Isotropy of cosmic rays beyond $10^{20}$ eV favors their heavy mass composition

Autor: Telescope Array Collaboration, Abbasi, R. U., Abe, Y., Abu-Zayyad, T., Allen, M., Arai, Y., Arimura, R., Barcikowski, E., Belz, J. W., Bergman, D. R., Blake, S. A., Buckland, I., Cheon, B. G., Chikawa, M., Fujii, T., Fujisue, K., Fujita, K., Fujiwara, R., Fukushima, M., Furlich, G., Globus, N., Gonzalez, R., Hanlon, W., Hayashida, N., He, H., Hibi, R., Hibino, K., Higuchi, R., Honda, K., Ikeda, D., Inoue, N., Ishii, T., Ito, H., Ivanov, D., Iwasaki, A., Jeong, H. M., Jeong, S., Jui, C. C. H., Kadota, K., Kakimoto, F., Kalashev, O., Kasahara, K., Kasami, S., Kawakami, S., Kawata, K., Kharuk, I., Kido, E., Kim, H. B., Kim, J. H., Kim, S. W., Kimura, Y., Komae, I., Kuzmin, V., Kuznetsov, M., Kwon, Y. J., Lee, K. H., Lubsandorzhiev, B., Lundquist, J. P., Matsumiya, H., Matsuyama, T., Matthews, J. N., Mayta, R., Mizuno, K., Murakami, M., Myers, I., Nagataki, S., Nakai, K., Nakamura, T., Nishio, E., Nonaka, T., Oda, H., Ogio, S., Onishi, M., Ohoka, H., Okazaki, N., Oku, Y., Okuda, T., Omura, Y., Ono, M., Oshima, A., Oshima, H., Ozawa, S., Park, I. H., Park, K. Y., Potts, M., Pshirkov, M. S., Remington, J., Rodriguez, D. C., Rott, C., Rubtsov, G. I., Ryu, D., Sagawa, H., Saito, R., Sakaki, N., Sako, T., Sakurai, N., Sato, D., Sato, K., Sato, S., Sekino, K., Shah, P. D., Shibata, N., Shibata, T., Shikita, J., Shimodaira, H., Shin, B. K., Shin, H. S., Shinto, D., Smith, J. D., Sokolsky, P., Stokes, B. T., Stroman, T. A., Takagi, Y., Takahashi, K., Takamura, M., Takeda, M., Takeishi, R., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tameda, Y., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Tanoue, Y., Thomas, S. B., Thomson, G. B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Tokuno, H., Tomida, T., Troitsky, S., Tsuda, R., Tsunesada, Y., Udo, S., Urban, F., Warren, D., Wong, T., Yamazaki, K., Yashiro, K., Yoshida, F., Zhezher, Y., Zundel, Z.

We report an estimation of the injected mass composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) at energies higher than 10 EeV. The composition is inferred from an energy-dependent sky distribution of UHECR events observed by the Telescope Array s

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19287

Observation of Declination Dependence in the Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum

Autor: The Telescope Array Collaboration, Abbasi, R. U., Abu-Zayyad, T., Allen, M., Belz, J. W., Bergman, D. R., Buckland, I., Campbell, W., Cheon, B. G., Endo, K., Fedynitch, A., Fujii, T., Fujisue, K., Fujita, K., Fukushima, M., Furlich, G., Gerber, Z., Globus, N., Hanlon, W., Hayashida, N., He, H., Hibino, K., Higuchi, R., Ikeda, D., Ishii, T., Ivanov, D., Jeong, S., Jui, C. C. H., Kadota, K., Kakimoto, F., Kalashev, O., Kasahara, K., Kawachi, Y., Kawata, K., Kharuk, I., Kido, E., Kim, H. B., Kim, J. H., Kim, S. W., Kobo, R., Komae, I., Komatsu, K., Komori, K., Koyama, C., Kudenko, M., Kuroiwa, M., Kusumori, Y., Kuznetsov, M., Kwon, Y. J., Lee, K. H., Lee, M. J., Lubsandorzhiev, B., Lundquist, J. P., Matsuzawa, A., Matthews, J. A., Matthews, J. N., Mizuno, K., Mori, M., Murakami, M., Nagataki, S., Nakahara, M., Nakamura, T., Nakayama, T., Nakayama, Y., Nonaka, T., Ogio, S., Ohoka, H., Okazaki, N., Onishi, M., Oshima, A., Oshima, H., Ozawa, S., Park, I. H., Park, K. Y., Potts, M., Przybylak, M., Pshirkov, M. S., Remington, J., Rott, C., Rubtsov, G. I., Ryu, D., Sagawa, H., Sakaki, N., Sakamoto, R., Sako, T., Sakurai, N., Sakurai, S., Sato, D., Sato, S., Sekino, K., Shibata, T., Shikita, J., Shimodaira, H., Shin, B. K., Shin, H. S., Shinozaki, K., Smith, J. D., Sokolsky, P., Stokes, B. T., Stroman, T. A., Takagi, Y., Takahashi, K., Takeda, M., Takeishi, R., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tameda, Y., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Thomas, S. B., Thomson, G. B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Tomida, T., Troitsky, S., Tsunesada, Y., Udo, S., Urban, F., Vaiman, I. A., Vrábel, M., Warren, D., Yamazaki, K., Zhezher, Y., Zundel, Z., Zvirzdin, J.

