We propose a method to synthesize the inverse Compton (IC) gamma-ray image of a supernova remnant starting from the radio (or hard X-ray) map and using results of the spatially resolved X-ray spectral analysis. The method is successfully applied to SN 1006. We found that synthesized IC gamma-ray images of SN 1006 show morphology in nice agreement with that reported by the H.E.S.S. collaboration. The good correlation found between the observed very-high energy gamma-ray and X-ray/radio appearance can be considered as an evidence that the gamma-ray emission of SN 1006 observed by H.E.S.S. is leptonic in origin, though the hadronic origin may not be excluded.
In this paper, we consider the impact of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) on the $γ-γ$ opacity of the Universe to VHE-gamma rays, compared to the effect of local under-densities (voids) of the Extragalactic Background Light, and on the Compton scattering process. Both subluminal and superluminal modifications of the photon dispersion relation are considered. In the subluminal case, LIV effects may result in a significant reduction of the $γ-γ$ opacity for photons with energies $\gtrsim 10$ TeV. However, the effect is not expected to be sufficient to explain the apparent spectral hardening of…
A few radio galaxies have been discovered to emit GeV-TeV gamma-ray emission in spite of relatively large viewing angles of their jets. We consider a scenario in which such large angle gamma-ray emission is preferentially produced by isotropically distributed relativistic electrons in the kpc scale jet. These electrons comptonize soft, non-thermal radiation from the inner jet which is beamed due to its relativistic motion. In terms of such a model, we interpret recently discovered TeV gamma-ray emission from the kpc scale jets in Cen~A. Interestingly, due to the geometry of the inverse Compton…
The recent discovery of gravitational waves from GW170817, associated with a short Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) at a distance of $40$Mpc, has demonstrated that short GRBs can occur locally and at a reasonable rate. Furthermore, gravitational waves enable us to detect close by GRBs, even when we are observing at latitudes far from the jet's axis. We consider here Compton echoes, the scattered light from the prompt and afterglow emission. Compton echoes, an as yet undetected counterpart of GRBs, peak in X-rays and maintain a roughly constant flux for hundreds to thousands of years after the burst. Thou…
Cosmic rays interacting with gas and photon fields in the Galaxy produce interstellar gamma-ray emission (IGE), which accounts for almost 50% of the photons detected at gamma-ray energies. Models of this IGE have to be very accurate for interpreting the high-quality observations by present gamma-ray telescopes, such as Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Standard models of IGE, used as reference models for analyses of the Fermi LAT data, show spatial discrepancies with respect to the data, underlining the necessity of more realistic models. The same CR electrons that produce the inverse-Compton …
We present a self-consistent way of modeling synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) effects in gamma-ray burst afterglows, with and without approximated Klein-Nishina suppressed scattering. We provide an analytic approximation of our results, so that it can be incorporated into the afterglow modeling code \texttt{boxfit}, which is currently based on pure synchrotron emission. We discuss the changes in spectral shape and evolution due to SSC effects, and comment on how these changes affect physical parameters derived from broadband modeling. We show that SSC effects can have a profound impact on the sh…
The afterglow emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is believed to originate from a relativistic blast wave driven into the circumburst medium. Although the afterglow emission from radio up to X-ray frequencies is thought to originate from synchrotron radiation emitted by relativistic, non-thermal electrons accelerated by the blast wave, the origin of the emission at high energies (HE; $\gtrsim$~GeV) remains uncertain. The recent detection of sub-TeV emission from GRB~190114C by MAGIC raises further debate on what powers the very high-energy (VHE; $\gtrsim 300$GeV) emission. Here, we explore t…
Although the physical origin of gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission is still controversial, synchrotron radiation from accelerated electrons is a promising mechanism. It is believed that electrons are accelerated continuously by ultra-relativistic shocks or magnetic reconnections. At the same time, these electrons will be cooled via several processes (mainly adiabatic expansion, synchrotron radiation and inverse Compton scattering (ICS)), which regulate the distribution of electrons. An extra high-energy spectrum component is expected to be induced by ICS. However, the gamma-gamma annihilati…
