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We show that the current extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) measurement below 100 GeV sets an upper limit on EGB itself at very high energy (VHE) above 100 GeV. The limit is conservative for the electromagnetic cascade emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Kunihito Ioka

The energy loss rate of a magnetized electron gas emitting axions a due to the process $e^- \to e^- +a$ is derived for arbitrary magnetic field strength B. Requiring that for a strongly magnetized neutron star the axion luminosity is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Kachelriess , C. Wilke , G. Wunner

To determine the properties of the Faraday screen and the magnetic field near the central region of the Galaxy, we measured the Faraday rotation measure (RM) towards 60 background extragalactic source components through the -6 deg < l <6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Subhashis Roy , A. Pramesh Rao , Ravi Subrahmanyan

The joint analysis of the Dispersion and Faraday Rotation Measure from distant, polarised Fast Radio Bursts may be used to put constraints on the origin and distribution of extragalactic magnetic fields on cosmological scales. While the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-24 F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , P. M. Hinz , D. Wittor , N. Locatelli , C. Gheller

We discuss the possibility of observing ultra high energy cosmic ray sources inhigh energy gamma rays. Protons propagating away from their accelerators produce secondary electrons during interactions with cosmic microwave background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefano Gabici , Felix A. Aharonian

Measuring the properties of extragalactic magnetic fields through the effect of Faraday rotation provides a means to understand the origin and evolution of cosmic magnetism. Here we use data from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) to…

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

We search for magnetic fields outside galaxies and galaxy clusters by investigating redshift evolution of Faraday rotation measures (RM) of extragalactic radio sources. Our analysis reveals a strong evidence for the redshift dependence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-08 A. Neronov , D. Semikoz , M. Banafsheh

We derive an upper limit of $B_0<3.4\times 10^{-9}(\Omega_0h_{50}^2)^{1/2}$ Gauss on the present strength of any primordial homogeneous magnetic field. The microwave background anisotropy created by cosmological magnetic fields is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 John D. Barrow , Pedro G. Ferreira , Joseph Silk

The amplitude of the magnetic field near the Galactic Centre has been uncertain by two orders of magnitude for several decades. On a scale of approximately 100 pc fields of approximately 1000 microG have been reported, implying a magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-11 Roland M. Crocker , David Jones , Fulvio Melia , Jürgen Ott , Raymond J. Protheroe

Very high energy photons from cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are expected to interact with extragalactic background light (EBL) and produce electron-positron pairs when they propagate through intergalactic medium (IGM). These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Ze-Rui Wang , Shao-Qiang Xi , Ruo-Yu Liu , Rui Xue , Xiang-Yu Wang

We summarise the results found following a study of the effects that Galactic magnetic fields can have on the propagation of cosmic rays from local extragalactic sources. This study focuses on the coherent structures in the Jansson-Farrar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-08 Andrew M. Taylor , A. M. Hillas

Cosmic-ray scatterings on the cosmic neutrino background induce a flux of gamma-rays and X-rays from boosted meson decays and charged lepton processes. Here we present the first estimate of this flux and its cumulative cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-25 Gonzalo Herrera , Abraham Loeb

We present the results of a study that simulates trajectories of ultra-high energy cosmic rays from Centaurus A to Earth, for particle rigidities from $E/Z = 2$ EV to 100 EV, i.e., covering the possibility of primary particles as heavy as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-21 Azadeh Keivani , Glennys R. Farrar , Michael Sutherland

We report a measurement of intergalactic magnetic fields using combined data from Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes and Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, based on the spectral data alone. If blazars are assumed to produce both gamma rays and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-03 Warren Essey , Shin'ichiro Ando , Alexander Kusenko

We investigate the magnetic field in an intermediate-velocity filament for which the H$\alpha$ intensity in the WHAM survey correlates with excess Faraday rotation of extragalactic radio sources over the length of the filament from b ~ 20…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Jeroen M. Stil , Athena Hryhoriw

Cosmic ray protons generate gamma-rays, neutrinos, and secondary electrons and positrons (e+/-) through pion-producing collisions with gas atoms. Any synchrotron or Inverse Compton (IC) radiation from secondary e+/- is therefore accompanied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Brian C. Lacki

A cosmological origin of the magnetic fields in large scale structures of the Universe would require a non-negligible magnetic field in cosmic voids, which, however, remains undetected. Gamma-ray emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) offers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Lea Burmeister , Paolo Da Vela , Francesco Longo , Guillem Marti-Devesa , Manuel Meyer , Francesco Saturni , Antonio Stamerra , Peter Veres

Using modern high-resolution observations of extragalactic compact radio sources we obtain an estimate of the upper bound on a photon electric charge at the level $e_{\gamma} \lesssim 3 \cdot 10^{-33}$ of elementary charge (assuming the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-12 V. V. Kobychev , S. B. Popov

We present a study of the Milky Way disk and halo magnetic field, determined from observations of Faraday rotation measure (RM) towards 641 polarized extragalactic radio sources in the Galactic longitude range 100-117 degs, within 30 degs…