VAMOS: a Pathfinder for the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory
Abstract
VAMOS was a prototype detector built in 2011 at an altitude of 4100m a.s.l. in the state of Puebla, Mexico. The aim of VAMOS was to finalize the design, construction techniques and data acquisition system of the HAWC observatory. HAWC is an air-shower array currently under construction at the same site of VAMOS with the purpose to study the TeV sky. The VAMOS setup included six water Cherenkov detectors and two different data acquisition systems. It was in operation between October 2011 and May 2012 with an average live time of 30%. Besides the scientific verification purposes, the eight months of data were used to obtain the results presented in this paper: the detector response to the Forbush decrease of March 2012, and the analysis of possible emission, at energies above 30 GeV, for long gamma-ray bursts GRB111016B and GRB120328B.
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@article{arxiv.1408.3477,
title = {VAMOS: a Pathfinder for the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory},
author = {A. U. Abeysekara and R. Alfaro and C. Alvarez and J. D. Álvarez and F. Ángeles and R. Arceo and J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez and A. Avila-Aroche and H. A. Ayala Solares and C. Badillo and A. S. Barber and B. M. Baughman and N. Bautista-Elivar and J. Becerra Gonzalez and E. Belmont and E. Benítez and S. Y. BenZvi and D. Berley and A. Bernal and M. Bonilla Rosales and J. Braun and R. A. Caballero-Lopez and K. S. Caballero-Mora and I. Cabrera and A. Carramiñana and L. Castañeda-Martínez and M. Castillo and U. Cotti and J. Cotzomi and E. de la Fuente and C. De León and T. DeYoung and A. Diaz-Azuara and L. Diaz-Cruz and R. Diaz Hernandez and J. C. Díaz-Vélez and B. L. Dingus and D. Dultzin and M. A. DuVernois and R. W. Ellsworth and A. Fernandez and D. W. Fiorino and N. Fraija and A. Galindo and G. García-Torales and F. Garfias and A. González and L. X. González and M. M. González and J. A. Goodman and V. Grabski and M. Gussert and C. Guzmán-Cerón and Z. Hampel-Arias and J. P. Harding and L. Hernández-Cervantes and C. M. Hui and P. Hüntemeyer and A. Imran and A. Iriarte and P. Karn and D. Kieda and G. J. Kunde and R. Langarica and A. Lara and G. Lara and R. J. Lauer and W. H. Lee and D. Lennarz and H. León Vargas and E. C. Linares and J. T. Linnemann and M. Longo and R. Luna-Garcia and A. Marinelli and L. A. Martínez and H. Martínez and O. Martínez and J. Martínez-Castro and M. Martos and J. A. J. Matthews and J. McEnery and E. Mendoza Torres and P. Miranda-Romagnoli and E. Moreno and M. Mostafá and J. Nava and L. Nellen and M. Newbold and R. Noriega-Papaqui and T. Oceguera-Becerra and D. P. Page and B. Patricelli and R. Pelayo and E. G. Pérez-Pérez and J. Pretz and I. Ramírez and A. Renter and C. Rivière and D. Rosa-González and F. Ruiz-Sala and E. L. Ruiz-Velasco and J. Ryan and J. R. Sacahui and H. Salazar and F. Salesa and A. Sandoval and E. Santos and M. Schneider and S. Silich and G. Sinnis and A. J. Smith and K. Sparks Woodle and R. W. Springer and F. Suarez and I. Taboada and A. Tepe and P. A. Toale and K. Tollefson and I. Torres and S. Tinoco and T. N. Ukwatta and J. F. Valdés Galicia and P. Vanegas and A. Vázquez and L. Villaseñor and W. Wall and T. Weisgarber and S. Westerhoff and I. G. Wisher and J. Wood and G. B. Yodh and P. W. Younk and D. Zaborov and A. Zepeda and H. Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.3477},
year = {2015}
}
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Accepted for pubblication in Astroparticle Physics Journal (20 pages, 10 figures). Corresponding authors: A.Marinelli and D.Zaborov