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Discovery of a new $\gamma$-ray source LHAASO J0341+5258 with emission up to 200TeV
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- We report the discovery of a new unidentified extended $\gamma$-ray source in the Galactic plane named LHAASO J0341+5258 with a pre-trial significance of 8.2 standard deviations above 25 TeV. The best fit position is R.A.$=55.34^{\circ}\pm0.11^{\circ}$ and Dec$=52.97^{\circ}\pm0.07^{\circ}$. The angular size of LHAASO J0341+5258 is $0.29^\circ \pm 0.06^\circ_{stat} \pm0.02^\circ_{sys}$. The flux above 25 TeV is about $20\%$ of the flux of Crab Nebula. Although a power-law fit of the spectrum from 10 TeV to 200 TeV with the photon index $\alpha=2.98 \pm 0.19_{stat} \pm 0.02_{sys}$ is not excluded, the LHAASO data together with the flux upper limit at 10 GeV set by the Fermi LAT observation, indicate a noticeable steepening of an initially hard power-law spectrum %($\alpha \leq 1.75$) spectrum with a cutoff at $\approx 50$ TeV. We briefly discuss the origin of UHE gamma-rays. The lack of an energetic pulsar and a young SNR inside or in the vicinity of LHAASO J0341+5258 challenge, but do not exclude both the leptonic and hadronic scenarios of gamma-ray production.<br />Comment: Accepted by APJL
- Subjects :
- Physics
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Hadron
Gamma ray
Flux
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galactic plane
Crab Nebula
Pulsar
Space and Planetary Science
Angular diameter
High Energy Physics::Experiment
Supernova remnant
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ebe16fa9adc5e0ebafcc78db53c1509e