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astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

Pair echo model of CTAO/LST-1 signal from GRB 221009A

Andrii Neronov, Ievgen Vovk, Teneman Keita +1

Interactions of very-high energy gamma-rays during their propagation through the intergalactic medium result in a delayed secondary ``pair echo'' signal. Detection of such pair ech…

astro-ph.HE2026

Constraints on the VHE counterpart of two binary black hole mergers observed by the MAGIC and CTAO LST-1 telescopes

K. Abe, S. Abe, J. Abhir +358

We present very-high-energy gamma-ray observations of two binary black hole merger candidates, GW240615_113620 and GW241125_010116, performed with the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imagi…

astro-ph.HE2026

Detection of the distant quasar OP 313 with the first Large-Sized Telescope of CTAO

K. Abe, S. Abe, J. Abhir +412

In December 2023, the Large-Sized Telescope prototype (LST-1) detected for the first time VHE -ray emission from the FSRQ OP~313 becoming the furthest blazar ever observed at VH…

astro-ph.HE2026

Extreme Blazars Observed with MAGIC: Second Catalog Release

K. Abe, S. Abe, J. Abhir +353

Extremely high-peaked BL Lac objects - also named extreme blazars - are among the most energetic and persistent extragalactic accelerators in the Universe, defined by a synchrotron…

astro-ph.HE2026

Pulsar based modeling of point spread function of Fermi Large Area Telescope

J. Blunier, A. Neronov, D. Semikoz

Sensitivity of searches for extended emission around gamma-ray sources is naturally limited by the precision of the knowledge of the Point Spread Function (PSF) of gamma-ray telesc…

astro-ph.HE2025

Magnetic field spreading from stellar and galactic dynamos into the exterior

Axel Brandenburg, Oindrila Ghosh, Franco Vazza +1

The exteriors of stellar and galactic dynamos are usually modeled as current-free potential fields. A more realistic description might instead be that of a force-free magnetic fiel…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Leptonic and hadronic models of high-energy nebula around V4641 Sgr

Maksim Kleimenov, Andrii Neronov, Foteini Oikonomou +1

A prominent, 200-pc-scale high-energy nebula surrounding the microquasar V4641 Sgr is the brightest known gamma-ray source in the Southern sky at . In this p…

astro-ph.HE2025

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,…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Very-high-energy observations of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151 with MAGIC -- Indication of another gamma-ray obscured candidate neutrino source

K. Abe, S. Abe, J. Abhir +207

Seyfert galaxies are emerging as a promising source class of high-energy neutrinos. The Seyfert galaxies NGC 4151 and NGC 1068 have come up respectively as the most promising count…

astro-ph.HE2025

Diffuse gamma-ray and neutrino emission from the Milky Way and the local knee in the cosmic ray spectrum

C. Prevotat, Zh. Zhu, S. Koldobskiy +3

The LHAASO observatory has recently measured details of the cosmic-ray (CR) spectrum in the knee region (1 -- 10 PeV) with unprecedented precision, including its average CR mass co…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

GRB 221009A: Observations with LST-1 of CTAO and Implications for Structured Jets in Long Gamma-Ray Bursts

LST Collaboration, K. Abe, S. Abe +328

GRB 221009A is the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) observed to date. Extensive observations of its afterglow emission across the electromagnetic spectrum were performed, providing…

astro-ph.HE2025

Catalog of very-high-energy emitting active galactic nuclei at high Galactic latitudes

A. Neronov, D. Semikoz

Large number of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) producing Very-High-Energy (VHE) gamma-rays (energies above 100~GeV) has been revealed using observations with Imaging Atmospheric Cher…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Revision of conservative lower bound on the intergalactic magnetic field from Fermi and Cherenkov telescope observations of extreme blazars

J. Blunier, A. Neronov, D. Semikoz

Joint observations of extreme blazars with Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACT) have been previously used to derive lower bounds on…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

KM3-230213A: An Ultra-High Energy Neutrino from a Year-Long Astrophysical Transient

Andrii Neronov, Foteini Oikonomou, Dmitri Semikoz

The Km3NET collaboration has recently reported the detection of a neutrino event with energy in excess of 100 PeV. This detection is in 2.5-3 tension with the upper limit on the…

astro-ph.HE2024

Intergalactic magnetism in a gamma-ray beam as a model of Porphyrion

A. Neronov, F. Vazza, A. Brandenburg +1

We estimate the magnetic field in the jets of the recently discovered 7 Mpc long Porphyrion system. We use non-detection of the system in gamma-rays to derive a lower bound on the…

astro-ph.HE2024

Multi-messenger signature of cosmic rays from the microquasar V4641 Sgr propagating along a Galactic Magnetic Field line

Andrii Neronov, Foteini Oikonomou, Dmitri Semikoz

The recently detected extended, very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the microquasar V4641 Sgr reveals a puzzling 200-parsec-long jet-like structure significantly misaligned wi…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 9 cited

Ultrahigh-Energy Gamma-ray Emission Associated with Black Hole-Jet Systems

The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, Felix Aharonian +315

Black holes (BH), one of the most intriguing objects in the universe, can manifest themselves through electromagnetic radiation initiated by the accretion flow. Some stellar-mass B…

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★ 2 cited

Neutrino signal from Cygnus region of the Milky Way

A. Neronov, D. Semikoz, D. Savchenko

Interactions of cosmic ray protons and nuclei in their sources and in the interstellar medium produce "hadronic" gamma-ray emission. Gamma-rays can also be of "leptonic" origin, i.…

astro-ph.HE2023

Detection of the 2021 Outburst of RS Ophiuchi with the LST-1

Yukiho Kobayashi, Arnau Aguasca-Cabot, María Isabel Bernardos Martín +2

Novae are luminous explosions in close binaries which host a white dwarf and a companion donor star. They are triggered by a thermonuclear runaway when the white dwarf accretes a c…

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★ 2 cited

Performance of the Large-Sized Telescope prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Daniel Morcuende, Rubén López-Coto, Abelardo Moralejo +2

The next-generation ground-based gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will consist of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) of three different sizes di…