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The advent of multi-messenger astronomy has provided abundant information for understanding the acceleration and particle-production mechanisms of cosmic rays. In this work, we present a unified study of cosmic gamma-ray and neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Jiangyuan Qian , Jintao Wu , Jianhong Ruan

We employ the Monte Carlo particle collision code DPMJET3.04 to determine the multiplicity spectra of various secondary particles (in addition to $\pi^0$'s) with $\gamma$'s as the final decay state, that are produced in cosmic-ray ($p$'s…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-13 C. -Y. Huang , M. Pohl , S. -E. Park , C. D. Daniels

In this work we study the individual contribution to diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission from the secondary products in hadronic interactions generated by cosmic rays (CRs), in addition to the contribution of $\pi^0$ decay via the decay mode…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 C. -Y. Huang , S. -E. Park , M. Pohl , C. D. Daniels

The study of secondary particles produced by the cosmic-ray interaction in the Earth's atmosphere is very crucial as these particles mainly constitute the background counts produced in the high-energy detectors at balloon and satellite…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-17 Ritabrata Sarkar , Abhijit Roy , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

The center of the our Galaxy is a region where very energetic phenomena take place. In particular powerful cosmic ray sources can be located in that region. The cosmic rays accelerated in these sources may interact with ambient protons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 A. D. Supanitsky

The stellar winds of the massive stars in high-mass microquasars are thought to be inhomogeneous. The interaction of these inhomogeneities, or clumps, with the jets of these objects may be a major factor in gamma-ray production. Our goal is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 V. M. de la Cita , S. del Palacio , V. Bosch-Ramon , X. Paredes-Fortuny , G. E. Romero , D. Khangulyan

Aims. We use Fermi and Planck data to calculate the cross correlation between gamma ray signal and gas distribution in different scales in giant molecular clouds (GMC). Then we investigate the cosmic rays (CRs) penetration in GMCs with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Rui-zhi Yang

Cold interstellar gas clouds provide an exciting new method to discover dark matter. Their immense size makes them uniquely sensitive to interactions from the heaviest, most rarefied dark matter models. Using gas cloud observations, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Amit Bhoonah , Joseph Bramante , Sarah Schon , Ningqiang Song

Observations of molecular clouds in the gamma ray domain provide us with a tool to study the distribution of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. This is because cosmic rays can penetrate molecular clouds, undergo hadronic interactions in the dense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 Stefano Gabici

Three different methods of measuring cosmology with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been proposed since a relation between the $\gamma$-ray energy $E_{\gamma} $ of a GRB jet and the peak energy $E_p$ of the $\nu F_{\nu}$ spectrum in the burst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Xu , Z. G. Dai , E. W. Liang

We use the measurement of gamma-ray burst (GRB) distances to constrain dark energy cosmological model parameters. We employ two methods for analyzing GRB data - fitting luminosity relation of GRBs in each cosmology and using distance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Lado Samushia , Bharat Ratra

If dark matter decays into electrons and positrons, it can affect Galactic radio emissions and the local cosmic ray fluxes. We propose a new, more general analysis of constraints on dark matter. The constraints can be obtained for any…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-28 Le Zhang , Javier Redondo , Guenter Sigl

Several cosmic ray experiments have measured excesses in electrons and positrons, relative to standard backgrounds, for energies from ~ 10 GeV - 1 TeV. These excesses could be due to new astrophysical sources, but an explanation in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Spencer Chang , Lisa Goodenough

Galactic cosmic rays are the high-energy particles that stream into our solar system from distant corners of our Galaxy and some low energy particles are from the Sun which are associated with solar flares. The Earth atmosphere serves as an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-24 Olesya Sarajlic , Semir Sarajlic , Ting-Cun Wei , Xiaochun He

Molecular clouds are expected to emit non-thermal radiation due to cosmic ray interactions in the dense magnetized gas. Such emission is amplified if a cloud is located close to an accelerator of cosmic rays and if energetic particles can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Stefano Gabici , Felix A. Aharonian , Sabrina Casanova

Gamma-rays can be produced by the interaction of a relativistic jet and the matter of the stellar wind in the subclass of massive X-ray binaries known as "microquasars". The relativistic jet is ejected from the surroundings of the compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-14 G. E. Romero , S. P. Owocki , A. T. Araudo , R. Townsend , P. Benaglia

Entering a new era of high-energy gamma-ray experiments, there is an exciting quest for the first detection of gamma-ray emission from clusters of galaxies. To complement these observational efforts, we use high-resolution simulations of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Anders Pinzke , Christoph Pfrommer

We study the properties of X-ray galaxy clusters in four cold dark matter models with different baryon fraction $\Omega_{BM}$ ranging from 5 to 20 per cent. By using an original three-dimensional hydrodynamic code based on the piecewise…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Claudio Gheller , Ornella Pantano , Lauro Moscardini

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) remains one of the least constrained components of galaxies and as such has significant potential for advancing galaxy formation theories. In this work, we vary the extragalactic ultraviolet background for a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 Lauren Corlies , David Schiminovich

Recent observations by the H.E.S.S. collaboration of the Galactic Centre region have revealed what appears to be gamma-ray emission from the decay of pions produced by interactions of recently accelerated cosmic rays with local molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stavros Dimitrakoudis , Apostolos Mastichiadis , Athanasios Geranios