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astro-ph.HE2026

LHAASO-WCDA observed a 5 days TeV-delayed flaring event in blazar 1ES 1959+650

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +339

We report a day-scale hard lag between GeV and TeV -ray emission from the HBL 1ES~1959+650 in early 2024. Since the LHAASO-WCDA real-time monitoring system began operation in la…

astro-ph.HE2026

Anisotropic Particle Transport from a Pulsar Wind Nebula Revealed by Einstein Probe and LHAASO

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +339

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are major cosmic ray accelerators, yet the mechanisms transporting high-energy particles into the interstellar medium remain elusive. Building on the LHA…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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-…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Science Prospects for the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory: SWGO

SWGO Collaboration, P. Abreu, R. Alfaro +303

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is now well established as a key observational approach to address critical topics at the frontiers of astroparticle physics and high-energy astrop…

astro-ph.HE2025

All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +311

Primordial Black Holes~(PBHs) are hypothetical black holes with a wide range of masses that formed in the early universe. As a result, they may play an important cosmological role…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Ultra-high-energy -ray emission associated with the tail of a bow-shock pulsar wind nebula

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +292

In this study, we present a comprehensive analysis of an unidentified point-like ultra-high-energy (UHE) -ray source, designated as 1LHAASO J1740+0948u, situated in the vicinity…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 27 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 12 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2024

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…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 8 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 21 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 52 cited

Measurements of All-Particle Energy Spectrum and Mean Logarithmic Mass of Cosmic Rays from 0.3 to 30 PeV with LHAASO-KM2A

The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +277

We present the measurements of all-particle energy spectrum and mean logarithmic mass of cosmic rays in the energy range of 0.3-30 PeV using data collected from LHAASO-KM2A between…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 112 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 85 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 220 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 247 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 129 cited

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

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Q. An +276

The diffuse Galactic -ray emission, mainly produced via interactions between cosmic rays and the interstellar medium and/or radiation field, is a very important probe of the dis…