Highlights
2024 Year Highlights
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292024-09LHAASO Realize Daily Monitoring of Interplanetary Magnetic Field between Earth and Sun using Galactic Cosmic RaysThe Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has realized daily monitoring of the interplanetary magnetic field between the Earth and the Sun for the first time. This was accomplished by precisely measuring the subtle changes ...More
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252024-07Chinese Scientists Discover Highest-energy Gamma-ray Line in the UniverseA research group led by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently reported their discovery of the gamma-ray line up to 37 million electron-volts from an extremely bright gamma-ray burst...More
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192024-07LHAASO Reveals Key Evidence of Cosmic Ray Acceleration Limit in W51 Complex for First TimeThe Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) officially released the precise measurements of high-energy gamma radiation from the W51 complex, confirming it as a cosmic-ray accelerator boosting particles up to so-called ultra-...More
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292024-03LHAASO Discovers Elbow-like Feature in Mean Logarithmic Mass Spectrum of Ultra-high-energy Cosmic RaysThe Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has accurately measured the cosmic ray all-particle energy spectrum and the mean logarithmic mass in the range of 0.3–30 peta-electronvolts (PeV). It has also discovered an “elbow...More
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042024-03First LHAASO Catalog Officially PublishedThe Large High-Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) officially published its first catalog of gamma-ray sources in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series on Feb. 27. The first LHAASO catalog contains 90 very-high-energy (VHE)...More
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262024-02LHAASO Discovers Giant Ultra-high-energy Gamma-ray Bubble, Identifying the First Super PeVatronThe Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has discovered a giant ultra-high-energy gamma-ray bubble structure in the Cygnus star-forming region, which is the first time in human history that the origin of cosmic rays with...More