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Title: Contribution from TeV halos to the isotropic gamma-ray background

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D.
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]
  1. University of Chicago, IL (United States)
  2. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); University of Chicago, IL (United States)

We report recent observations have shown that pulsars are surrounded by extended regions which emit TeV-scale gamma rays through the inverse Compton scattering of very high energy electrons and positrons. Such TeV halos are responsible for a large fraction of the Milky Way’s TeV-scale gamma-ray emission. In this paper, we calculate the gamma-ray spectrum from the population of TeV halos located within the Andromeda Galaxy, predicting a signal that is expected to be detectable by the Cherenkov Telescope Array. We also calculate the contribution from TeV halos to the isotropic gamma-ray background, finding that these sources should contribute significantly to this flux at the highest measured energies, constituting up to ~20 % of the signal observed above ~0.1TeV. We also comment on the implications of our results for the origin of the diffuse neutrino flux detected by IceCube.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1834158
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-21-554-T; arXiv:2111.03646; oai:inspirehep.net:1961644; TRN: US2300132
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D., Vol. 106, Issue 2; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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