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most citedThe First LHAASO Catalog of Gamma-Ray Sources

247 citations · 806 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

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

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

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…

astro-ph.HE2024

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…

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…

physics.space-ph2024★ 5 cited

Monitoring the daily variation of Sun-Earth magnetic fields using galactic cosmic rays

The LHAASO Collaboration, C. W. Jiang, Y. Yang

The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) between the Sun and Earth is an extension of the solar magnetic field carried by the solar wind into interplanetary space. Monitoring variat…

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

Deep view of Composite SNR CTA1 with LHAASO in -rays up to 300 TeV

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +323

The ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray source 1LHAASO J0007+7303u is positionally associated with the composite SNR CTA1 that is located at high Galactic Latitude $b\approx 10.5^\ci…

astro-ph.IM2024

Data quality control system and long-term performance monitor of the LHAASO-KM2A

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Axikegu +282

The KM2A is the largest sub-array of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO). It consists of 5216 electromagnetic particle detectors (EDs) and 1188 muon detectors (…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

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…

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.IM2024★ 13 cited

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…

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

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★ 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…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 11 cited

Flux Variations of Cosmic Ray Air Showers Detected by LHAASO-KM2A During a Thunderstorm on 10 June 2021

LHAASO Collaboration, F. Aharonian, Q. An +268

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has three sub-arrays, KM2A, WCDA and WFCTA. The flux variations of cosmic ray air showers were studied by analyzing the KM2A…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 34 cited

Discovery of a new -ray source LHAASO J0341+5258 with emission up to 200TeV

The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +267

We report the discovery of a new unidentified extended -ray source in the Galactic plane named LHAASO J0341+5258 with a pre-trial significance of 8.2 standard deviations above 2…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 51 cited

Discovery of the Ultra-high energy gamma-ray source LHAASO J2108+5157

The LHAASO collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +267

We report the discovery of a UHE gamma-ray source, LHAASO J2108+5157, by analyzing the LHAASO-KM2A data of 308.33 live days. Significant excess of gamma-ray induced showers is obse…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 135 cited

Extended Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission Surrounding PSR J0622 + 3749 Observed by LHAASO-KM2A

The LHAASO collabration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +310

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 J0622+3749 with the Large High Altitude…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 95 cited

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) Science Book (2021 Edition)

Zhen Cao, D. della Volpe, Siming Liu +87

Since the science white paper of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) published on arXiv in 2019 [e-Print: 1905.02773 (astro-ph.HE)], LHAASO has completed the tr…