TY - JOUR
T1 - HAWC J2227+610
T2 - 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021
AU - the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium
AU - Abdalla, H.
AU - Abe, H.
AU - Abe, S.
AU - Abusleme, A.
AU - Acero, F.
AU - Acharyya, A.
AU - Acín Portella, V.
AU - Ackley, K.
AU - Adam, R.
AU - Adams, C.
AU - Adhikari, S. S.
AU - Aguado-Ruesga, I.
AU - Agudo, I.
AU - Aguilera, R.
AU - Aguirre-Santaella, A.
AU - Aharonian, F.
AU - Alberdi, A.
AU - Alfaro, R.
AU - Alfaro, J.
AU - Alispach, C.
AU - Aloisio, R.
AU - Alves Batista, R.
AU - Amans, J. P.
AU - Amati, L.
AU - Amato, E.
AU - Ambrogi, L.
AU - Ambrosi, G.
AU - Ambrosio, M.
AU - Ammendola, R.
AU - Anderson, J.
AU - Anduze, M.
AU - Angüner, E. O.
AU - Antonelli, L. A.
AU - Antonuccio, V.
AU - Antoranz, P.
AU - Anutarawiramkul, R.
AU - Aragunde Gutierrez, J.
AU - Aramo, C.
AU - Araudo, A.
AU - Araya, M.
AU - Arbet-Engels, A.
AU - Arcaro, C.
AU - Arendt, V.
AU - Armand, C.
AU - Armstrong, T.
AU - Arqueros, F.
AU - Arrabito, L.
AU - Arsioli, B.
AU - Falcone, A.
AU - Murase, K.
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PY - 2022/3/18
Y1 - 2022/3/18
N2 - Recent observations of the gamma-ray source HAWC J2227+610 by Tibet AS+MD and LHAASO confirm the special interest of this source as a galactic PeVatron candidate in the northern hemisphere. HAWC J2227+610 emits Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-rays up to 500 TeV, from a region coincident with molecular clouds and significantly displaced from the nearby pulsar J2229+6114. Even if this morphology favours an hadronic origin, both leptonic or hadronic models can describe the current VHE gamma-ray emission. The morphology of the source is not well constrained by the present measurements and a better characterisation would greatly help the understanding of the underlying particle acceleration mechanisms. The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the future most sensitive Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope and, thanks to its unprecedented angular resolution, could contribute to better constrain the nature of this source. The present work investigates the potentiality of CTA to study the morphology and the spectrum of HAWC J2227+610. For this aim, the source is simulated assuming the hadronic model proposed by the Tibet AS+MD collaboration, recently fitted on multi-wavelength data, and two spatial templates associated to the source nearby molecular clouds. Different CTA layouts and observation times are considered. A 3D map based analysis shows that CTA is able to significantly detect the extension of the source and to attribute higher detection significance to the simulated molecular cloud template compared to the alternative one. CTA data does not allow to disentangle the hadronic and the leptonic emission models. However, it permits to correctly reproduce the simulated parent proton spectrum characterized by a ∼ 500 TeV cutoff.
AB - Recent observations of the gamma-ray source HAWC J2227+610 by Tibet AS+MD and LHAASO confirm the special interest of this source as a galactic PeVatron candidate in the northern hemisphere. HAWC J2227+610 emits Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-rays up to 500 TeV, from a region coincident with molecular clouds and significantly displaced from the nearby pulsar J2229+6114. Even if this morphology favours an hadronic origin, both leptonic or hadronic models can describe the current VHE gamma-ray emission. The morphology of the source is not well constrained by the present measurements and a better characterisation would greatly help the understanding of the underlying particle acceleration mechanisms. The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the future most sensitive Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope and, thanks to its unprecedented angular resolution, could contribute to better constrain the nature of this source. The present work investigates the potentiality of CTA to study the morphology and the spectrum of HAWC J2227+610. For this aim, the source is simulated assuming the hadronic model proposed by the Tibet AS+MD collaboration, recently fitted on multi-wavelength data, and two spatial templates associated to the source nearby molecular clouds. Different CTA layouts and observation times are considered. A 3D map based analysis shows that CTA is able to significantly detect the extension of the source and to attribute higher detection significance to the simulated molecular cloud template compared to the alternative one. CTA data does not allow to disentangle the hadronic and the leptonic emission models. However, it permits to correctly reproduce the simulated parent proton spectrum characterized by a ∼ 500 TeV cutoff.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85145018821
SN - 1824-8039
VL - 395
JO - Proceedings of Science
JF - Proceedings of Science
M1 - 904
Y2 - 12 July 2021 through 23 July 2021
ER -