{"id":192753,"date":"2024-07-10T20:28:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T01:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/study-investigates-the-nature-of-very-high-energy-gamma-ray-source-tev-j20324130"},"modified":"2024-07-10T20:28:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T01:28:34","slug":"study-investigates-the-nature-of-very-high-energy-gamma-ray-source-tev-j20324130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/study-investigates-the-nature-of-very-high-energy-gamma-ray-source-tev-j20324130","title":{"rendered":"Study investigates the nature of very-high energy gamma-ray source TeV J2032+4130"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-investigates-the-nature-of-very-high-energy-gamma-ray-source-tev-j203241303.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, an international team of astronomers has observed a very-high energy gamma-ray source designated TeV J2032+4130. Results of the observational campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2407.02879\" target=\"_blank\">presented<\/a> July 3 on the preprint server <i>arXiv<\/i>, provide crucial information regarding the nature of this source.<\/p>\n<p>Sources emitting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gamma+radiation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gamma radiation<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photon+energies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photon energies<\/a> between 100 GeV and 100 TeV are called very-high energy (VHE) gamma-ray sources, while those with photon energies above 0.1 PeV are known as ultra-high energy (UHE) gamma-ray sources. 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>TeV J2032+4130 was identified in 2005 by the High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy (HEGRA) experiment as the first VHE gamma-ray source in the TeV range with no lower-energy counterpart. Previous observations of TeV J2032+4130 have revealed that it consists of two sources, namely HAWC J2030+409 and HAWC J2031+415, which is coincident with a pulsar wind nebula (PWN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, an international team of astronomers has observed a very-high energy gamma-ray source designated TeV J2032+4130. Results of the observational campaign, presented July 3 on the preprint server arXiv, provide crucial information regarding the nature of this source. Sources emitting gamma radiation with photon energies between 100 GeV and [\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-192753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192753","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=192753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}