Measurement of ultra-high-energy diffuse gamma-ray emission of the Galactic plane from 10 TeV to 1 PeV with LHAASO-KM2A

Z Cao, F Aharonian, Q An, Axikegu, YX Bai, YW Bao… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The diffuse Galactic γ-ray emission, mainly produced via interactions between cosmic rays
and the interstellar medium and/or radiation field, is a very important probe of the …

[HTML][HTML] The LHAASO PeVatron bright sky: What we learned

M Cardillo, A Giuliani - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The recent detection of 12 γ-ray galactic sources well above E> 100 TeV by the LHAASO
observatory has been a breakthrough in the context of the search for the origin of cosmic …

Where are Milky Way's hadronic PeVatrons?

T Sudoh, JF Beacom - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Observations of the Milky Way at TeV–PeV energies reveal a bright diffuse flux of hadronic
cosmic rays and also bright point sources of gamma rays. If the gamma-ray sources are …

Self-calibration of LHAASO-KM2A electromagnetic particle detectors using single particles within extensive air showers

F Aharonian, Q An, Axikegu, LX Bai, YX Bai, YW Bao… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
In the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), the square kilometer array,
with 5249 electromagnetic particle detectors (EDs) and 1188 muon detectors, is deployed to …

Supernova connection of unidentified ultra-high-energy gamma-ray source LHAASO J2108+ 5157

A De Sarkar - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a simple phenomenological model of hadronic interaction between protons
accelerated in an old supernova remnant (SNR) and cold protons situated within the …

[HTML][HTML] The high energy X-ray probe (HEX-P): Galactic PeVatrons, star clusters, superbubbles, microquasar jets, and gamma-ray binaries

K Mori, S Reynolds, H An, A Bamba… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
HEX-P is a probe-class mission concept that will combine high spatial resolution X-ray
imaging (< 1 0 ″FWHM) and broad spectral coverage (0.2–80 keV) with an effective area …

Search for the Galactic accelerators of cosmic rays up to the knee with the Pevatron test statistic

EO Angüner, G Spengler, E Amato… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The Pevatron test statistic (PTS) is applied to data from γ-ray observatories to test for the
origin of cosmic rays (CRs) at energies around the knee of the CR spectrum. Several …

[HTML][HTML] LHAASO J2108+ 5157 as a molecular cloud illuminated by a supernova remnant

AMW Mitchell - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The search for Galactic PeVatrons–astrophysical accelerators of cosmic rays to
PeV energies–has entered a new phase in recent years with the discovery of the first ultra …

[HTML][HTML] Dissecting the emission from LHAASO J0341+ 5258: Implications for future multiwavelength observations

A De Sarkar, P Majumdar - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has detected multiple
ultra-high-energy (UHE; E γ≥ 100 TeV) gamma-ray sources in the Milky Way Galaxy, which …

VERITAS Highlights 2022

C McGrath, VERITAS Collaboration - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) is an
array of four 12 m Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), located at the Fred …