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astro-ph.HE2015★ 95 cited

Tidal disruption jets of supermassive black holes as hidden sources of cosmic rays: explaining the IceCube TeV-PeV neutrinos

Xiang-Yu Wang, Ruo-Yu Liu

Cosmic ray interactions that produce high-energy neutrinos also inevitably generate high-energy gamma rays, which finally contribute to the diffuse high-energy gamma-ray background…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 39 cited

A closer view of the IGR J11014-6103 outflows

L. Pavan, G. Pühlhofer, P. Bordas +8

The complex X-ray system IGR J11014-6103 (a.k.a. the Lighthouse nebula) is composed of a bow-shock pulsar wind nebula (PWN) as well as large-scale jet-like features, all launched b…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 48 cited

Turbulent Reconnection in Relativistic Plasmas And Effects of Compressibility

Makoto Takamoto, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Alexandre Lazarian

We report turbulence effects on magnetic reconnection in relativistic plasmas using 3-dimensional relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulations. We found reconnection rat…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 14 cited

The high-energy gamma-ray detection of G73.9+0.9, a supernova remnant interacting with a molecular cloud

Andrzej A. Zdziarski, Denys Malyshev, Emma de Ona Wilhelmi +6

We have analysed the Fermi LAT data on the SNR G73.9+0.9. We have confirmed a previous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from this source at a high significance of .…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 9 cited

Thermal synchrotron radiation from RRMHD simulations of the double tearing mode reconnection - Application to the Crab flares

Makoto Takamoto, J. Pétri, H. Baty

We study the magneto-hydrodynamic tearing instability occurring in a double current sheet configuration when a guide field is present. This is investigated by means of resistive re…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 1 cited

Spectral characteristics of Mrk 501 during the 2012 and 2014 flaring states

Gabriele Cologna, Nachiketa Chakraborty, Mahmoud Mohamed +6

Observations at Very High Energies (VHE, E > 100 GeV) of the BL Lac object Mrk 501 taken with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) in four distinct periods between 2004 a…

astro-ph.HE2015

Simulating Cherenkov Telescope Array observation of RX J1713.7-3946

T. Nakamori, H. Katagiri, H. Sano +29

We perform simulations of Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observations of a young supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946. This target is not only one of the brightest sources ever disco…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 306 cited

2FHL: The Second Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources

LAT Collaboration

We present a catalog of sources detected above 50 GeV by the {\it Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) in 80 months of data. The newly delivered Pass 8 event-level analysis allows the…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 118 cited

Search for gamma-ray emission from the Coma Cluster with six years of Fermi-LAT data

LAT Collaboration, Y. Rephaeli

We present results from γ-ray observations of the Coma cluster incorporating 6 years of Fermi-LAT data and the newly released {\emph{Pass 8}} event-level analysis. Our analysis of…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 36 cited

Unified model for cosmic rays above eV and the diffuse gamma-ray and neutrino backgrounds

G. Giacinti, M. Kachelriess, O. Kalashev +2

We investigate how the extragalactic proton component derived within the "escape model" can be explained by astrophysical sources. We consider as possible cosmic ray (CR) sources n…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 9 cited

Re-examination of the Expected gamma-ray emission of supernova remnant SN 1987A

E. G. Berezhko, L. T. Ksenofontov, H. J. Voelk

A nonlinear kinetic theory, combining cosmic-ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) with their gas dynamics, is used to re-examine the nonthermal properties of the remn…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 35 cited

Rapid cosmic-ray acceleration at perpendicular shocks in supernova remnants

Makoto Takamoto, John G. Kirk

Perpendicular shocks are shown to be rapid particle accelerators that perform optimally when the ratio of the shock speed to the particle speed roughly equals the ratio…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 36 cited

On transition of propagation of relativistic particles from the ballistic to the diffusion regime

A. Y. Prosekin, S. R. Kelner, F. A. Aharonian

A stationary distribution function that describes the entire processes of propagation of relativistic particles, including the transition between the ballistic and diffusion regime…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 81 cited

Energy and Flux Measurements of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays Observed During the First ANITA Flight

H. Schoorlemmer, K. Belov, A. Romero-Wolf +55

The first flight of the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment recorded 16 radio signals that were emitted by cosmic-ray induced air showers. For 14 of these even…

astro-ph.HE2015

Prospect for Future MeV Gamma-ray Active Galactic Nuclei Population Studies

Yoshiyuki Inoue, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Hirokazu Odaka +5

While the X-ray, GeV gamma-ray, and TeV gamma-ray skies have been extensively studied, the MeV gamma-ray sky is not well investigated after the Imaging Compton Telescope (COMPTEL)…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 185 cited

Dark matter annihilation and decay in dwarf spheroidal galaxies: The classical and ultrafaint dSphs

V. Bonnivard, C. Combet, M. Daniel +8

Dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies are prime targets for present and future gamma-ray telescopes hunting for indirect signals of particle dark matter. The interpretation of the data…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 37 cited

Discovery of variable VHE gamma-ray emission from the binary system 1FGL J1018.6-5856

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +230

Re-observations with the H.E.S.S. telescope array of the very-high-energy (VHE) source HESS J1018-589 A coincident with the Fermi-LAT -ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856 have resulted…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 50 cited

Constraints on an Annihilation Signal from a Core of Constant Dark Matter Density around the Milky Way Center with H.E.S.S

HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +223

An annihilation signal of dark matter is searched for from the central region of the Milky Way. Data acquired in dedicated ON/OFF observations of the Galactic center region with H.…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 25 cited

On the origin of γ-ray emission in η Carina

S. Ohm, V. Zabalza, J. A. Hinton +1

η Car is the only colliding-wind binary for which high-energy γ rays are detected. Although the physical conditions in the shock region change on timescales of hours to days, the v…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 12 cited

Gamma-ray emission from young supernova remnants: hadronic or leptonic?

S. Gabici, F. A. Aharonian

The debate on the nature of the gamma-ray emission from young supernova remnants is still open. Ascribing such emission to hadronic rather than leptonic processes would provide an…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 15 cited

High Energy Polarization of Blazars : Detection Prospects

Nachiketa Chakraborty, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Brian Fields

Emission from blazar jets in the ultraviolet, optical, and infrared is polarized. If these low-energy photons were inverse-Compton scattered, the upscattered high-energy photons re…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 70 cited

The 2012 flare of PG 1553+113 seen with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT

A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +224

Very high energy (VHE, 100 GeV) -ray flaring activity of the high-frequency peaked BL Lac object \pg\ has been detected by the \hess\ telescopes. The flux of the source incr…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 33 cited

Synchro-curvature radiation of charged particles in the strong curved magnetic fields

S. R. Kelner, A. Yu. Prosekin, F. A. Aharonian

It is generally believed that the radiation of relativistic particles in a curved magnetic field proceeds in either the synchrotron or the curvature radiation modes. In this paper…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 7 cited

Exploring the potential X-ray counterpart of the puzzling TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1507-622 with new Suzaku observations

P. Eger, W. F. Domainko, J. Hahn

The unidentified VHE (E>100 GeV) gamma-ray source HESS J1507-622 seems to not fit into standard models for sources related to young supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, or youn…