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Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission is produced by the interaction of high-energy cosmic rays propagating through the Milky Way with interstellar gas and radiation fields. Its measurement can provide crucial insights into the acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 Georg Schwefer

Population studies of unidentified EGRET sources suggest that there exist at least three different populations of galactic gamma-ray sources. One of these populations is formed by young objects distributed along the galactic plane with a…

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

EGRET (20 MeV to 30 GeV) on board the Compton GRO has observed high-energy emission from about 40-50 Active Galactic Nuclei. Theoretical models of this emission based on the upscattering of thermal disk photons by cooling, relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 Marco Fatuzzo , Fulvio Melia

Significant advances have been made in the understanding of the diffuse Galactic hard X-ray continuum emission using data from the INTEGRAL observatory. The diffuse hard power-law component seen with the INTEGRAL/SPI spectrometer has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Laurent Bouchet , Andrew W. Strong , Troy A. Porter , Igor V. Moskalenko , Elisabeth Jourdain , Jean-Pierre Roques

We report absolutely calibrated measurements of diffuse radio emission between 90 and 190 MHz from the Experiment to Detect the Global EoR Signature (EDGES). EDGES employs a wide beam zenith-pointing dipole antenna centred on a declination…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-25 Thomas. J. Mozdzen , Judd. D. Bowman , Raul. A. Monsalve , Alan. E. E. Rogers

Context. A considerable fraction of the gamma-ray sources discovered with the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) remain unidentified. The EGRET sources that have been properly identified are either pulsars or variable sources…

(Abridged) We present a new model of the blazar gamma-ray luminosity function (GLF) and the spectrum of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB), which is consistent with the observed distributions of EGRET blazars. The unified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Tomonori Totani

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 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

Population studies of EGRET gamma-ray sources indicate that there is a distinctive population of bright sources at low galactic latitudes. The sources have a distribution consistent with that of young galactic objects, with a concentration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Valenti Bosch-Ramon , Gustavo E. Romero , Josep M. Paredes

Cosmic Rays (CRs) interact with the diffuse gas, radiation, and magnetic fields in the interstellar medium (ISM) to produce electromagnetic emissions that are a significant component of the all-sky flux across a broad wavelength range. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 P. D. Marinos , G. P. Rowell , T. A. Porter , G. Jóhannesson

Recently, the Large High-Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) collaboration has obtained a measurement of the gamma-ray diffuse emission in the ultra-high energy range, $10-10^3$ TeV after masking the contribution of known sources. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Vittoria Vecchiotti , Giada Peron , Elena Amato , Stefano Menchiari , Giovanni Morlino , Giulia Pagliaroli , Francesco L. Villante

Most of the diffuse Galactic GeV gamma-ray emission is produced via collisions of cosmic ray (CR) protons with ISM protons. As such the observed spectra of the gamma-rays and the CRs should be strongly linked. Recent observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 Lara Nava , David Benyamin , Tsvi Piran , Nir J. Shaviv

The high energy gamma ray sources provided by experiment EGRET on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory are examined, testing Project GRAND's ability to detect primary gamma rays by means of studying secondary muons. There is ~1.5% chance that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Carpenter , S. Desch , T. F. Lin , J. Poirier , A. Roesch

The Tibet ASgamma experiment just reported their measurement of sub-PeV diffuse gamma ray emission from the Galactic disk, with the highest energy up to 957 TeV. These gamma-rays are most likely the hadronic origin by cosmic ray interaction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-09 Bing-Qiang Qiao , Wei Liu , Meng-Jie Zhao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Yi-Qing Guo

We present the Bayesian Global Sky Model (B-GSM), a new absolutely calibrated model of the diffuse Galactic foreground at frequencies below 408 MHz. We assemble a dataset of publicly available diffuse emission maps at frequencies between 45…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 George Carter , Will Handley , Mark Ashdown , Nima Razavi-Ghods

The diffuse galactic gamma-ray spectrum measured by the EGRET experiment \citep{Hunter:1997} are interpreted within a scenario in which cosmic rays (CRs) are injected by three different kind of sources, (i) supernovae (SN) which explode…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabrina Casanova , Peter L. Biermann , Ralph Engel , Athina Meli , Ralf Ulrich

We report the direct detection of gamma-ray emission from the Galactic center in the 150-600 keV band using the electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC), which has a wide field of view of 3.1 sr. This represents the first application of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Tomonori Ikeda , Toru Tanimori , Atsushi Takada , Taito Takemura , Kei Yoshikawa , Yuta Nakamura , Ken Onozaka , Mitsuru Abe , Yoshitaka Mizumura

Reliable identification of the origin of the high-energy non-thermal emission from the Galactic Center (GC) is not achievable without adequate consideration of the ambient conditions such as the magnetic field configuration or gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-19 Mehmet Guenduez , Julia Becker Tjus , Katia Ferrière , Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar , Dominik J. Bomans

We provide our estimates of the intensity of the gamma-ray emission with an energy near 0.1 TeV generated in inrergalactic space in the interactions of cosmic rays with background emissions. We assume that the cosmic ray sources are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 A. V. Uryson