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  • The many surprises from high-energy gamma-ray observations from the Sun

     

     

    Seminar Title  

     The many surprises from high-energy gamma-ray observations from the Sun

       
    Speaker:   Prof Kenny Chun Yu Ng
       

     Affiliation:    

     (Croucher Fellow, Benoziyo FellowWeizmann Institute of Science)
       
    When

    Tuesday afternoon, June 19, 16:00 p.m

       

    Where:   

    Room 212, Astronomy Building
     

                             Welcome to Attend   

     
      ( PMO Academic Committee & Academic Circulating committee)
     

       Abstract: I will discuss recent results on gamma-ray observations of the Sun with Fermi, which revealed many interesting and surprising features.  These gamma rays are expected to be produced by hadronic interactions between cosmic rays and the solar atmosphere. The high gamma-ray flux observed from the Sun requires a large boost of gamma-ray production by some mechanism, which is likely related to solar magnetic fields. Our new results include the first resolved image of the Sun and a mysterious dip in the spectrum between 30-50 GeV. In particular, we also find that the solar gamma-ray spectrum during solar minimum is hard (~$E^{-2.1}$) and reaches at least 200 GeV. This suggests that ground based experiments like HAWC and LHAASO will be important for probing the Sun at TeV regime. Understanding solar gamma rays is crucial for predicting the solar atmospheric neutrino flux, which can realistically be detected by IceCube/KM3NeT, and is important for solar dark matter searches.

     

     

     

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