Gamma-ray haloes around pulsars as the key to understanding cosmic-ray transport in the Galaxy

R López-Coto, E de Oña Wilhelmi, F Aharonian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Pulsars are factories of relativistic electrons and positrons that propagate away from the
pulsar, eventually permeating our Galaxy. The acceleration and propagation of these cosmic …

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 …

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 …

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to a dark matter signal from the Galactic centre

A Acharyya, R Adam, C Adams, I Agudo… - … of cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We provide an updated assessment of the power of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)
to search for thermally produced dark matter at the TeV scale, via the associated gamma-ray …

Extended gamma-ray sources around pulsars constrain the origin of the positron flux at Earth

AU Abeysekara, A Albert, R Alfaro, C Alvarez… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The unexpectedly high flux of cosmic-ray positrons detected at Earth may originate from
nearby astrophysical sources, dark matter, or unknown processes of cosmic-ray secondary …

Inference of the local interstellar spectra of cosmic-ray nuclei Z≤ 28 with the GalProp–HelMod framework

MJ Boschini, S Della Torre, M Gervasi… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Composition and spectra of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) are vital for studies of high-energy
processes in a variety of environments and on different scales, for interpretation of γ-ray and …

HESS observations of RX J1713. 7− 3946 with improved angular and spectral resolution: Evidence for gamma-ray emission extending beyond the X-ray emitting shell

H Abdalla, A Abramowski, F Aharonian… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Supernova remnants exhibit shock fronts (shells) that can accelerate charged particles up to
very high energies. In the past decade, measurements of a handful of shell-type supernova …

Standardized and reproducible measurement of decision-making in mice

International Brain Laboratory, V Aguillon-Rodriguez… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Progress in science requires standardized assays whose results can be readily shared,
compared, and reproduced across laboratories. Reproducibility, however, has been a …

Characterising the VHE diffuse emission in the central 200 parsecs of our Galaxy with HESS

H Abdalla, A Abramowski, F Aharonian… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
The diffuse very high-energy (VHE;> 100 GeV) γ-ray emission observed in the central 200
pc of the Milky Way by HESS was found to follow dense matter distribution in the central …

Particle transport within the pulsar wind nebula HESS J1825–137

H Abdalla, F Aharonian, FA Benkhali… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Context. We present a detailed view of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) HESS J1825–137. We
aim to constrain the mechanisms dominating the particle transport within the nebula …