2024/01/02 by LHAASO collaboration, LHAASO Collaboration · 3 citations
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2401.01038
openalex publication_date 2024/01/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The full array of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has been in operation since July 2021. For its kilometer-square array (KM2A), we have optimized the selection criteria for very high and ultra-high energy γ-rays, using the data collected from August 2021 to August 2022, resulting in an improvement on significance of about 15% compared with previous cuts. With the implementation of these new selection criteria, the angular resolution is also significantly improved by approximately 10% at tens of TeV. Other aspects of the full KM2A array performance, such as the pointing error are also calibrated using the Crab Nebula. The resulting energy spectrum of the Crab Nebula in the energy range of 10-1000 TeV can be well fitted by a log-parabola model, which is consistent with the previous results from LHAASO and other experiments.