Four Years of Wide-Field Search for Nanosecond Optical Transients with the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov Array

It has been previously demonstrated by Panov et al. (2021) that the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov array, originally built for cosmic ray physics and ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray astronomy studies using the extensive air shower method, can be used in conventional optical astronomy for wide-field searches for rare nanosecond optical transients of astrophysical origin. The field of view of the facility is on the scale of 1 ster, and it is capable of detecting very rare transients in the visible light range with fluxes greater than approximately 3000 quanta/m2/10 ns (10 ns is the apparatus integration time) and pulse durations of 10 ns. Among the potential sources of distant nanosecond optical transients are the evaporation of primary black holes, magnetic reconnection in the accretion disks of black holes, and signals from distant lasers of extraterrestrial civilizations. The paper describes the methods and results of the search for optical transients using the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov array from 2018 to 2022 (four winter seasons of data collection). No reliable astrophysical candidates for optical transients were found. We set an upper bound on the flux of the searched events as $$ \sim {\kern 1pt} 1 \times {{10}^{{ - 3}}}$$ events/ster/h.

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Astronomy Reports
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2025-05-01
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Four Years of Wide-Field Search for Nanosecond Optical Transients with the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov Array

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Four Years of Wide-Field Search for Nanosecond Optical Transients with the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov Array

A. P. Kryukov, И. И. Астапов, Д. Журов, В. А. Кожин, К. Г. Компаниец, Andrey Sidorenkov, A. Yu. Razumov, Н. Буднев, А. А. Петрухин, А. Пушнин, E. A. Kravchenko, L. Pankov, В. Самолига, Л. Г. Свешникова, S. Kiryuhin, M. Ternovoy, I. Poddubny, Nikita Ushakov, Yu. Lemeshev, Е. А. Бонвеч, А. Р. Гафаров, А. Пан, М. А. Ilyushin, В. В. Киндин, Н. Лубсандоржиев, Н. Н. Калмыков, А. В. Скурихин, I. I. Yashin, Р. Р. Миргазов, L. A. Kuzmichev, А. Д. Панов, P. A. Bezyazykov, V. Grebenyuk, А. Танаев, A. V. Zagorodnikov, Ivanova La, A. N. Dyachok, Т. И. Гресс, Е. Постников, А. Пахоруков, Д. Воронин, A. A. Grinyuk, M. V. Lavrova, Г. И. Рубцов, Р. И. Райкин, Л. Ткачев, А. Булан, О. Гришин, А. Бородин, А. В. Блинов, В. В. Просин, A. D. Ivanova, И. Сатышев, G. Beskin, Д. В. Чернов, E. Gress, V. N. Zirakashvili, П. А. Волчугов, Е. Е. Коростелева, Н. В. Волков, A. Sokolov, Р. П. Кокоулин, E.V. Rjabov, О. Гресс, A. Chiavassa, Е. Г. Попова, А. А. Силаев, В. А. Таболенко, Р. Д. Монхоев, A. Garmash, Arslan Lukanov, Б. К. Лубсандоржиев, А. А. Лагутин, С. Д. Малахов, Э. А. Осипова, E. A. Okyneva, A. Shaikovsky, P. Busygina, D. A. Podgrudkova
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It has been previously demonstrated by Panov et al. (2021) that the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov array, originally built for cosmic ray physics and ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray astronomy studies using the extensive air shower method, can be used in conventional optical astronomy for wide-field searches for rare nanosecond optical transients of astrophysical origin. The field of view of the facility is on the scale of 1 ster, and it is capable of detecting very rare transients in the visible light range with fluxes greater than approximately 3000 quanta/m2/10 ns (10 ns is the apparatus integration time) and pulse durations of 10 ns. Among the potential sources of distant nanosecond optical transients are the evaporation of primary black holes, magnetic reconnection in the accretion disks of black holes, and signals from distant lasers of extraterrestrial civilizations. The paper describes the methods and results of the search for optical transients using the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov array from 2018 to 2022 (four winter seasons of data collection). No reliable astrophysical candidates for optical transients were found. We set an upper bound on the flux of the searched events as $$ \sim {\kern 1pt} 1 \times {{10}^{{ - 3}}}$$ events/ster/h.

Astronomy ReportsVol. 69(5)
Altai State University (RU), Novosibirsk State University (RU), Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU), Special Astrophysical Observatory (RU), Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU), Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation (RU), Dubna State University (RU), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino (IT), Institute for Nuclear Research (RU), Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (RU), National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (RU), Irkutsk State University (RU)
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