We report on an observation of the difference between northern and southern skies of the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray energy spectrum with a significance of ${\sim}8\sigma$. We use measurements from the two largest experiments$\unicode{x2014}$the Tele

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08612

On the source contribution to the Galactic diffuse gamma rays above 398 TeV detected by the Tibet AS{\gamma} experiment

Autor: Kato, S., Chen, D., Huang, J., Kawashima, T., Kawata, K., Mizuno, A., Ohnishi, M., Sako, T., Sako, T. K., Takita, M., Yokoe, Y.

Potential contribution from gamma-ray sources to the Galactic diffuse gamma rays observed above 100 TeV (sub-PeV energy range) by the Tibet AS{\gamma} experiment is an important key to interpreting recent multi-messenger observations. This paper reve

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13120

Nobeyama Cygnus-X Survey: Physical Properties of C$^{18}$O clumps in DR-6(W), DR-9 and DR-13S regions

Autor: Toledano--Juárez, I., de la Fuente, E., Kawata, K., Trinidad, M. A., Tafoya, D., Yamagishi, M., Takekawa, S., Ohnishi, M., Nishimura, A., Kato, S., Sako, T., Takita, M., Yadav, R. K.

Publikováno v: Proceedings of Science, 2023, 631, 1-8. https://pos.sissa.it/444/

Cygnus-X is considered a region of interest for high-energy astrophysics, since the Cygnus OB2 association has been confirmed as a PeVatron in the Cygnus cocoon. In this research note, we present new high-resolution (16'') $^{12,13}$CO(J=1$\rightarro

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15807

Observation of gamma rays up to 320 TeV from the middle-aged TeV pulsar wind nebula HESS J1849$-$000

Autor: Amenomori, M., Asano, S., Bao, Y. W., Bi, X. J., Chen, D., Chen, T. L., Chen, W. Y., Chen, Xu, Chen, Y., Cirennima, Cui, S. W., Danzengluobu, Ding, L. K., Fang, J. H., Fang, K., Feng, C. F., Feng, Zhaoyang, Feng, Z. Y., Gao, Qi, Gomi, A., Gou, Q. B., Guo, Y. Q., Guo, Y. Y., Hayashi, Y., He, H. H., He, Z. T., Hibino, K., Hotta, N., Hu, Haibing, Hu, H. B., Hu, K. Y., Huang, J., Jia, H. Y., Jiang, L., Jiang, P., Jin, H. B., Kasahara, K., Katayose, Y., Kato, C., Kato, S., Kawahara, I., Kawashima, T., Kawata, K., Kozai, M., Kurashige, D., Labaciren, Le, G. M., Li, A. F., Li, H. J., Li, W. J., Li, Y., Lin, Y. H., Liu, B., Liu, C., Liu, J. S., Liu, L. Y., Liu, M. Y., Liu, W., Lu, H., Meng, X. R., Meng, Y., Munakata, K., Nagaya, K., Nakamura, Y., Nakazawa, Y., Nanjo, H., Ning, C. C., Nishizawa, M., Noguchi, R., Ohnishi, M., Okukawa, S., Ozawa, S., Qian, X., Qian, X. L., Qu, X. B., Saito, T., Sakakibara, Y., Sakata, M., Sako, T., Sako, T. K., Sasaki, T., Shao, J., Shibata, M., Shiomi, A., Sugimoto, H., Takano, W., Takita, M., Tan, Y. H., Tateyama, N., Torii, S., Tsuchiya, H., Udo, S., Wang, H., Wang, S. F., Wang, Y. P., Wangdui, Wu, H. R., Wu, Q., Xu, J. L., Xue, L., Yang, Z., Yao, Y. Q., Yin, J., Yokoe, Y., Yu, Y. L., Yuan, A. F., Zhai, L. M., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, X., Zhang, X. Y., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Yi, Zhang, Ying, Zhao, S. P., Zhaxisangzhu, Zhou, X. X., Zou, Y. H.

Gamma rays from HESS J1849$-$000, 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 gamma rays reaches $4.0\, \sigma$ and $4.4\, \sigma$ levels above 25 T

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13781