The High Altitude Detection of Astronomical Radiation(HADAR)experiment is a refracting terrestrial telescope array based on the atmospheric Cherenkov imaging technique.It focuses the Cherenkov light emitted by extensi...The High Altitude Detection of Astronomical Radiation(HADAR)experiment is a refracting terrestrial telescope array based on the atmospheric Cherenkov imaging technique.It focuses the Cherenkov light emitted by extensive air showers through a large aperture water-lens system for observing very-high-energyγ-rays and cosmic rays.With the advantages of a large field-of-view(FOV)and low energy threshold,the HADAR experiment operates in a large-scale sky scanning mode to observe galactic sources.This study presents the prospects of using the HADAR experiment for the sky survey of TeVγ-ray sources from TeVCat and provids a one-year survey of statistical significance.Results from the simulation show that a total of 23 galactic point sources,including five supernova remnant sources and superbubbles,four pulsar wind nebula sources,and 14 unidentified sources,were detected in the HADAR FOV with a significance greater than 5 standard deviations(σ).The statistical significance for the Crab Nebula during one year of operation reached 346.0σand the one-year integral sensitivity of HADAR above 1 TeV was~1.3%–2.4%of the flux from the Crab Nebula.展开更多
基金support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11873005,11705103,12005120,12147218,U1831208,U1632104,11875264,and U2031110).
文摘The High Altitude Detection of Astronomical Radiation(HADAR)experiment is a refracting terrestrial telescope array based on the atmospheric Cherenkov imaging technique.It focuses the Cherenkov light emitted by extensive air showers through a large aperture water-lens system for observing very-high-energyγ-rays and cosmic rays.With the advantages of a large field-of-view(FOV)and low energy threshold,the HADAR experiment operates in a large-scale sky scanning mode to observe galactic sources.This study presents the prospects of using the HADAR experiment for the sky survey of TeVγ-ray sources from TeVCat and provids a one-year survey of statistical significance.Results from the simulation show that a total of 23 galactic point sources,including five supernova remnant sources and superbubbles,four pulsar wind nebula sources,and 14 unidentified sources,were detected in the HADAR FOV with a significance greater than 5 standard deviations(σ).The statistical significance for the Crab Nebula during one year of operation reached 346.0σand the one-year integral sensitivity of HADAR above 1 TeV was~1.3%–2.4%of the flux from the Crab Nebula.
