First Results from HAWC on GRBs
Abstract
In this contribution, the first results of HAWC, searching for VHE gamma-ray emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) reported by , are presented. The HAWC gamma-ray observatory is operating in central Mexico at an altitude of 4,100 m above sea level. With an instantaneous field of view of approximately 2 sr and over 95% duty cycle (up time fraction), HAWC is an ideal detector to perform ground-based gamma-ray observations of GRBs. Though optimised for TeV observations, HAWC has significant sensitivity to short transients of energies as small as 50 GeV. The analysis method used for fast online and offline HAWC follow up of GRBs reported by satellites is described.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.07325,
title = {First Results from HAWC on GRBs},
author = {Dirk Lennarz and Ignacio Taboada},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.07325},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Presented at the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), The Hague, The Netherlands. See arXiv:1508.03327 for all HAWC contributions