Dark matter (DM) can give observable effects decaying or annihilating with production of electrons or/and photons. Such probability was widely researched for our Galaxy. Here we consider one aspect of similar effect for Andromeda galaxy. We explicitly estimate the energy of the photon of the medium experiencing Inverse Compton (IC) scattering off electron in halo. These photons can be registered by different experiments. Dark matter annihilation or decay could be the source of high energy electrons in halo, though the source could be of other origins too (e.g. running neutron stars). Because o…
Aimed at progress in mega-electron volt (MeV) gamma-ray astronomy, which has not yet been well-explored, Compton telescope missions with a variety of detector concepts have been proposed so far. One of the key techniques for these future missions is an event reconstruction algorithm that is able to determine the scattering orders of multiple Compton scattering events and to identify events in which gamma rays escape from the detectors before they deposit all of their energies. We revisit previous event reconstruction methods and propose a modified algorithm based on a probabilistic method. Fir…
The gamma-ray emission detected from several microquasars can be produced by relativistic electrons emitting through inverse Compton scattering. In particular, the GeV emission detected from Cygnus X-3, and its orbital phase dependence, strongly suggest that the emitting electrons are accelerated in a relativistic jet, and that the optical companion provides the dominant target. Here, we study the effects related to particle transport in the framework of the relativistic jet scenario. We find that even in the most compact binary systems, with parameters similar to Cygnus X-3, particle transpor…
An advanced Compton telescope appears to be the best instrument concept for the next generation gamma-ray space observatory in the MeV range. A first prototype of advanced Compton telescope is being developed to match the constraints of a nano satellite mission, with the scientific objective of measuring gamma-ray burst prompt emission polarization. Our instrumental developments for this project are focusing on the position-sensitive calorimeter module, made of a monolithic inorganic CeBr$_3$ scintillator read by a pixelated photodetector. 3D position reconstruction is obtained by deep-learnin…
The detection of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) X-ray emission line is important for studying the GRB physics and constraining the GRB redshift. Since the line-like feature in the GRB X-ray spectrum was first reported in 1999, several works on line searching have been published over the past two decades. Even though some observations on the X-ray line-like feature were performed, the significance remains controversial to date. In this paper, we utilize the down-Comptonization mechanism and present the time evolution of the Fe K$α$ line emitted near the GRB central engine. The line intensity decreas…
We examine the possible role of turbulence in feeding the emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Turbulence may develop in a GRB jet as the result of hydrodynamic or current-driven instabilities. The jet carries dense radiation and the turbulence cascade can be damped by Compton drag, passing kinetic fluid energy to photons through scattering. We identify two regimes of turbulence dissipation: (1) "Viscous" - the turbulence cascade is Compton damped on a scale $\ell_{\rm damp}$ greater than the photon mean free path $\ell_\star$. Then turbulence energy is passed to photons via bulk Comptonizatio…
Synchrotron radiation from a decelerating blastwave is a widely accepted model of radio to X-ray afterglow emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). GeV gamma-ray emission detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the duration of which extends beyond the prompt gamma-ray emission phase, is also compatible with broad features of afterglow emission. We revisit the synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) emission model from a decelerating blastwave to fit multiwavelength data from three bright GRBs, namely GRB~190114C, GRB~130427A and GRB~090510. We constrain the afterglow model parameters using t…
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense bursts of high-energy photons (prompt emissions) caused by relativistic jets. After the emissions, multi-wavelength afterglows, from radio to very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray, last for more than a few days. In the past three years, the VHE gamma-ray photons from four GRBs (GRBs 180720B, 190114C, 190829A and 201216C) were detected by ground-based Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, such as the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.). One of them, GRB 190829A, had some peculiar featu…
