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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

Multi-band optical photometric variability of the blazar OJ 287 from 2015 to 2025

Alok C. Gupta, Karan Dogra, Mark Kidger +101

We present the most densely sampled multi-band optical photometric observations of the peculiar BL Lacertae object OJ 287 from 2015 to 2025 with a focus on its optical activity on…

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

Optical Photometric Monitoring of the Blazar OT 355 and Local Standard Stars' Calibration

R. Bachev, Tushar Tripathi, Alok C. Gupta +11

OT 355 (4FGL J1734.3 + 3858) is a relatively rarely studied but highly variable, moderate-redshift (z = 0.975) flat-spectrum radio quasar (blazar). With this work, we aim to study…

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.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.HE2023

The jet apparent motion and central engine study of Fermi blazars

H. B. Xiao, J. T. Zhu, J. H. Fan +3

The study of blazar jet has been performed for several decades via the VLBI technique, while its generation and propagation stay unclear. In the present work, we compiled a sample…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 7 cited

Exploring TeV candidates of Fermi blazars through machine learning

J. T. Zhu, C. Lin, H. B. Xiao +3

In this work, we make use of a supervised machine learning algorithm based on Logistic Regression (LR) to select TeV blazar candidates from the 4FGL-DR2 / 4LAC-DR2, 3FHL, 3HSP, and…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 40 cited

Constraints on heavy decaying dark matter from 570 days of LHAASO observations

The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +276

The Kilometer Square Array~(KM2A) of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) aims at surveying the northern gamma-ray sky at energies above 10 TeV with unprecedente…

astro-ph.HE2021

A study of Intrinsic -ray Emission for {\it Fermi}/LAT-detected BL Lacs

X. H. Ye, X. T. Zeng, W. X. Yang +7

BL Lacs are one subclass of blazars with highly energetic -ray emission, which is strongly boosted by a relativistic beaming effect. The latest catalogue of the 10 years of {\it…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 191 cited

Peta-electron volt gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula

The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +269

The Crab pulsar and the surrounding nebula powered by the pulsar's rotational energy through the formation and termination of a relativistic electron-positron wind is a bright sour…

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★ 5 cited

Exploring Lorentz Invariance Violation from Ultra-high-energy Gamma Rays Observed by LHAASO

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Q. An +268

Recently the LHAASO Collaboration published the detection of 12 ultra-high-energy gamma-ray sources above 100 TeV, with the highest energy photon reaching 1.4 PeV. The first detect…

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.HE2016★ 45 cited

Multiband optical variability of the blazar OJ 287 during its outbursts in 2015 -- 2016

Alok C. Gupta, A. Agarwal, A. Mishra +31

We present recent optical photometric observations of the blazar OJ 287 taken during September 2015 -- May 2016. Our intense observations of the blazar started in November 2015 and…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 44 cited

Multi-band optical variability of the Blazar S5 0716+714 in outburst state during 2014-2015

Aditi Agarwal, Alok C. Gupta, R. Bachev +7

We analyzed the multi-band optical behaviour of the BL Lacertae object, S5 0716+714, during its outburst state from 2014 November - 2015 March. We took data on 23 nights at three o…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 33 cited

Beaming Effect in Fermi Blazars

J. H. Fan, J. H. Yang, J. Y. Zhang +4

The γ-ray loud blazars (flat spectrum radio quasars--FSRQs and BL Lacertae objects-BLs) are very bright in the γ-ray bands, which is perhaps associated with a beaming effect. There…