Gamma-ray haloes around pulsars as the key to understanding cosmic-ray transport in the Galaxy

R López-Coto, E de Oña Wilhelmi, F Aharonian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Pulsars are factories of relativistic electrons and positrons that propagate away from the
pulsar, eventually permeating our Galaxy. The acceleration and propagation of these cosmic …

Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy

Z Cao, S Chen, R Liu, R Yang - Annual Review of Nuclear and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Ultra-high-energy (UHE,> 0.1 PeV) γ-ray astronomy is rapidly evolving into an expanding
branch of γ-ray astronomy with the surprising discovery of 12 PeVatrons and the detection of …

Ultrahigh-energy photons up to 1.4 petaelectronvolts from 12 γ-ray Galactic sources

Z Cao, FA Aharonian, Q An, Axikegu, LX Bai, YX Bai… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The extension of the cosmic-ray spectrum beyond 1 petaelectronvolt (PeV; 1015
electronvolts) indicates the existence of the so-called PeVatrons—cosmic-ray factories that …

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 …

3HWC: The third HAWC catalog of very-high-energy gamma-ray sources

A Albert, R Alfaro, C Alvarez… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new catalog of TeV gamma-ray sources using 1523 days of data from the High-
Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory. The catalog represents the most sensitive …

Extended Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission Surrounding PSR Observed by LHAASO-KM2A

F Aharonian, Q An, Axikegu, LX Bai, YX Bai, YW Bao… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We report the discovery of an extended very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray source around
the location of the middle-aged (207.8 kyr) pulsar PSR J 0622+ 3749 with the Large High …

The first LHAASO catalog of gamma-ray sources

Z Cao, F Aharonian, Q An, YX Bai… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first catalog of very-high-energy and ultra-high-energy gamma-ray sources
detected by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory. The catalog was compiled …

[HTML][HTML] ASTRI Mini-Array core science at the Observatorio del Teide

S Vercellone, C Bigongiari, A Burtovoi… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The ASTRI (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) Project led by
the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) is developing and will deploy at the …

GeV-scale thermal WIMPs: Not even slightly ruled out

RK Leane, TR Slatyer, JF Beacom, KCY Ng - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) have long reigned as one of the leading
classes of dark matter candidates. The observed dark matter abundance can be naturally …

A precision search for WIMPs with charged cosmic rays

A Reinert, MW Winkler - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
AMS-02 has reached the sensitivity to probe canonical thermal WIMPs by their annihilation
into antiprotons. Due to the high precision of the data, uncertainties in the astrophysical …