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The Extended Ultrahigh-energy Gamma-Ray Emission in the Vicinity of PSR J2238+5903
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +324
We present a comprehensive analysis of the recently discovered TeV gamma-ray source, LHAASO J2238+5900. Based on data collected from the LHAASO, our fitting results suggest that th…
LHAASO observation of Mrk 421 during 2021 March - 2024 March: a comprehensive VHE catalog of multi-timescale outbursts and its time average behavior
The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +321
The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) monitors sources within its field of view for up to 7 hours daily, achieving a duty cycle exceeding 98% and an annual point-…
Energy-Dependent Shifts of Medium-Scale Anisotropies in Very-High-Energy Cosmic Rays Observed by LHAASO-KM2A
The LHAASO collabration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +310
Small deviations from isotropy in the arrival directions of Galactic cosmic rays serve as a unique probe of the local magnetic environment. In this Letter, we report observations o…
Cygnus X-3: A variable petaelectronvolt gamma-ray source
The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +324
We report the discovery of variable -rays up to petaelectronvolt from Cygnus X-3, an iconic X-ray binary. The -ray signal was detected with a statistical significance of appr…
LHAASO Detection of Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission toward the Giant Molecular Clouds
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +310
The -ray from Giant molecular clouds (GMCs) is regarded as the most ideal tool to perform in-situ measurement of cosmic ray (CR) density and spectra in our Galaxy. We report the…
Energy calibration of LHAASO-KM2A using the cosmic ray Moon shadow
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +323
We present a precise measurement of the westward, rigidity-dependent shift of the Moon's shadow using three and a half years of cosmic-ray data collected by the Kilometer Square Ar…
Constraining the Cosmic-ray Energy Based on Observations of Nearby Galaxy Clusters by LHAASO
The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +323
Galaxy clusters act as reservoirs of high-energy cosmic rays (CRs). As CRs propagate through the intracluster medium, they generate diffuse -rays detectable by arrays such as LH…
An Enigmatic PeVatron in an Area around HII Region G35.60.5
The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +294
Identifying Galactic PeVatrons (PeV particle accelerators) from the ultra-high-energy (UHE, >100 TeV) -ray sources plays a crucial role in revealing the origin of Galactic cosmi…
Measurement of Very-high-energy Diffuse Gamma-ray Emissions from the Galactic Plane with LHAASO-WCDA
The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +312
The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is a very important tool used to study the propagation and interaction of cosmic rays in the Milky Way. In this work, we report the measurem…
Detection of two TeV gamma-ray outbursts from NGC 1275 by LHAASO
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Axikegu +275
The Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA) is one of the components of Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) and can monitor any sources over two-thirds of the sky for…
Detection of very high-energy gamma-ray emission from the radio galaxy M87 with LHAASO
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Axikegu +292
The nearby radio galaxy M87 is a very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emitter established by observations with ground-based gamma-ray detectors. Here we report the long-term monitoring…
Measurement of attenuation length of the muon content in extensive air showers from 0.3 to 30 PeV with LHAASO
The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +323
The attenuation length of the muon content in extensive air showers provides important information regarding the generation and development of air showers. This information can be…
LHAASO detection of very-high-energy gamma-ray emission surrounding PSR J0248+6021
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Q. An +276
We report the detection of an extended very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray source coincident with the location of middle-aged (62.4~\rm kyr) pulsar PSR J0248+6021, by using the LHAASO…
Evidence for particle acceleration approaching PeV energies in the W51 complex
The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +284
The -ray emission from the W51 complex is widely acknowledged to be attributed to the interaction between the cosmic rays (CRs) accelerated by the shock of supernova remnant (SN…
Constraints on Ultra Heavy Dark Matter Properties from Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with LHAASO Observations
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Q. An +276
In this work we try to search for signals generated by ultra-heavy dark matter at the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) data. We look for possible gamma-ray by da…
Discovery of Very-high-energy Gamma-ray Emissions from the Low Luminosity AGN NGC 4278 by LHAASO
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Q. An +276
The first source catalog of Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory reported the detection of a very-high-energy gamma ray source, 1LHAASO J1219+2915. In this paper a further de…
LHAASO-KM2A detector simulation using Geant4
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Q. An +275
KM2A is one of the main sub-arrays of LHAASO, working on gamma ray astronomy and cosmic ray physics at energies above 10 TeV. Detector simulation is the important foundation for es…
Stringent Tests of Lorentz Invariance Violation from LHAASO Observations of GRB 221009A
The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +283
On October 9, 2022, the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) reported the observation of the very early TeV afterglow of the brightest-of-all-time GRB 221009A, recor…
Optimization of performance of the KM2A full array using the Crab Nebula
LHAASO collaboration
The full array of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has been in operation since July 2021. For its kilometer-square array (KM2A), we have optimized the select…
Very high energy gamma-ray emission beyond 10 TeV from GRB 221009A
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Q. An +276
The highest energy gamma-rays from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have important implications for their radiation mechanism. Here we report for the first time the detection of gamma-rays…
Does or did the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A operate as a PeVatron?
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Q. An +276
For decades, supernova remnants (SNRs) have been considered the prime sources of Galactic Cosmic rays (CRs). But whether SNRs can accelerate CR protons to PeV energies and thus dom…
An Ultrahigh-energy -ray Bubble Powered by a Super PeVatron
The LHAASO Collaboration, Z. Cao, F. Aharonian +277
We report the detection of a -ray bubble spanning at least 100 in ultra high energy (UHE) up to a few PeV in the direction of the star-forming region Cygnus X, implyi…
A tera-electronvolt afterglow from a narrow jet in an extremely bright gamma-ray burst 221009A
LHAASO Collaboration
Some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have an afterglow in the tera-electronvolt (TeV) band, but the early onset of this afterglow has not been observed. We report observations with the Lar…
The First LHAASO Catalog of Gamma-Ray Sources
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Q. An +276
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 (LHAASO). The catalog was compil…