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'Aquila Booster' challenges theoretical limits of particle acceleration in pulsar wind nebulae

  • April 24, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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'Aquila Booster' challenges theoretical limits of particle acceleration in pulsar wind nebulae
The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has detected PeV (1015 eV) gamma-ray emission from a pulsar wind nebula powered by PSR J1849-0001 in the constellation Aquila, marking the discovery of a new PeVatron and posing a challenge to the classical theory of particle acceleration in pulsar wind nebulae.

Originally published at Phys.org

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