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 …

The energy spectrum of cosmic rays beyond the turn-down around  eV as measured with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

P Abreu, M Aglietta, JM Albury, I Allekotte… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
We present a measurement of the cosmic-ray spectrum above 100 PeV using the part of the
surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory that has a spacing of 750 m. An inflection of …

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 …

On the potential of bright, young pulsars to power ultrahigh gamma-ray sources

E de Oña Wilhelmi, R López-Coto… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent discovery of a new population of ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray sources with
spectra extending beyond 100 TeV revealed the presence of Galactic PeVatrons—cosmic …

Can superbubbles accelerate ultrahigh energy protons?

T Vieu, B Reville, F Aharonian - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We critically assess limits on the maximum energy of protons accelerated within
superbubbles around massive stellar clusters, considering a number of different scenarios …

A search for photons with energies above 2× 1017 eV using hybrid data from the low-energy extensions of the Pierre Auger Observatory

P Abreu, M Aglietta, JM Albury, I Allekotte… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent observations of photons with energies of a few 1014 eV from decaying neutral
pions, both from a direction coincident with a giant molecular cloud (HAWC J1825-134 …

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 …

Multiwavelength study of the galactic PeVatron candidate LHAASO J2108+ 5157

S Abe, A Aguasca-Cabot, I Agudo, NA Crespo… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Several new ultrahigh-energy (UHE) γ-ray sources have recently been discovered
by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) collaboration. These …

Detection of a new molecular cloud in the LHAASO J2108+ 5157 region supporting a hadronic PeVatron scenario

E De La Fuente, I Toledano-Juarez… - Publications of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
PeVatrons are the most powerful naturally occurring particle accelerators in the Universe.
The identification of counterparts associated to astrophysical objects such as dying massive …

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 …