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Discovery of Gamma Rays from the Quiescent Sun with HAWC
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics. Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9888-0971
Number of Authors: 932023 (English)In: Physical Review Letters, ISSN 0031-9007, E-ISSN 1079-7114, Vol. 131, no 5, article id 051201Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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We report the first detection of a TeV 7-ray flux from the solar disk (6.3a), 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)-7, with A = (1.6 & PLUSMN; 0.3) x 10-12 TeV-1 cm-2 s-1 and 7 = 3.62 & PLUSMN; 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.

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2023. Vol. 131, no 5, article id 051201
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-229867DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.051201ISI: 001057934200005PubMedID: 37595214Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85167873938OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-229867DiVA, id: diva2:1863337
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