Discovery of Gamma Rays from the Quiescent Sun with HAWC.

Journal

Physical review letters

ISSN: 1079-7114

Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett

Pays: United States

ID NLM: 0401141

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
04 Aug 2023

Historique:

received: 06 12 2022

revised: 27 01 2023

accepted: 23 06 2023

medline: 18 8 2023

pubmed: 18 8 2023

entrez: 18 8 2023

Statut: ppublish

Résumé

We report the first detection of a TeV γ-ray flux from the solar disk (6.3σ), based on 6.1 years of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory. The 0.5-2.6 TeV spectrum is well fit by a power law, dN/dE=A(E/1 TeV)^{-γ}, with A=(1.6±0.3)×10^{-12} TeV^{-1} cm^{-2} s^{-1} and γ=3.62±0.14. The flux shows a strong indication of anticorrelation with solar activity. These results extend the bright, hard GeV emission from the disk observed with Fermi-LAT, seemingly due to hadronic Galactic cosmic rays showering on nuclei in the solar atmosphere. However, current theoretical models are unable to explain the details of how solar magnetic fields shape these interactions. HAWC's TeV detection thus deepens the mysteries of the solar-disk emission.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.051201 PMID: 37595214

pubmed: 37595214

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.051201

doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

051201

Auteurs

A Albert (A)

Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA.

R Alfaro (R)

Instituto de F'isica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

C Alvarez (C)

Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México.

J C Arteaga-Velázquez (JC)

Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico.

D Avila Rojas (D)

Instituto de F'isica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

H A Ayala Solares (HA)

Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.

R Babu (R)

Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA.

E Belmont-Moreno (E)

Instituto de F'isica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

C Brisbois (C)

Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

K S Caballero-Mora (KS)

Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México.

T Capistrán (T)

Instituto de Astronom'ia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

A Carramiñana (A)

Instituto Nacional de Astrof'isica, Óptica y Electrónica, Puebla, Mexico.

S Casanova (S)

Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej im Henryka Niewodniczanskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk, IFJ-PAN, Krakow, Poland.

O Chaparro-Amaro (O)

Centro de Investigaci'on en Computaci'on, Instituto Polit'ecnico Nacional, M'exico City, M'exico.

U Cotti (U)

Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico.

J Cotzomi (J)

Facultad de Ciencias F'isico Matemáticas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.

S Coutiño de León (S)

Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.

E De la Fuente (E)

Departamento de F'isica, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactase Ingenierias, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico.

R Diaz Hernandez (R)

Instituto Nacional de Astrof'isica, Óptica y Electrónica, Puebla, Mexico.

B L Dingus (BL)

Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA.

Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

M A DuVernois (MA)

Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.

M Durocher (M)

Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA.

J C Díaz-Vélez (JC)

Departamento de F'isica, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactase Ingenierias, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico.

R W Ellsworth (RW)

Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

K Engel (K)

Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

C Espinoza (C)

Instituto de F'isica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

K L Fan (KL)

Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

K Fang (K)

Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.

M Fernández Alonso (M)

Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.

H Fleischhack (H)

Department of Physics, Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20064.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.

Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771.

N Fraija (N)

Instituto de Astronom'ia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

J A García-González (JA)

Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Avenue Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico, 64849.

F Garfias (F)

Instituto de Astronom'ia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

M M González (MM)

Instituto de Astronom'ia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

J A Goodman (JA)

Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

J P Harding (JP)

Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA.

S Hernandez (S)

Instituto de F'isica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

J Hinton (J)

Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.

D Huang (D)

Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA.

F Hueyotl-Zahuantitla (F)

Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México.

P Hüntemeyer (P)

Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA.

A Iriarte (A)

Instituto de Astronom'ia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

V Joshi (V)

Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.

S Kaufmann (S)

Universidad Politecnica de Pachuca, Pachuca, Hgo, Mexico.

J Lee (J)

University of Seoul, Seoul, Rep. of Korea.

J T Linnemann (JT)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.

A L Longinotti (AL)

Instituto de Astronom'ia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

G Luis-Raya (G)

Universidad Politecnica de Pachuca, Pachuca, Hgo, Mexico.

K Malone (K)

Space Science and Applications Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA.

O Martinez (O)

Facultad de Ciencias F'isico Matemáticas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.

J Martínez-Castro (J)

Centro de Investigaci'on en Computaci'on, Instituto Polit'ecnico Nacional, M'exico City, M'exico.

J A Matthews (JA)

Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

P Miranda-Romagnoli (P)

Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Pachuca, Mexico.

J A Morales-Soto (JA)

Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico.

E Moreno (E)

Facultad de Ciencias F'isico Matemáticas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.

M Mostafá (M)

Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.

A Nayerhoda (A)

Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej im Henryka Niewodniczanskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk, IFJ-PAN, Krakow, Poland.

L Nellen (L)

Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

M U Nisa (MU)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.

R Noriega-Papaqui (R)

Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Pachuca, Mexico.

L Olivera-Nieto (L)

Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.

N Omodei (N)

Department of Physics, Stanford University: Stanford, CA 94305-4060, USA.

Y Pérez Araujo (Y)

Instituto de Astronom'ia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

E G Pérez-Pérez (EG)

Universidad Politecnica de Pachuca, Pachuca, Hgo, Mexico.

C D Rho (CD)

Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, South Korea.

D Rosa-González (D)

Instituto Nacional de Astrof'isica, Óptica y Electrónica, Puebla, Mexico.

E Ruiz-Velasco (E)

Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.

H Salazar (H)

Facultad de Ciencias F'isico Matemáticas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.

D Salazar-Gallegos (D)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.

A Sandoval (A)

Instituto de F'isica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

M Schneider (M)

Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

J Serna-Franco (J)

Instituto de F'isica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

A J Smith (AJ)

Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

Y Son (Y)

University of Seoul, Seoul, Rep. of Korea.

R W Springer (RW)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

O Tibolla (O)

Universidad Politecnica de Pachuca, Pachuca, Hgo, Mexico.

K Tollefson (K)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.

I Torres (I)

Instituto Nacional de Astrof'isica, Óptica y Electrónica, Puebla, Mexico.

R Torres-Escobedo (R)

Tsung-Dao Lee Institute & School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.

R Turner (R)

Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA.

F Ureña-Mena (F)

Instituto Nacional de Astrof'isica, Óptica y Electrónica, Puebla, Mexico.

E Varela (E)

Facultad de Ciencias F'isico Matemáticas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.

L Villaseñor (L)

Facultad de Ciencias F'isico Matemáticas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.

X Wang (X)

Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA.

I J Watson (IJ)

University of Seoul, Seoul, Rep. of Korea.

E Willox (E)

Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

S Yun-Cárcamo (S)

Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

H Zhou (H)

Tsung-Dao Lee Institute & School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.

C de León (C)

Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico.

J F Beacom (JF)

Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.

Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.

Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.

T Linden (T)

The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.

K C Y Ng (KCY)

Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, China.

A H G Peter (AHG)

Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.

Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.

Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.

School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.

B Zhou (B)

William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.

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