{"id":171813,"date":"2023-09-11T22:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T03:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/mysterious-ultra-high-energy-source-investigated-by-astronomers"},"modified":"2023-09-11T22:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T03:22:46","slug":"mysterious-ultra-high-energy-source-investigated-by-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/mysterious-ultra-high-energy-source-investigated-by-astronomers","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious ultra-high energy source investigated by astronomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-ultra-high-energy-source-investigated-by-astronomers3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers from the University of Maryland and the Michigan Technological University, have inspected a mysterious ultra-high energy gamma-ray source known as LHAASO J2108+5157. Results of the study, published August 31 on the pre-print server <i>arXiv<\/i>, could help us unveil the true nature of this source.<\/p>\n<p>Sources emitting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gamma+radiation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gamma radiation<\/a> with photon energies between 100 GeV and 100 TeV are called very-high energy (VHE) gamma-ray sources, while those with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photon+energies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photon energies<\/a> above 0.1 PeV are known as ultra-high energy (UHE) <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gamma-ray+sources\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gamma-ray sources<\/a>. The nature of these sources is still not well understood; therefore, astronomers are constantly searching for new objects of this type to characterize them, which could shed more light on their properties in general.<\/p>\n<p>A team of astronomers led by University of Maryland\u2019s Sajan Kumar decided to take a closer look at one such UHE gamma-ray source designated LHAASO J2108+5157. It is a point-like source with an extension less than 0.39 degrees, known to be associated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molecular+cloud\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecular cloud<\/a> [MML2017]4607\u2014located some 10,700 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+years\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light years<\/a> away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers from the University of Maryland and the Michigan Technological University, have inspected a mysterious ultra-high energy gamma-ray source known as LHAASO J2108+5157. Results of the study, published August 31 on the pre-print server arXiv, could help us unveil the true nature of this source. Sources emitting gamma radiation with photon energies between 100 GeV [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}