Simulation of possibility of detecting gamma rays emitted from crab by Alborz-I array

Pezeshkian, Y; Laletaheri, A

doi:10.47176/ijpr.20.4.71099

Simulation of possibility of detecting gamma rays emitted from crab by Alborz-I array

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Y Pezeshkian ¹

A Laletaheri ²

¹ ‎‎1. Department of Physics, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran ‎ 2. Alborz Observatory, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran‎, Iran ‎

² Department of Physics, University of Zanjan, Zanjan‎, Iran ‎ ‎

https://doi.org/10.47176/ijpr.20.4.71099

Abstract

Crab Nebula, as an active source of high energy gamma-rays, is a common standard source used for calibrating different gamma-ray telescopes and observatories. Since gamma rays with energies above 100 TeV from crab is reported, it is possible to detect gamma rays emitted from this nebula by a suitable ground based detector array. Alborz-I array is designed to study cosmic rays with energies around the knee of cosmic ray spectrum. In this paper, it is shown that the current location and configuration of Alborz-I, makes it impossible to detect Crab gamma rays. Our simulation shows that the average rate of gamma particle detection reaches to something above 1 gamma particle in 2 years, which is very difficult to distinguish from cosmic ray background. Finally some proposals to constructing an array with capability of detecting Crab gamma rays are presented.

Keywords

cosmic rays

crab nebula

Alborz observatory

gamma ray astronomy‎ ‎‎

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