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Indirect detection of gamma rays with ground-based observatories is currently the most sensitive experimental approach to characterize the gamma-ray sky at energies $>0.1$\,TeV. Ground-based detection of gamma-rays relies on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Manel Errando , Takayuki Saito

Gamma-rays can be produced by the interaction of a relativistic jet and the matter of the stellar wind in the subclass of massive X-ray binaries known as "microquasars". The relativistic jet is ejected from the surroundings of the compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-14 G. E. Romero , S. P. Owocki , A. T. Araudo , R. Townsend , P. Benaglia

Several cosmic ray experiments have measured excesses in electrons and positrons, relative to standard backgrounds, for energies from ~ 10 GeV - 1 TeV. These excesses could be due to new astrophysical sources, but an explanation in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Spencer Chang , Lisa Goodenough

Measurements of the spectrum of the fluctuations of the output current of the quadratic detector of a telescope can be used to find unresolved astronomical gravitational lenses and determine time delays between their image components. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ermanno F. Borra

Present day cosmic microwave background (CMB) studies require more accurate removal of Galactic foreground emission. In this paper, we consider a way of filtering out the diffuse Galactic fluctuations on the basis of their statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

A new SPHERE-3 telescope is being developed for cosmic rays spectrum and mass composition studies in the 5--1000 PeV energy range. Registration of extensive air showers using reflected Cherenkov light method applied in the SPHERE detector…

We study quantum fluctuations of the nucleon's parton densities by combining QCD factorization for hard processes with the notion of cross section fluctuations in soft diffraction. The fluctuations of the small-x gluon density are related…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 L. Frankfurt , M. Strikman , D. Treleani , C. Weiss

Several methods can be used to perform statistical inference of primary composition of cosmic rays measured with water Cerenkov detectors as those in use at the Pierre Auger Southern Observatory. In the present work we assess the impact of…

We introduce a new technique to constrain the line-of-sight integrated electron density of our Galactic halo $\text{DM}_\text{MW,halo}$ through analysis of the observed dispersion measure distributions of pulsars $\text{DM}_\text{pulsar}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-09 E. Platts , J. Xavier Prochaska , Casey J. Law

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is a ground-based air shower array designed to detect Cherenkov light produced in water by secondary particles from atmospheric air showers. In order to improve the sensitivity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-02 Dezhi Huang

The general aim of this work is to obtain the lateral distribution of atmospheric Cherenkov light in extensive air showers produced by different primary particles precisely by. protons, Helium, Iron, Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Calcium,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Mishev , J. Stamenov

The probability density function of the arrival time of \v{C}erenkov light on a photo-multiplier tube has been studied. This study covers light production, transmission and detection. The light production includes the light from a muon, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-01 M. de Jong , E. van Campenhout

By observing bright and compact astronomical sources while also taking data with the 183 GHz Water Vapour Radiometers, ALMA will be able to measure the `empirical' relationship between fluctuations in the phase of the astronomical signal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 Bojan Nikolic

We study changes in the $\gamma$-ray intensity at very high energies observed from selected active galactic nuclei. Publicly available data collected by Cherenkov telescopes were examined by means of a simple method utilizing solely the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-15 Stanislav Stefanik , Dalibor Nosek

This work summarizes the results presented at 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference in Pune India. Generally the aim of this work is to obtain the lateral distribution of the atmospheric Cherenkov light in extensive air showers produced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Mishev , Strashimir Mavrodiev , Jordan Stamenov

Ground-based cosmic ray experiments detect cosmic ray mainly by measuring the longitudinal and lateral distribution of secondary particles produced in the extensive air shower (EAS). The EAS of cosmic ray in the knee energy region is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-30 Feng Zhang , Hu Liu , Fengrong Zhu , Jacob Oloketuyi

In gamma-ray astronomy through Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT), the atmosphere is used as a calorimeter. Incident gamma-rays in the GeV-TeV energy range are observed through the electromagnetic showers they produce in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-02 S. Sajjad , A. Falvard

When extracting cosmological information from power spectrum measurements, we must consider the impact of super-sample density fluctuations whose wavelengths are larger than the survey scale. These modes contribute to the mean density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 Yin Li , Wayne Hu , Masahiro Takada

We discuss the quantization of sound waves in a fluid with a linear dispersion relation and calculate the quantum density fluctuations of the fluid in several cases. These include a fluid in its ground state. In this case, we discuss the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. H. Ford , N. F. Svaiter

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has revealed the existence of sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. However, identification of the sources is challenging because astrophysical neutrinos are difficult to separate from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-09 D. Rysewyk , D. Lennarz , T. DeYoung , J. Auffenberg , M. Schaufel , T. Bretz , C. Wiebusch , M. U. Nisa