The HESS Galactic plane survey

H Abdalla, A Abramowski, F Aharonian… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
We present the results of the most comprehensive survey of the Galactic plane in very high-
energy (VHE) γ-rays, including a public release of Galactic sky maps, a catalog of VHE …

The remnant of supernova 1987A

R McCray, C Fransson - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Although it has faded by a factor of∼ 107, SN 1987A is still bright enough to be observed in
almost every band of the electromagnetic spectrum. Today, the bolometric luminosity of the …

Gamma rays as probes of cosmic-ray propagation and interactions in galaxies

L Tibaldo, D Gaggero, P Martin - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
Continuum gamma-ray emission produced by interactions of cosmic rays with interstellar
matter and radiation fields is a probe of non-thermal particle populations in galaxies. After …

Massive stars as major factories of Galactic cosmic rays

F Aharonian, R Yang, E de Oña Wilhelmi - Nature astronomy, 2019 - nature.com
The identification of the main contributors to the locally observed fluxes of cosmic rays is a
prime objective in the resolution of the long-standing enigma of the source of cosmic rays …

Particle acceleration in winds of star clusters

G Morlino, P Blasi, E Peretti… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The origin of cosmic rays in our Galaxy remains a subject of active debate. While supernova
remnant (SNR) shocks are often invoked as the sites of acceleration, it is now widely …

The HESS Galactic plane survey

H Collaboration - arxiv preprint arxiv:1804.02432, 2018 - arxiv.org
We present the results of the most comprehensive survey of the Galactic plane in very high-
energy (VHE) gamma-rays, including a public release of Galactic sky maps, a catalog of …

MAGIC discovery of very high energy emission from the FSRQ PKS 1222+ 21

J Aleksić, LA Antonelli, P Antoranz… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Very high energy (VHE) γ-ray emission from the flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) PKS
1222+ 21 (4C 21.35, z= 0.432) was detected with the MAGIC Cherenkov telescopes during …

A deep spectromorphological study of the γ-ray emission surrounding the young massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1

F Aharonian, H Ashkar, M Backes, VB Martins… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Young massive stellar clusters are extreme environments and potentially provide
the means for efficient particle acceleration. Indeed, they are increasingly considered as …

Cosmic ray production in superbubbles

T Vieu, S Gabici, V Tatischeff… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We compute the production of cosmic rays (CRs) in the dynamical superbubble (SB)
produced by a cluster of massive stars. Stellar winds, supernova remnants, and turbulence …

The cosmological impact of luminous TeV blazars. I. Implications of plasma instabilities for the intergalactic magnetic field and extragalactic gamma-ray background

AE Broderick, P Chang, C Pfrommer - The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT Inverse Compton cascades (ICCs) initiated by energetic gamma rays (E≳ 100
GeV) enhance the GeV emission from bright, extragalactic TeV sources. The absence of this …