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Search for Ultra-Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with LHAASO-KM2A
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +335
Ultra-relativistic magnetic monopoles traversing the atmosphere are expected to initiate extensive air showers characterized by a muon deficit and a compact lateral profile. Using…
Extreme PeV accelerator associated with GRS 1915+105
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +322
Microquasars, binary systems featuring relativistic jets, have emerged as sources for particle acceleration beyond PeV energies. We present a study of the broadband -ray emissio…
Ultra-high-energy -ray imprints from PeV particles accelerated by supernova remnants
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +320
The quest for the origin of cosmic ray (CRs) is a fundamental issue in astrophysics. Shocks of supernova remnants (SNRs) have been considered as the dominant contributors to Galact…
Search for TeV emission from spider millisecond pulsars with HAWC
R. Alfaro, E. Anita-Rangel, M. Araya +90
Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are observed to emit multi-wavelength radiation, from radio to GeV. Spider MSPs, which interact with their low-mass companion in close orbit (orbital per…
A Multi-messenger Search for Ultra-high-energy Gamma Rays in Coincidence with Neutrinos
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andrés +101
The last five years have shown us that ultra-high-energy (UHE; 100 TeV) gamma-ray sources are ubiquitous, but the nature of these sources remain highly uncertain. UHE gamma rays…
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-…
Investigating IceCube Neutrino Alerts with the HAWC -Ray Observatory
The HAWC Collaboration, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +95
Neutrino emission from astrophysical sources has long been considered a signature of cosmic-ray acceleration. The IceCube neutrino observatory has observed a diffuse flux of TeV-Pe…
Improved Heavy Dark Matter Annihilation Search from Dwarf Galaxies with HAWC
A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +103
Understanding dark matter's elusive nature is crucial for the framework of particle physics and expanding the Standard Model. This analysis utilizes the High Altitude Water Cherenk…
Transient Large-Scale Anisotropy in TeV Cosmic Rays due to an Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +309
Large- or medium-scale cosmic ray anisotropy at TeV energies has not previously been confirmed to vary with time. Transient anisotropy changes have been observed below 150 GeV, esp…
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…
A Giant Peanut-shaped Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emitter Off the Galactic Plane
Zhen Cao, Felix Aharonian, Yunxiang Bai +312
Ultra-high-energy (UHE), exceeding 100 TeV (10^12 electronvolts), γ-rays manifests extreme particle acceleration in astrophysical sources. Recent observations by γ-ray telescopes,…
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…
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…
Orbital Modulation of Gamma-Rays Beyond 100 TeV from LS 5039
R. Alfaro, M. Araya, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +88
Gamma-ray binaries are systems composed of a compact object orbiting a massive companion star. The interaction between these two objects can drive relativistic outflows, either jet…
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…
Broadband -ray spectrum of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A
Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +311
The core-collapse supernova remnant (SNR) Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is one of the brightest galactic radio sources with an angular radius of 2.5 $\arcmin$. Although no extension…
Study of long-term spectral evolution and X-ray and Gamma-ray correlation of blazars seen by HAWC
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andrés +94
The HAWC Observatory collected 6 years of extensive data, providing an ideal platform for long-term monitoring of blazars in the Very High Energy (VHE) band, without bias towards s…
TeV Analysis of a Source Rich Region with HAWC Observatory: Is HESS J1809-193 a Potential Hadronic PeVatron?
A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +79
HESS J1809-193 is an unidentified TeV source, first detected by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) Collaboration. The emission originates in a source-rich region that i…
Search for joint multimessenger signals from potential galactic cosmic-ray accelerators with HAWC and IceCube
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +489
The origin of high-energy galactic cosmic rays is yet to be understood, but some galactic cosmic-ray accelerators can accelerate cosmic rays up to PeV energies. The high-energy cos…
Search for Decaying Dark Matter in the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies with HAWC
A. Albert, R. Alfaro, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +55
The decay or annihilation of dark matter particles may produce a steady flux of very-high-energy gamma rays detectable above the diffuse background. Nearby clusters of galaxies pro…
Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to spectral signatures of hadronic PeVatrons with application to Galactic Supernova Remnants
The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium, F. Acero, A. Acharyya +356
The local Cosmic Ray (CR) energy spectrum exhibits a spectral softening at energies around 3~PeV. Sources which are capable of accelerating hadrons to such energies are called hadr…
Searching for TeV Dark Matter in Irregular dwarf galaxies with HAWC Observatory
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +69
We present the results of dark matter (DM) searches in a sample of 31 dwarf irregular (dIrr) galaxies within the field of view of the HAWC Observatory. dIrr galaxies are DM dominat…