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The field of TeV gamma-ray astronomy is reviewed with emphasis on its relation to the origin of cosmic rays. The discovery of TeV photons from supernova remnants and active galaxies has provided the first direct observational link between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Krennrich

Calculations of the expected TeV $\gamma$-ray emission, produced by accelerated cosmic rays (CRs) in nuclear collisions, from supernova remnants evolving in a uniform interstellar medium (ISM) are presented. The aim is to study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Evgeny G. Berezhko , Heinrich J. Voelk

GeV and TeV emission from the forward shocks of supernova remnants (SNRs) indicates that they are capable particle accelerators, making them promising sources of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs). However, it remains uncertain whether this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-23 N. Corso , R. Diesing , D. Caprioli

The inverse Compton scattering of ultrarelativistic electrons accelerated at the pulsar wind termination shock is believed to be responsible for TeV gamma-ray signal recently reported from the binary system PSR B1259-63/SS2883. While this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitry Khangulyan , Slavomir Hnatic , Felix Aharonian , Sergey Bogovalov

A nonlinear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants is employed to investigate the properties of the remnant SN 1987A. It is shown that a large downstream magnetic field ~10 mG is required to fit the existing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. G. Berezhko , L. T. Ksenofontov

We investigate hypernova (hyper-energetic supernova) and gamma-ray burst (GRB) remnants in our Galaxy as TeV gamma-ray sources, particularly in the role of potential TeV unidentified sources, which have no clear counterpart at other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 Kunihito Ioka , Peter Meszaros

It is thought that Galactic cosmic ray (CR) nuclei are gradually accelerated to high energies (up to ~300 TeV/nucleon, where 1TeV=10^12eV) in the expanding shock-waves connected with the remnants of powerful supernova explosions. However,…

The shell type SNR RXJ1713.7-3946 is a new SNR discovered by the ROSAT all sky survey. Recently, strong non-thermal X-ray emission from the northwest part of the remnant was detected by the ASCA satellite. This synchrotron X-ray emission…

IceCube has measured a diffuse astrophysical flux of TeV-PeV neutrinos. The most plausible sources are unique high energy cosmic ray accelerators like hypernova remnants (HNRs) and remnants from gamma ray bursts in star-burst galaxies,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-19 Sovan Chakraborty , Ignacio Izaguirre

We analyze 10 years of Fermi-LAT data towards the SS433/W50 region. With the latest source catalog and diffuse background models, the gamma-ray excess from SS433/W50 is detected with a significance of 6{\sigma} in the photon energy range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Xiao-Na Sun , Rui-Zhi Yang , Bing Liu , Shao-Qiang Xi , Xiang-Yu Wang

We reanalyze 15 years of data recorded by the Fermi Large Area Telescope in a region around supernova remnant (SNR) $\gamma$-Cygni from 100 MeV to 1 TeV, and find that the spectra of two extended sources associated with the southeast radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Yuan Li , Gwenael Giacinti , Siming Liu , Yi Xing

In this paper, we present high-energy neutrino spectra from 21 Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs), derived from gamma-ray measurements in the GeV-TeV range. We find that only the strongest sources, i.e. G40.5-0.5 in the north and Vela…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Matthias Mandelartz , Julia Becker Tjus

We consider a possibility of identification of sources of cosmic rays (CR) of the energy above 1 TeV via observation of degree-scale extended gamma-ray emission which traces the locations of recent sources in the Galaxy. Such emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz

Particle acceleration in the dynamically evolving environment of Supernova Remnants is discussed in the framework of a genuinely time-dependent nonlinear theory, assuming spherical symmetry. As a consequence the dependence of injection on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. J. Voelk

We propose a method to synthesize the inverse Compton (IC) gamma-ray image of a supernova remnant starting from the radio (or hard X-ray) map and using results of the spatially resolved X-ray spectral analysis. The method is successfully…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 O. Petruk , F. Bocchino , M. Miceli , G. Dubner , G. Castelletti , S. Orlando , D. Iakubovskyi , I. Telezhinsky

We study the emission from an old supernova remnant (SNR) with an age of around 10^5 yrs and that from a giant molecular cloud (GMC) encountered by the SNR. When the SNR age is around 10^5 yrs, proton acceleration is efficient enough to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ryo Yamazaki , Kazunori Kohri , Aya Bamba , Tatsuo Yoshida , Toru Tsuribe , Fumio Takahara

We report the detection of TeV gamma-rays from the shell-type supernova remnant RX J0852.0-4622 with data of 3.2 h of live time recorded with H.E.S.S. in February 2004. An excess of (700 +/- 60) events from the whole remnant with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 H. E. S. S. collaboration , : , F. Aharonian

We report the discovery of an unidentified, extended source of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission, VER J2019+407, within the radio shell of the supernova remnant SNR G78.2+2.1, using 21.4 hours of data taken by the VERITAS gamma-ray…

We have obtained evidence of gamma-ray emission above 1 TeV from PSR1706-44, using a ground-based telescope of the atmospheric \v{C}erenkov imaging type located near Woomera, South Australia. This object, a $\gamma$-ray source discovered by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-04 T. Kifune , CANGAROO Collaboration

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