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Observation of TeV Gamma Rays from the Fermi Bright Galactic Sources with the Tibet Air Shower Array

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arxiv 0912.0386 v1 pith:C2TKN54Z submitted 2009-12-02 astro-ph.HE

M. Amenomori , X. J. Bi , D. Chen , S. W. Cui , Danzengluobu , L. K. Ding , X. H. Ding , C. Fan
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C. F. Feng Zhaoyang Feng Z. Y. Feng X. Y. Gao Q. X. Geng Q. B. Gou H. W. Guo H. H. He M. He K. Hibino N. Hotta Haibing Hu H. B. Hu J. Huang Q. Huang H. Y. Jia L. Jiang F. Kajino K. Kasahara Y. Katayose C. Kato K. Kawata Labaciren G. M. Le A. F. Li H. C. Li J. Y. Li C. Liu Y.-Q. Lou H. Lu X. R. Meng K. Mizutani J. Mu K. Munakata H. Nanjo M. Nishizawa M. Ohnishi I. Ohta S. Ozawa T. Saito T. Y. Saito M. Sakata T. K. Sako M. Shibata A. Shiomi T. Shirai H. Sugimoto M. Takita Y. H. Tan N. Tateyama S. Torii H. Tsuchiya S. Udo B. Wang H. Wang Y. Wang Y. G. Wang H. R. Wu L. Xue Y. Yamamoto C. T. Yan X. C. Yang S. Yasue Z. H. Ye G. C. Yu A. F. Yuan T. Yuda H. M. Zhang J. L. Zhang N. J. Zhang X. Y. Zhang Y. Zhang Yi Zhang Ying Zhang Zhaxisangzhu X. X. Zhou (The Tibet ASgamma Collaboration)
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Using the Tibet-III air shower array, we search for TeV gamma-rays from 27 potential Galactic sources in the early list of bright sources obtained by the Fermi Large Area Telescope at energies above 100 MeV. Among them, we observe 7 sources instead of the expected 0.61 sources at a significance of 2 sigma or more excess. The chance probability from Poisson statistics would be estimated to be 3.8 x 10^-6. If the excess distribution observed by the Tibet-III array has a density gradient toward the Galactic plane, the expected number of sources may be enhanced in chance association. Then, the chance probability rises slightly, to 1.2 x 10^-5, based on a simple Monte Carlo simulation. These low chance probabilities clearly show that the Fermi bright Galactic sources have statistically significant correlations with TeV gamma-ray excesses. We also find that all 7 sources are associated with pulsars, and 6 of them are coincident with sources detected by the Milagro experiment at a significance of 3 sigma or more at the representative energy of 35 TeV. The significance maps observed by the Tibet-III air shower array around the Fermi sources, which are coincident with the Milagro >=3sigma sources, are consistent with the Milagro observations. This is the first result of the northern sky survey of the Fermi bright Galactic sources in the TeV region.

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