar jets imaged with the Chandra X-ray Observatory in the course of a survey for X-ray emission from radio jets. These objects have sufficient counts to study their spatially resolved…

The gamma-ray emission detected from several microquasars can be produced by relativistic electrons emitting through inverse Compton scattering. In particular, the GeV emission detected from Cygnus X-3, and its orbital phase dependence,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 D. Khangulyan , V. Bosch-Ramon , Y. Uchiyama

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

We have used the VLBA at 15 GHz to image the structure of 132 strong compact AGN and quasars with a resolution better than one milliarcsecond and a dynamic range typically exceeding 1000 to 1. These observations were made as part of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 K. I. Kellermann , R. C. Vermeulen , J. A. Zensus , M. H. Cohen

We investigate the effects of the nearby interstellar medium (ISM) on the locally measured cosmic-ray (CR) spectra. Using the GALPROP code we explore how variations in the local gas and source distributions affect spectral features at low…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-26 Troy A. Porter , Igor V. Moskalenko , Alan C. Cummings , Gudlaugur Johannesson

The contribution of the Source Cosmic Rays (SCRs), confined in Supernova Remnants, to the diffuse high energy \gr emission above 1 GeV from the Galactic disk is studied. \grs produced by the SCRs have a much harder spectrum compared with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 Evgeny G. Berezhko , Heinrich J. Voelk

We present a multi-wavelength study of the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar PKS 1222+216, analyzing its long-term variability of radio data obtained in 2013-2020 from the iMOGABA, MOJAVE, and VLBA-BU-BLAZAR programs, along with $\gamma$-ray data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 Yeji Jo , Sang-Sung Lee

The $\gamma$-ray observation of interstellar gas provides a unique way to probe the cosmic rays (CRs) outside the solar system. In this work, we use an updated version of Fermi-LAT data and recent multi-wavelength tracers of interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-19 Zhao-Qiang Shen , Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

Based on recent models of relativistic jet formation by thermal energy deposition around black hole-torus systems, the relation between the on- and off-axis appearance of short, hard gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is discussed in terms of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. -Th. Janka , M. -A. Aloy , P. A. Mazzali , E. Pian

To investigate the interstellar medium (ISM) and Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) in the solar neighborhood, we analyzed ${\gamma}$-ray data by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) for five nearby molecular cloud regions. Our data includes the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-23 Tsunefumi Mizuno , Katsuhiro Hayashi , Hinako Ochi , Igor V. Moskalenko , Elena Orlando , Andrew W. Strong

The possible association between the microquasar LS 5039 and the EGRET source 3EG J1824-1514 suggests that microquasars could also be sources of high energy gamma-rays. In this paper, we explore, with a detailed numerical model, if this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Bosch-Ramon , J. M. Paredes

The combined measurement of the cosmic ray (CR) energy spectrum and anisotropy in their arrival direction distribution needs the knowledge of the elemental composition of the radiation to discriminate between different origin and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Di Sciascio

In this paper we present our study of the gamma-ray emission from the microquasar SS433. Integrating over 9 years of Fermi-LAT \textsc{pass8} data, we detect SS433 with a significance of ~13$\sigma$ in the 200 to 500 MeV photon energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 Kajwan Rasul , Paula M. Chadwick , Jamie A. Graham , Anthony M. Brown

Propagation of cosmic rays (CRs) from their sources to the observer is described mainly as plain diffusion at high energies, while at lower energies there are other physical processes involved, both in the interstellar space and in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-11 S. Della Torre , M. Gervasi , D. Grandi , G. Johannesson , G. La Vacca , N. Masi , I. V. Moskalenko , E. Orlando , T. A. Porter , L. Quadrani , P. G. Rancoita , D. Rozza