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most citedFirst Detection of sub-PeV Diffuse Gamma Rays from the Galactic Disk: Evidence for Ubiquitous Galactic Cosmic Rays beyond PeV Energies

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44 papers

astro-ph.HE2023★ 11 cited

Observation of gamma rays up to 320 TeV from the middle-aged TeV pulsar wind nebula HESS J1849000

M. Amenomori, S. Asano, Y. W. Bao +115

Gamma rays from HESS J1849000, a middle-aged TeV pulsar wind nebula (PWN), are observed by the Tibet air shower array and the muon detector array. The detection significance of…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

Measurement of the Gamma-Ray Energy Spectrum beyond 100 TeV from the HESS J1843033 Region

M. Amenomori, S. Asano, Y. W. Bao +113

HESS J1843033 is a very-high-energy gamma-ray source whose origin remains unidentified. This work presents, for the first time, the energy spectrum of gamma rays beyond $100\, {…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

Reexamine the dark matter scenario accounting for the positron excess in a new cosmic ray propagation model

Xing-Jian Lv, Xiao-Jun Bi, Kun Fang +2

The positron excess in cosmic rays has stimulated a lot of interests in the last decade. The dark matter origin of the extra positrons has attracted great attention. However, the $…

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★ 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.HE2023★ 8 cited

Effect of magnetic field correlation length on the gamma-ray pulsar halo morphology under anisotropic diffusion

Kun Fang, Hong-Bo Hu, Xiao-Jun Bi +1

Anisotropic diffusion is one of the potential interpretations for the morphology of the Geminga pulsar halo. It interprets the observed slow-diffusion phenomenon through a geometri…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 3 cited

Reanalysis of the Systematic Uncertainties in Cosmic-Ray Antiproton Flux

Xing-Jian Lv, Xiao-Jun Bi, Kun Fang +2

Recent studies on cosmic rays (CRs) have reported the possibility of an excess in the antiproton flux around GeV. However, the associated systematic uncertainties have impe…

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.HE2022

Gamma-ray Pulsar Halos in the Galaxy

Kun Fang

Pulsar halos are extended gamma-ray structures generated by electrons and positrons escaping from pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), considered a new class of gamma-ray sources. They are…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 8 cited

Search for relativistic fractionally charged particles in space

DAMPE Collaboration, F. Alemanno, C. Altomare +148

More than a century after the performance of the oil drop experiment, the possible existence of fractionally charged particles FCP still remains unsettled. The search for FCPs is c…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 11 cited

Can the Production Cross-Section Uncertainties Explain the Cosmic Fluorine Anomaly?

Meng-Jie Zhao, Xiao-Jun Bi, Kun Fang

The stable secondary-to-primary flux ratios of cosmic rays (CRs), represented by the boron-to-carbon ratio (B/C), are the main probes of the Galactic CR propagation. However, the f…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 8 cited

Features of the gamma-ray pulsar halo HESS J1831098

Kun Fang, Shao-Qiang Xi, Li-Zhuo Bao +2

Gamma-ray pulsar halos are ideal indicators of cosmic-ray propagation in localized regions of the Galaxy and electron injection from pulsar wind nebulae. HESS~J1831098 is a cand…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 9 cited

Interpretation of the puzzling gamma-ray spectrum of the Geminga halo

Kun Fang, Xiao-Jun Bi

The gamma-ray halo around Geminga is formed owing to the slow diffusion of the electrons released by the Geminga PWN. The latest HAWC and HESS observations exhibit complex features…

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★ 22 cited

Observations of Forbush Decreases of cosmic ray electrons and positrons with the Dark Matter Particle Explorer

Francesca Alemanno, Qi An, Philipp Azzarello +146

The Forbush Decrease (FD) represents the rapid decrease of the intensities of charged particles accompanied with the coronal mass ejections (CMEs) or high-speed streams from corona…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 27 cited

Constraints on the spatially dependent cosmic-ray propagation model from Bayesian Analysis

Meng-Jie Zhao, Kun Fang, Xiao-Jun Bi

The energy spectra of primary and secondary cosmic rays (CR) generally harden at several hundreds of GeV, which can be naturally interpreted by propagation effects. We adopt a spat…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 89 cited

Potential PeVatron supernova remnant G106.3+2.7 seen in the highest-energy gamma rays

M. Amenomori, Y. W. Bao, X. J. Bi +92

Cosmic rays (protons and other atomic nuclei) are believed to gain energies of petaelectronvolts (PeV) and beyond at astrophysical particle accelerators called 'PeVatrons' inside o…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 15 cited

Self-consistent interpretations of the multi-wavelength gamma-ray spectrum of LHAASO J06213755

Kun Fang, Shao-Qiang Xi, Xiao-Jun Bi

LHAASO J06213755 is a TeV gamma-ray halo newly identified by LHAASO-KM2A. It is likely to be generated by electrons trapped in a slow-diffusion zone around PSR J06223749 thro…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 27 cited

Gamma-ray Observation of the Cygnus Region in the 100 TeV Energy Region

M. Amenomori, Y. W. Bao, X. J. Bi +110

We report observations of gamma-ray emissions with energies in the 100 TeV energy region from the Cygnus region in our Galaxy. Two sources are significantly detected in the directi…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 25 cited

Slow diffusion is necessary to explain the gamma-ray pulsar halos

Li-Zhuo Bao, Kun Fang, Xiao-Jun Bi +1

It was suggested that the -ray halo around Geminga might not be interpreted by slow-diffusion. If the ballistic regime of electron/positron propagation is considered, the Geming…

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★ 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.HE2021★ 166 cited

Measurement of the cosmic ray helium energy spectrum from 70 GeV to 80 TeV with the DAMPE space mission

F. Alemanno, Q. An, P. Azzarello +142

The measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic ray helium nuclei from 70 GeV to 80 TeV using 4.5 years of data recorded by the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is reported i…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 234 cited

First Detection of sub-PeV Diffuse Gamma Rays from the Galactic Disk: Evidence for Ubiquitous Galactic Cosmic Rays beyond PeV Energies

M. Amenomori, Y. W. Bao, X. J. Bi +92

We report, for the first time, the long-awaited detection of diffuse gamma rays with energies between 100 TeV and 1 PeV in the Galactic disk. Particularly, all gamma rays above 398…