From GeV to PeV: Orbital Modulation and Wind-Regulated Ultrahigh-energy Emission in Cygnus X-3

arXiv:2610.11881 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Terminology

• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosmic Microwave Background — 1× in this paper
• EC and Synchrotron Self-Compton — 1× in this paper
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Unveiling Multimessenger Emission from Hidden Cores of Microquasars
• Extreme Transients in Gamma Rays
• Near-IR and X-ray Variability of Cyg X-3: Evidence for a Compact IR Source and Complex Wind Structures
• The counterjet dominates the production of PeV photons from Cyg X-3
• Constraining the PeV gamma-ray emission zone of Cygnus X-3 with contemporaneous GeV timing and spectral observations
• Energy spectra of gamma-rays, electrons and neutrinos produced at proton-proton interactions in the very high energy regime
• Gemini/GNIRS infrared spectroscopy of the Wolf-Rayet stellar wind in Cygnus X-3
• Long-term study of the gamma-ray emission of Cygnus X-3 with MAGIC and Fermi-LAT
• The Disk-Wind-Jet Connection in the Black Hole H 1743-322
• On the role of the UV and X-ray radiation in driving a disk wind in X-ray binaries
• The proper motion and changing jet morphology of Cygnus X-3
• The lifetime of cosmic rays in the Milky Way
• An update on Fermi-LAT transients in the Galactic plane, including strong activity of Cygnus X-3 in mid-2020
• Microquasar Cygnus X-3 as the PeVatron powering the Cygnus Bubble
• Monte-Carlo simulations of photohadronic processes in astrophysics
• CRPropa 3.2 -- an advanced framework for high-energy particle propagation in extragalactic and galactic spaces
• The Temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background
• Physical Properties of Wolf-Rayet Stars
• Black Hole Winds II: Hyper-Eddington Winds and Feedback

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