It is widely believed that Galactic Cosmic Rays (CR) are accelerated in Supernova Remnants (SNRs) through the process of diffusive shock acceleration. In this scenario, particles should be accelerated up to energies around 1 PeV (the so-called knee) and emit gamma rays. To test this hypothesis precise measurements of the gamma-ray spectra of young SNRs at TeV energies are needed. Among the already known SNRs, Cassiopea A (Cas A) appears as one of the best candidates for such studies, because it is relatively young (about 300 years) and it has been largely studied in radio and X-ray bands, which constrains essential parameters for testing emission models. Here we present the results of a multi-year campaign of Cas A observations with the MAGIC Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes between December 2014 and October 2016, for a total of 158 hours of good-quality data. We obtained a spectrum of the source from $\sim$100GeV to $\sim$10TeV and fit it assuming it follows a power-law distribution, with and without exponential cut-off. We found, for the first time in the Very High Energy regime (VHE, $\gtrsim$50GeV), observational evidence for the present of a cut-off in Cas A: an exponential cut-off at about 3.5 TeV is preferred with 4.6 $σ$ significance over a pure power-law scenario. Assuming that TeV gamma rays are produced by hadronic processes and that there is no significant cosmic ray diffusion, this indicates that Cas A is not a PeVatron (PeV accelerator) at its present age.
CTAO Simulations for Potential PeVatron Candidates
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology(塔帕尔工程技术学院);Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab(巴黎萨克雷大学,法国国家科学研究中心/欧洲核子研究委员会,IJCLab);Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für materialien und energie(柏林亥姆霍兹材料与能源中心)
Measuring the Astrophysical Galactic Plane Neutrino Flux and Searching for Galactic PeVatrons using the IceCube Multi-Flavor Astrophysical Neutrino Sample
Magnetic rigidity reveals the PeVatron acceleration region in SS 433
School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学物理与天文学院);State Key Laboratory of Radio Astronomy and Technology, Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, CAS(中国科学院新疆天文台射电天文与技术国家重点实验室);School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学天文学与空间科学学院);Konkoly Observatory, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences(孔科利天文台,匈牙利研究与教育网络天文学与地球科学研究中心);Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Radio Astrophysics, Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, CAS(中国科学院新疆天文台射电天体物理学新疆重点实验室)
New Hard X-Ray and Multiwavelength Study of the PeVatron Candidate PWN G0.9+0.1 in the Galactic Center Region
Università di Bologna(博洛尼亚大学);INAF - Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello spazio di Bologna(意大利国家天体物理研究所博洛尼亚天文与空间科学观测站);Department of Astronomy and Space Science, Chungbuk National University(忠北国立大学天文与空间科学系);NASA Goddard Space Flight Center(美国宇航局戈达德太空飞行中心);New York University Abu Dhabi(阿布扎比纽约大学);Kavli Institute For Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(麻省理工学院卡弗里天体物理学与空间研究研究所);Department of Physics, University of Tokyo(东京大学物理学系)
MAGIC是从地面探测50 GeV - 50 TeV能量范围内银河伽马射线天空的主要仪器之一。它由两个17米直径的成像大气切伦科夫望远镜组成,位于加那利群岛拉帕尔马的Roque de los Muchachos天文台。由于其出色的灵敏度,MAGIC对不同类型的银河系天体进行了相关研究。其中包括TeV能量的蟹状星云脉冲星、超新星遗迹仙后座A的光谱截止、LSI +61 303双星系统的超轨道变率、微类星体的搜寻、银河系中心的多年观测以及对未知HAWC源的后续研究。在许多情况下,这些观测结果挑战了我们对潜在发射机制的理解。在这里,我们回顾了MAGIC对这些星系源观测的最新结果。
Search for an extended emission around blazars with the MAGIC telescope
来自河外源的极高能量伽马射线可以与星系际辐射场相互作用。这个过程可能会导致电磁级联,其循环如下:产生电子-正电子对,然后由于逆康普顿散射产生次级伽马射线。由于电子和正电子在星系际磁场中会被散射,在某些条件下,它们的辐射可能会重新导向观测者。因此,我们可以预期,二次伽马射线发射可能会在源周围产生明显的扩展晕。MAGIC是一台成像大气切伦科夫望远镜,位于加那利群岛的拉帕尔马,Roque de los Muchachos天文台(2200 m.a.s.l)。利用MAGIC望远镜的专用蒙特卡罗模拟,研究了$1^\circ$直径范围内的各种源尺寸和扩展发射轮廓。我们目前的研究结果的一个可能的扩展发射Mrk 421和Mrk 501完成的MAGIC望远镜。
Measurement of the Iron Spectrum with the MAGIC Telescopes
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and Dpto. de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna(加那利天体物理研究所和拉古纳大学天体物理学系);Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT)(能源、环境和技术研究中心)
本研究利用 MAGIC 望远镜的直接切伦科夫技术识别铁核空气簇射,以在数 TeV 以上能区弥补天基探测器统计不足,测量铁宇宙线能谱。
Using SKA-Low to Detect PeV Gamma-rays from Galactic Sources
Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院紫金山天文台);University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);University of Manchester(曼彻斯特大学);Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)(布鲁塞尔自由大学);Radboud University Nijmegen(奈梅亨拉德堡德大学);Curtin University(科廷大学);University of Groningen(格罗宁根大学);Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON)(荷兰射电天文研究所);Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)(卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院);Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur(坎普尔印度理工学院);Khalifa University(哈利法大学);Can Tho University(芹苳大学);Nanjing University(南京大学);Xidian University(西安电子科技大学);Nagoya University(名古屋大学)
耀变体是一类活动星系核,其特征是相对论性喷流(喷流)朝向视线方向,是公认的河外TeV $γ$射线发射源。自2006年以来,MAGIC望远镜定期观测到三颗TeV亮耀变体Markarian(Mrk)421、Mrk 501和1 ES 1959+650,单次曝光时间为30至60分钟。MAGIC的灵敏度允许为每个这样的观测建立一个蟹状星云通量的30%的通量水平。在Mrk 421的情况下,在不同的时间尺度和X射线/TeV的排放量之间的高度相关性强通量的变化已被观察到。此外,还显示了2007/8年Mrk 501和1 ES 1959 +650光变曲线的初步测量结果。