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Many of the recently discovered TeV gamma-ray sources are associated with pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). In fact, they represent the most populous class of Galactic sources at TeV energies. In addition, HESS has also discovered, in a survey of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chulhoon Chang , Alexander Konopelko , Wei Cui

The observational progress in the $\gamma$-ray astronomy in the last few years has led to the discovery of more than a thousand sources at GeV energies and more than a hundred sources at TeV energies. A few different classes of compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-21 W. Bednarek

We present a study of the Galactic Center region as a possible source of both secondary gamma-ray and neutrino fluxes from annihilating dark matter. We have studied the gamma-ray flux observed by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-10 V. Gammaldi , J. A. R. Cembranos , A. de la Cruz-Dombriz , R. A. Lineros , A. L. Maroto

Recently, HESS and other air Cerenkov telescopes have detected a source of TeV gamma-rays coincident with the Galactic center. It is not yet clear whether the gamma-rays are produced via leptonic or hadronic processes, so it is important to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. R. Ballantyne , Fulvio Melia , Siming Liu , Roland M. Crocker

The identification of point sources poses a great challenge for the high energy community. We present a new approach to evaluate the likelihood of a set of sources being a Galactic population based on the simple assumption that galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-15 J. M. Siegal-Gaskins , V. Pavlidou , A. V. Olinto , C. Brown , B. D. Fields

We describe a simple test of the spatial uniformity of an ensemble of discrete events. Given an estimate for the point source luminosity function and an instrumental point spread function (PSF), a robust upper bound on the fractional point…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-12 Tracy R. Slatyer , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is a southern hemisphere array of four Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes observing the sky in the very high energy gamma-ray range (E $>$ 100 GeV). VHE observations are an invaluable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-25 U. Barres de Almeida

The Milky Way hosts astrophysical accelerators capable of producing high-energy cosmic rays. These cosmic rays can interact with the interstellar medium (ISM) across the Galaxy to produce neutrinos and gamma rays (propagation component),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Mohadeseh Ozlati Moghadam , Kathrin Egberts , Rowan Batzofin , Constantin Steppa , Elisa Bernardini

We study the contribution of Galactic sources to the flux of astrophysical neutrinos recently observed by the IceCube Collaboration. We show that in the simplest model of homogeneous and isotropic cosmic ray diffusion in the Milky Way the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-05 Markus Ahlers , Yang Bai , Vernon Barger , Ran Lu

The fraction of the contribution from yet-unresolved gamma-ray sources in the Galactic diffuse gamma rays observed by the Tibet air shower array is an important key to interpreting recent multi-messenger observations. This paper shows a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-11 S. Kato , D. Chen , J. Huang , T. Kawashima , K. Kawata , A. Mizuno , M. Ohnishi , T. Sako , T. K. Sako , M. Takita , Y. Yokoe

Galactic diffuse emission has provided us with evidence for cosmic ray acceleration throughout the Galaxy and the background for searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. However, only the very limited measurements of the diffuse flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-29 Chang Dong Rho

More than a decade ago, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory discovered a diffuse flux of 10 TeV-10 PeV neutrinos from our Universe. This flux of unknown origin most likely emanates from an extragalactic population of neutrino sources, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Kathrine Mørch Groth , Markus Ahlers

In recent years, the number of known sources emitting very- and ultra-high-energy gamma-rays has increased significantly thanks to facilities such as LHAASO and HAWC. Many of the observed sources are still unidentified or poorly constrained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Michela Rigoselli , Sarah Recchia , Alberto Bonollo , Silvia Crestan , Giada Peron , Andrea Giuliani , Sandro Mereghetti

As of early 2009, latest results on Galactic sources (mainly shell-type and plerionic supernova remnants), as observed in the very-high-energy gamma-ray domain, are reviewed. A particular attention is given to those obtained with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-11 Matthieu Renaud

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) has revealed many TeV (10 12 eV) gamma-ray sources along the Galactic Plane and around 30 percent of these sources remain unidentified. The morphology and dynamics of dense gas coincident and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-12 P. de Wilt , G. Rowell , A. J. Walsh , M. Burton , J. Rathborne , Y. Fukui , A. Kawamura , F. Aharonian

The LHAASO Collaboration has recently reported a measurement of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Plane at energies between 10 TeV and 1 PeV. While this emission is brighter than that expected from cosmic-ray interactions in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-18 Ariane Dekker , Ian Holst , Dan Hooper , Giovani Leone , Emily Simon , Huangyu Xiao

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray flux between 0.1 and 1 PeV has recently been measured by the Tibet AS$\gamma$ Collaboration. The flux and spectrum are consistent with the decay of neutral pions from hadronuclear interactions between Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-01 Ke Fang , Kohta Murase

At very high energies (VHE), the emission of $\gamma$ rays is dominated by discrete sources. Due to the limited resolution and sensitivity of current-generation instruments, only a small fraction of the total Galactic population of VHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-19 Constantin Steppa , Kathrin Egberts

Recent observations of binary systems obtained with the H.E.S.S. telescopes are providing crucial information on the physics of relativistic outflows and the engines powering them. We report here on new H.E.S.S. results on HESS J0632+057,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Pol Bordas , Hélène Laffon , Mathieu de Naurois , Stefan Ohm , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Iurii Sushch , Francesca Volpe , Víctor Zabalza

The identification of celestial gamma-ray sources with astronomical objects or object classes has remained the initial and most fundamental key for understanding their physical nature. The observational characteristic of a gamma-ray emitter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Olaf Reimer