2013/06/28 by O. Tibolla, Omar Tibolla, M. Vorster +12
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #COSMIC cancer database #Cosmic ray #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #FOS: Physical sciences #Galaxy #Gamma ray #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #High energy #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics #Physics #Pulsar #astro-ph.HE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1306.6833
ICRC 2013 proceedings paper
arxiv created 2013/06/28 · openalex publication_date 2013/06/28 · arxiv updated 2013/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The evolution of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) plays a crucial role in interpreting the very high energy (VHE; > 1011 eV) gamma-ray unidentified sources; and moreover it represents the only viable option to explain the discovery of several "dark sources" in the TeV gamma-ray (i.e. VHE gamma-ray sources without lower energies, radio or X-ray counterparts). The newest time-dependent modeling of PWNe presented in [1] and [2] has to be tested on a broader sample of young well-known PWNe and applied to the full-sample of "dark sources". The consequences of this interpretation go far beyond the interpretation of "dark sources": e.g. there could be strong implication in the origin of cosmic rays and (when considering a leptonic origin of the gamma-ray signal) they can be important for reinterpreting the detection of starburst galaxies in the TeV gamma-ray band.