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The detection by the HESS atmospheric Cherenkov telescope of fifteen new sources from the Galactic plane makes it possible to estimate the contribution of unresolved point sources like those detected by HESS to the diffuse Galactic emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabrina Casanova , Brenda L. Dingus

The diffuse Galactic $\gamma$-ray emission (DGE) provides a valuable probe for investigating the cosmic ray propagation and interactions within our Galactic environment. Recent observations have demonstrated systematic excesses of DGE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Jiayin He , Houdun Zeng , Yi Zhang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan

Population synthesis is used to study the contribution from undetected sources to the Galactic ridge emission measured by EGRET. Synthesized source counts are compared with the 3rd EGRET catalogue at low and high latitudes. For pulsar-like…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. W. Strong

The diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Milky Way serves as a crucial probe for understanding the propagation and interactions of cosmic rays within our galaxy. The Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 10 TeV and 1 PeV has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-07 Jiayin He , Houdun Zeng , Yi Zhang , Qiang Yuan , Rui Zhang , Jun Li

We estimate the contribution of Galactic pulsars, both ordinary and millisecond pulsars (MSPs), to the high-energy (>100 MeV) gamma-ray background. We pay particular attention to the high-latitude part of the background that could be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-15 C. -A. Faucher-Giguere , Abraham Loeb

Diffuse TeV emission has been observed by H.E.S.S. in the Galactic Center region, in addition to the GeV gamma rays observed by Fermi. We propose that a population of unresolved millisecond pulsars located around the Galactic Center,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Claire Guépin , Lucia Rinchiuso , Kumiko Kotera , Emmanuel Moulin , Tanguy Pierog , Joseph Silk

We investigate whether gamma-ray pulsars viewed at a large angle to the neutron star magnetic pole could contribute to the new population of galactic unidentified EGRET sources associated with the Gould Belt. The faint, soft nature of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alice K. Harding , Bing Zhang

We present a study of the compatibility of some current models of the diffuse Galactic continuum gamma rays with EGRET data. A set of regions sampling the whole sky is chosen to provide a comprehensive range of tests. The range of EGRET…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

The origin of the diffuse extragalactic, high-energy gamma-ray background (EGRB) filling the Universe remains unknown. The spectrum of this extragalactic radiation, as measured by the EGRET on-board CGRO, is well-fit by a power law across…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Caleb A. Scharf , Reshmi Mukherjee

Using data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, a spatially extended component of gamma rays has been identified from the direction of the Galactic Center, peaking at energies of ~2-3 GeV. More recently, it has been shown that this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-30 Dan Hooper , Ilias Cholis , Tim Linden , Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins , Tracy Slatyer

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray background, as observed with EGRET on CGRO, exceeds the model predictions significantly above 1 GeV. This is particularly true for the inner Galaxy. We shall discuss here the contribution of the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Heinz Voelk

Gamma-ray observations have shown pulsars to be efficient converters of rotational energy into GeV photons and it is of wide-ranging interest to determine their contribution to the gamma-ray background. We arrive at flux predictions from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-26 Ryan M. O'Leary , Matthew D. Kistler , Matthew Kerr , Jason Dexter

Millisecond Pulsars are second most abundant source population discovered by the Fermi-LAT. They might contribute non-negligibly to the diffuse emission measured at high latitudes by Fermi-LAT, the IDGRB. Gamma-ray sources also contribute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-05 F. Calore , M. Di Mauro , F. Donato

Published EGRET spectra from blazars extend only to 10 GeV, yet EGRET has detected approximately 2000 gamma-rays above 10 GeV of which about half are at high Galactic latitude. We report a search of these high-energy gamma-rays for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Brenda L. Dingus , David L. Bertsch

Here is reviewed our current understanding of Galactic and extragalactic diffuse gamma-ray emission. The spectrum of the extragalactic gamma-ray background above 30 MeV can be well described by a power law with photon index s=2.1. In the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl

Using a likelihood analysis (updated since McLaughlin & Cordes 2000) and EGRET detections, upper limits and diffuse background measurements, we find a best-fit luminosity law for the gamma-ray pulsar population. We find that roughly 30 of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. McLaughlin , J. M. Cordes

One of the possible sources of hadronic cosmic rays (CRs) are newborn pulsars. If this is indeed the case, they should feature diffusive gamma-ray halos produced by interactions of CRs with interstellar gas. In this paper we try to identify…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-14 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Maxim S. Pshirkov , Grigory I. Rubtsov

We revisit the association of unidentified Galactic plane EGRET sources with tracers of recent massive star formation and death. Up-to-date catalogs of OB associations, SNRs, young pulsars, HII regions and young open clusters were used in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 I. -A. Yadigaroglu , Roger W. Romani

Pulsed emission from gamma-ray pulsars originates inside the magnetosphere, from radiation by charged particles accelerated near the magnetic poles or in the outer gaps. In polar cap models, the high energy spectrum is cut off by magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alice K. Harding

The Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission is conventionally modeled as the product of cosmic-ray interactions with the interstellar medium. However, the cumulative contribution of stellar atmospheres acting as hadronic interaction targets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Yanbo Wang , Zhenglong Wang , Rui Zhang , Yi Zhang