The black hole transient GRS 1716-249 was monitored from the radio to the gamma-ray band during its 2016-2017 outburst. This paper focuses on the Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) obtained in 2017 February-March, when GRS 1716-249 was in a bright hard spectral state. The soft gamma-ray data collected with the INTEGRAL/SPI telescope show the presence of a spectral component which is in excess of the thermal Comptonisation emission. This component is usually interpreted as inverse Compton emission from a tiny fraction of non-thermal electrons in the X-ray corona. We find that hybrid thermal/non…
Discrete treatment of inverse Compton scattering: implications on parameter estimation in gamma-ray astronomy
The School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University（西南交通大学物理科学与技术学院）；Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院高能物理研究所粒子天体物理重点实验室）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Tianfu Cosmic Ray Research Center（天府宇宙线研究中心）
A sensitive survey of the MeV gamma-ray sky is needed to understand important astrophysical problems such as gamma-ray bursts in the early universe, progenitors of Type Ia supernovae, and the nature of dark matter. However, the study has not progressed remarkably since the limited survey by COMPTEL onboard CGRO in the 1990s. Tanimori et al. have developed a Compton camera that tracks the trajectory of each recoil electron in addition to the information obtained by the conventional Compton cameras, leading to superior imaging. This Electron Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) facilitates accurate re…
Imaging of nuclear gamma-ray lines in the 1-10 MeV range is far from being established in both medical and physical applications. In proton therapy, 4.4 MeV gamma rays are emitted from the excited nucleus of either 12^C^* or 11^B^* and are considered good indicators of dose delivery and/or range verification. Further, in gamma-ray astronomy, 4.4 MeV gamma rays are produced by cosmic ray interactions in the interstellar medium, and can thus be used to probe nucleothynthesis in the universe. In this paper, we present a high-precision image of 4.4 MeV gamma rays taken by newly developed 3-D posit…
Compton scattering in terrestrial gamma-ray flashes detected with the Fermi gamma-ray burst monitor
地面伽玛射线闪光（英语：Terrestrial gamma ray flashes，缩写为TGFs）是一种与雷暴中的闪电活动相关的短时间强烈伽玛射线闪光。使用蒙特卡罗模拟的相对论逃逸电子雪崩（RREA）的过程中，理论预测的时间和光谱演化的TGFs进行了比较与观测的伽马射线暴监视器（GBM）上的费米伽玛射线太空望远镜。假设一个单一的源高度为15公里，模拟数据的比较进行了一系列的经验选择的源电子变化的时间尺度。数据表现出明显的软化源距离的增加，在定性与理论预测一致。模拟光谱在数据中遵循这一趋势，但往往低估了观察到的硬度。这种差异可能意味着基本的RREA模型是不够的。或者，相对于天顶倾斜的TGF光束可以产生与数据兼容的源距离的演变。基于这些结果，我们提出，通过GBM观察到的TGFs的源电子分布在至少几十微秒的时间尺度上变化，上限约为。100微秒
Current and Future Constraints on Dark Matter from Prompt and Inverse-Compton Photon Emission in the Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-ray Background
我们进行了详细的检查，从提示和逆康普顿发射光子，包括模型相关和模型无关的边界的湮灭和衰变暗物质模型的电流约束。我们还表明，所观察到的各向同性弥散伽马射线背景（DGRB），这提供了一个最保守的约束模型的湮灭弱尺度暗物质粒子，可能会提高其灵敏度的一个因素~2至3（95% C. L.）。因为费米-LAT实验通过五年的观测解决了DGRB贡献的blazar源。对于我们的预测，我们采用的结果约束的光度依赖的密度演化加上blazar光谱能量分布序列模型，这是由DGRB和blazar源计数分布函数的约束。
We present the joint NuSTAR and XMM-Newton spectral analysis in the 0.6-70 keV band of three candidate Compton thick (CT-) AGN selected in the 100-month Swift-BAT catalog. These objects were previously classified as CT-AGNs based on low quality Swift-XRT and Swift-BAT data, and had soft photon indices (Gamma>2.2) that suggested a potential overestimation of the line of sight column density. Thanks to the high-quality NuSTAR and XMM-Newton data we were able to determine that in all three objects the photon index was significantly overestimated, and two out of three sources are reclassified from…
An Electron-Tracking Compton Telescope for a Survey of the Deep Universe by MeV gamma-rays
MeV γ射线的光子成像由于背景大、图像不清晰而存在严重困难，其原因是探测中康普顿散射的物理参数确定不完整，缺乏反冲电子的方向信息。最近在MeV波段的主要飞行任务/仪器是康普顿伽马射线观测台/COMPTEL，它是康普顿照相机（CC），只探测到了$\sim30$持久源。它与GeV波段的$\sim$ 2000源形成鲜明对比。在这里，我们报告的电子跟踪康普顿相机（ETCC）的性能，并证明它有一个很好的潜力，以突破这一停滞在MeV的伽玛射线天文学。ETCC通过测量3-D反冲电子径迹提供康普顿散射的所有参数，然后恢复在CC中丢失的散射面偏差（SPD）。的能量损失率（dE/dx），其中CC无法测量，也得到了，并发现确实有助于减少背景下类似的空间条件下。因此，伽马检测的重要性提高了几倍。另一方面，SPD是定量确定点扩散函数（PSF）的必要条件。对于反冲电子的多次散射，SPD的分辨率提高到接近理论极限。有了这样一个良好确定的PSF，我们证明了第一次，它是可能的，以提供可靠的灵敏度在康普顿成像，而不利用优化算法。因此，这项研究突出了CC的根本弱点。相反，我们证明了ETCC在1 MeV下达到低于$1\times10^{-12}$ erg cm $^{-2}$ s $^{-1}$的灵敏度的可能性。
MeV gamma-rays provide a unique window for the direct measurement of line emissions from radioisotopes, but observations have made little significant progress after COMPTEL/{\it CGRO}. To observe celestial objects in this band, we are developing an electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC), which realizes both bijective imaging spectroscopy and efficient background reduction gleaned from the recoil electron track information. The energy spectrum of the observation target can then be obtained by a simple ON-OFF method using a correctly defined point spread function on the celestial sphere. The pe…
High-energy extension of the gamma-ray band observable with an electron-tracking Compton camera
Ritsumeikan University（立命馆大学）；Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University（立命馆大学科学技术研究机构）；Kyoto University（京都大学）；University of Maryland, Baltimore County（马里兰大学巴尔的摩分校）；Tohoku University（东北大学）；Kobe University（神户大学）；Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency（日本宇宙航空研究开发机构宇宙科学研究所）
