Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Quantitative constraint on the source contribution to the Galactic diffuse gamma rays detected by the Tibet air shower array |
| Authors: |
Kato, S., Chen, D., Huang, J., Kawashima, T., Kawata, K., Mizuno, A., Ohnishi, M., Sako, T., Sako, T. K., Takita, M., Yokoe, Y. |
| Publication Year: |
2023 |
| Collection: |
Astrophysics |
| Subject Terms: |
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| More Details: |
The fraction of the contribution from yet-unresolved gamma-ray sources in the Galactic diffuse gamma rays observed by the Tibet air shower array is an important key to interpreting recent multi-messenger observations. This paper shows a surprising fact: no Tibet diffuse events above 398TeV come from the gamma-ray sources newly detected above 100 TeV by LHAASO. Based on this observational fact, the contribution of sources unresolved by LHAASO to the Tibet diffuse events is estimated to be less than 31% above 398TeV with a 99% confidence level. Our result shows that unresolved sources make only a sub-dominant contribution to the Tibet diffuse events above 398 TeV and a large fraction of the events are truly a diffusive nature.
Comment: Calculations in Eq-(2) should have used the probability p that a Tibet diffuse gamma-ray event is of unresolved-source origin, but the parameter p in Eq-(2) is the probability that a gamma-ray event above 398 TeV from a source marginally detected by LHAASO is detected by the Tibet. This mistake leads to a wrong estimate of the limit on the source fraction to the Tibet diffuse gamma-ray events |
| Document Type: |
Working Paper |
| Access URL: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16078 |
| Accession Number: |
edsarx.2309.16078 |
| Database: |
arXiv |
