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TeV Halos are Everywhere: Prospects for New Discoveries

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Takahiro Sudoh, Tim Linden, John F. Beacom

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Submitted 21 Feb 2019

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The authors' main claim We predict, using models normalized to current data, that future HAWC and CTA observations will detect in total $\sim$50--240 TeV halos, though we note that multiple systematic uncertainties still exist.

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CitationJohn F. Beacom, Takahiro Sudoh, Tim Linden. "TeV Halos are Everywhere: Prospects for New Discoveries." arXiv:1902.08203 (2019). https://pith.science/paper/OPPT7YHY
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Milagro and HAWC have detected extended TeV gamma-ray emission around nearby pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). Building on these discoveries, Linden et al. [1] identified a new source class -- TeV halos -- powered by the interactions of high-energy electrons and positrons that have escaped from the PWN, but which remain trapped in a larger region where diffusion is inhibited compared to the interstellar medium. Many theoretical properties of TeV halos remain mysterious, but empirical arguments suggest that they are ubiquitous. The key to progress is finding more halos. We outline prospects for new discoveries and calculate their expectations and uncertainties. We predict, using models normalized to current data, that future HAWC and CTA observations will detect in total $\sim$50--240 TeV halos, though we note that multiple systematic uncertainties still exist. Further, the existing HESS source catalog could contain $\sim$10--50 TeV halos that are presently classified as unidentified sources or PWN candidates. We quantify the importance of these detections for new probes of the evolution of TeV halos, pulsar properties, and the sources of high-energy gamma rays and cosmic rays.

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s0 Milagro and HAWC have detected extended TeV gamma-ray emission around nearby pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). background 1.00 0.06 0.03 asserted 1.00
s1 Building on these discoveries, Linden et al. [1] identified a new source class -- TeV halos -- powered by the interactions of high-energy electrons and positrons that have escaped from the PWN, but which remain trapped in a larger region where diffusion is inhibited compared to the interstellar medium. background 0.98 0.04 0.08 asserted 1.00
s2 Many theoretical properties of TeV halos remain mysterious, but empirical arguments suggest that they are ubiquitous. gap 0.57 0.11 0.21 hedged possibility 0.97
s3 The key to progress is finding more halos. gap 0.55 0.10 0.11 asserted 0.97
s4 We outline prospects for new discoveries and calculate their expectations and uncertainties. contribution 0.98 0.75 0.06 asserted 0.80
s5 We predict, using models normalized to current data, that future HAWC and CTA observations will detect in total $\sim$50--240 TeV halos, though we note that multiple systematic uncertainties still exist. result 0.98 0.91 0.61 asserted 0.54
s6 Further, the existing HESS source catalog could contain $\sim$10--50 TeV halos that are presently classified as unidentified sources or PWN candidates. result 0.97 0.63 0.08 hedged possibility 0.99
s7 We quantify the importance of these detections for new probes of the evolution of TeV halos, pulsar properties, and the sources of high-energy gamma rays and cosmic rays. interpretation 0.70 0.75 0.09 asserted 0.95

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Milagro and HAWC have detected extended TeV gamma-ray emission around nearby pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). Building on these discoveries, Linden et al. [1] identified a new source class -- TeV halos -- powered by the interactions of high-energy electrons and positrons that have escaped from the PWN, but which remain trapped in a larger region where diffusion is inhibited compared to the interstellar medium. Many theoretical properties of TeV halos remain mysterious, but empirical arguments suggest that they are ubiquitous. The key to progress is finding more halos. We outline prospects for new discoveries and calculate their expectations and uncertainties. We predict, using models normalized to current data, that future HAWC and CTA observations will detect in total $\sim$50--240 TeV halos, though we note that multiple systematic uncertainties still exist. Further, the existing HESS source catalog could contain $\sim$10--50 TeV halos that are presently classified as unidentified sources or PWN candidates. We quantify the importance of these detections for new probes of the evolution of TeV halos, pulsar properties, and the sources of high-energy gamma rays and cosmic rays.

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  • The total energy released by a pulsar over its lifetime is $ℰ_pul∼10^49(P_0/50 ms)^-2$ erg ($P_0$ is the initial pulsar spin period), with electrons carrying $∼$10% of this [ref] .

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  • This strongly suggests that future very-high and ultra-high-energy gamma-ray telescopes will be capable of detecting large numbers of currently unresolved TeV halos [ref] .

    Diffuse Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission From TeV Halos · Discussion and Summary · 0.96

  • This suspicion is strengthened by observations that indicate that young and middle-aged pulsars have high efficiencies for producing TeV gamma rays via leptonic processes [ref] .

    Where are Milky Way's Hadronic PeVatrons? · Overview of Very High Energy Emission · 0.98

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  • The primary observational characteristics of TeV halos include: (1) a hard $γ$-ray spectrum consistent with inverse-Compton (IC) scattering, (2) a roughly spherically symmetric emission morphology that does not trace Galactic gas, (3) a coincidence with young and middle-aged pulsars, though millisecond pulsars may also produce TeV halos, (4) diffusive particle propagation that extends out to $∼$10–50 pc [ref] .

    Anisotropic diffusion cannot explain TeV halo observations · Introduction · 0.90

  • The diffusion coefficient is several hundred times smaller than the typical value in the Galaxy, and the accumulated electrons generate observable gamma-ray halos through the inverse Compton scattering (ICS) of the background photons, which are known as the pulsar halos [ref] .

    Interpretation of the puzzling gamma-ray spectrum of the Geminga halo · Introduction · 0.88

  • TeV halos are much larger in extension than PWN but are close enough to the central pulsar that this region is still dominated by pulsar activity and cosmic ray diffusion [ref] .

    Gamma-ray emission revealed at the western edge of SNR G344.7-0.1 · HESS J1702-420 · 0.86

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  • To normalize these parameters to Geminga, we follow the theoretical treatment of Ref. [ref] , which calculates the inverse-Compton scattering $γ$-ray spectrum from Ref. [ref] .

    Pulsar TeV Halos Explain the TeV Excess Observed by Milagro · TeV Halo Population Models · 0.97

  • We take into account the degradation of the flux sensitivity for sources that are larger than the size of the PSF, utilizing a model where the sensitivity decreases by a factor of $θ_size/θ_PSF$ compared to the point source sensitivity [ref] .

    Teraelectronvolt Astronomy · Sources in the 2HWC Catalog · 0.92

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