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Four Years of Wide-Field Search for Nanosecond Optical Transients with the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov Array. / the TAIGA Collaboration; Kuzmichev, L. A.

In: Astronomy Reports, Vol. 69, No. 5, 13.07.2025, p. 433-456.

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the TAIGA Collaboration & Kuzmichev, LA 2025, 'Four Years of Wide-Field Search for Nanosecond Optical Transients with the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov Array', Astronomy Reports, vol. 69, no. 5, pp. 433-456. https://doi.org/10.1134/S106377292570177X

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the TAIGA Collaboration, & Kuzmichev, L. A. (2025). Four Years of Wide-Field Search for Nanosecond Optical Transients with the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov Array. Astronomy Reports, 69(5), 433-456. https://doi.org/10.1134/S106377292570177X

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the TAIGA Collaboration, Kuzmichev LA. Four Years of Wide-Field Search for Nanosecond Optical Transients with the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov Array. Astronomy Reports. 2025 Jul 13;69(5):433-456. doi: 10.1134/S106377292570177X

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the TAIGA Collaboration ; Kuzmichev, L. A. / Four Years of Wide-Field Search for Nanosecond Optical Transients with the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov Array. In: Astronomy Reports. 2025 ; Vol. 69, No. 5. pp. 433-456.

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title = "Four Years of Wide-Field Search for Nanosecond Optical Transients with the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov Array",
abstract = "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 events/ster/h.",
author = "{the TAIGA Collaboration} and Panov, {A. d.} and Astapov, {I. i.} and Beskin, {G. m.} and Bezyazykov, {P. a.} and A. Chiavassa and Garmash, {A. yu.} and Gress, {E. o.} and Gress, {O. a.} and Gress, {T. i.} and Ivanova, {A. l.} and Ivanova, {A. d.} and Kravchenko, {E. a.} and Kryukov, {A. p.} and Monkhoev, {R. d.} and Rubtsov, {G. i.} and Samoliga, {V. s.} and Sokolov, {A. v.} and N. Ushakov and Volkov, {N. v.} and Kuzmichev, {L. A.}",
note = "This work is supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant 23-72-00019). The work of G.M. Beskin was carried out within the framework of the state assignment of SAO RAS, approved by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.",
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AU - Panov, A. d.

AU - Astapov, I. i.

AU - Beskin, G. m.

AU - Bezyazykov, P. a.

AU - Chiavassa, A.

AU - Garmash, A. yu.

AU - Gress, E. o.

AU - Gress, O. a.

AU - Gress, T. i.

AU - Ivanova, A. l.

AU - Ivanova, A. d.

AU - Kravchenko, E. a.

AU - Kryukov, A. p.

AU - Monkhoev, R. d.

AU - Rubtsov, G. i.

AU - Samoliga, V. s.

AU - Sokolov, A. v.

AU - Ushakov, N.

AU - Volkov, N. v.

AU - Kuzmichev, L. A.

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N2 - 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 events/ster/h.

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