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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Amenomori, M
• 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
• Gou, Q B
• Guo, Y Q
• He, H H
• He, Z T
• Hibino, K
• Hotta, N
• Hu, Haibing
• Hu, H B
• Huang, J
• Jia, H Y
• Jiang, L
• Jin, H B
• Kajino, F
• Kasahara, K
• Katayose, Y
• Kato, C
• Kato, S
• Kawata, K
• Kozai, M
• Labaciren
• Le, G M
• Li, A F
• Li, H J
• Li, W J
• Lin, Y H
• Liu, B
• Liu, C
• Liu, J S
• Liu, M Y
• Lou, Y-Q
• Lu, H
• Meng, X R
• Mitsui, H
• Munakata, K
• Nakamura, Y
• Nanjo, H
• Nishizawa, M
• Ohnishi, M
• Ohta, I
• Ozawa, S
• Qian, X L
• Qu, X B
• Saito, T
• Sakata, M
• Sako, T K
• Sengoku, Y
• Shao, J
• Shibata, M
• Shiomi, A
• Sugimoto, H
• Takita, M
• Tan, Y H
• Tateyama, N
• Torii, S
• Tsuchiya, H
• Udo, S
• Wang, H
• Wu, H R
• Xue, L
• Yagisawa, K
• Yamamoto, Y
• Yang, Z
• Yuan, A F
• Zhai, L M
• Zhang, H M
• Zhang, J L
• Zhang, X
• Zhang, X Y
• Zhang, Y
• Zhang, Yi
• Zhang, Ying
• Zhaxisangzhu
• Zhou, X X

Titel

First Detection of Photons with Energy beyond 100 TeV from an Astrophysical Source

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 2019-08, Vol.123 (5), p.051101-051101, Article 051101

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Physical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

American Physical Society Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We report on the highest energy photons from the Crab Nebula observed by the Tibet air shower array with the underground water-Cherenkov-type muon detector array. Based on the criterion of a muon number measured in an air shower, we successfully suppress 99.92% of the cosmic-ray background events with energies E>100  TeV. As a result, we observed 24 photonlike events with E>100  TeV against 5.5 background events, which corresponds to a 5.6σ statistical significance. This is the first detection of photons with E>100  TeV from an astrophysical source.