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Searching for Dark Matter Sub-structure with HAWC

Simulations of dark matter show a discrepancy between the expected number of Galactic dark matter sub-halos and how many have been optically observed. Some of these unseen satellites may exist as dark dwarf galaxies: sub-halos like dwarf…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-24 A. U. Abeysekara , A. Albert , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , R. Arceo , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , E. Belmont-Moreno , S. Y. BenZvi , C. Brisbois , K. S. Caballero-Mora , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , C. De León , E. De la Fuente , S. Dichiara , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , K. Engel , C. Espinoza , H. Fleischhack , N. Fraija , A. Galván-Gámez , J. A. García-González , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , J. P. Harding , B. Hona , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , A. Lara , W. H. Lee , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis-Raya , J. Lundeen , K. Malone , S. S. Marinelli , O. Martinez , I. Martinez-Castellanos , J. Martínez-Castro , J. A. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nellen , M. Newbold , M. U. Nisa , R. Noriega-Papaqui , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , Z. Ren , C. D. Rho , C. Rivière , D. Rosa-González , M. Rosenberg , H. Salazar , F. Salesa Greus , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , R. W. Springer , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , G. Vianello , T. Weisgarber , J. Wood , T. Yapici , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou , J. D. Álvarez

Spectral analysis of Markarian 421 and Markarian 501 with HAWC

The Hight Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory monitors the gamma-ray sky in the energy range from 100 GeV to 100 TeV and has detected two very high energy (VHE) blazars: Markarian 421 (Mrk 421) and Markarian 501 (Mrk 501)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 S. Coutiño de León , A. Carramiñana , D. Rosa-González

Search for TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from Point-like Sources in the Inner Galactic Plane with a Partial Configuration of the HAWC Observatory

A survey of the inner Galaxy region of Galactic longitude l in [+15, +50] degree and latitude b in [-4,+4] degree is performed using one-third of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory operated during its construction phase.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 A. U. Abeysekara , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , J. D. Álvarez , R. Arceo , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , H. A. Ayala Solares , A. S. Barber , B. M. Baughman , N. Bautista-Elivar , A. D. Becerril Reyes , E. Belmont , S. Y. BenZvi , A. Bernal , J. Braun , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , M. Castillo , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , E. de la Fuente , C. De León , T. DeYoung , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , R. W. Ellsworth , O. Enriquez-Rivera , D. W. Fiorino , N. Fraija , F. Garfias , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , M. Gussert , Z. Hampel-Arias , J. P. Harding , S. Hernandez , P. Hüntemeyer , C. M. Hui , A. Imran , A. Iriarte , P. Karn , D. Kieda , A. Lara , R. J. Lauer , W. H. Lee , D. Lennarz , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , M. Longo , G. Luis Raya , K. Malone , A. Marinelli , S. S. Marinelli , H. Martinez , O. Martinez , J. Martínez-Castro , J. A. J. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , L. Nellen , M. Newbold , R. Noriega-Papaqui , B. Patricelli , R. Pelayo , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , J. Pretz , Z. Ren , C. Rivière , D. Rosa-González , H. Salazar , F. Salesa Greus , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , K. Sparks Woodle , R. W. Springer , I. Taboada , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , T. N. Ukwatta , L. Villaseñor , K. Vrabel , T. Weisgarber , S. Westerhoff , I. G. Wisher , J. Wood , T. Yapici , G. B. Yodh , P. W. Younk , D. Zaborov , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou

GAW - An Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope with Large Field of View

GAW, acronym for Gamma Air Watch, is a Research and Development experiment in the TeV range, whose main goal is to explore the feasibility of large field of view Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. GAW is an array of three relatively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-01 G. Cusumano , G. Agnetta , A. Alberdi , M. Alvarez , P. Assis , B. Biondo , F. Bocchino , P. Brogueira , J. A. Caballero , M. Carvajal , A. J. Castro-Tirado , O. Catalano , F. Celi , C. Delgado , G. Di Cocco , A. Dominguez , J. M. Espino Navas , M. C. Espirito Santo , M. I. Gallardo , J. E. Garcia , S. Giarrusso , M. Gomez , J. L. Gomez , P. Goncalves , M. Guerriero , A. La Barbera , G. La Rosa , M. Lozano , M. C. Maccarone , A. Mangano , I. Martel , E. Massaro , T. Mineo , M. Moles , F. Perez-Bernal , M. A. Peres-Torres , M. Pimenta , A. Pina , F. Prada , J. M. Quesada , J. M. Quintana , J. R. Quintero , J. Rodriguez , F. Russo , B. Sacco , M. A. Sanchez-Conde , A. Segreto , B. Tome' , A. de Ugarte Postigo , P. Vallania

VERITAS: HAWC's Neighbour to the North

This paper summarizes a presentation given on the occasion of the inauguration of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-ray Observatory in Puebla, Mexico in March 2015. The inauguration of a new facility for the study of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Jamie Holder

Expected performance of the GAW Cherenkov Telescopes Array. Simulation and Analysis

GAW is a "path-finder" experiment to test the feasibility of a new generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes that join high flux sensitivity with large field of view capability using Fresnel lens, stereoscopic observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-31 M. C. Maccarone , P. Assis , O. Catalano , G. Cusumano , M. C. Espirito Santo , P. Goncalves , M. Moles , M. Pimenta , A. Pina , B. Sacco , B. Tome'

Detection of vertical muons with the HAWC water Cherenkov detectors and its application to gamma/hadron discrimination

The HAWC observatory reconstructs atmospheric showers induced by very high-energy primary cosmic- or gamma-rays. Cosmic-rays with hadronic nature are several orders of magnitude more frequent than primary gammas and therefore it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Ariel Zuñiga-Reyes , Alberto Hernández , Aldo Miranda-Aguilar , Andrés Sandoval , J. Martínez-Castro , Rubén Alfaro , Ernesto Belmont , Hermes León , Ana P. Vizcaya

Search for very-high-energy emission with HAWC from GW170817 event

The detection of the gravitational wave GW170817 defined a breakthrough in multi-messenger astronomy. For the first time, a gravitational wave transient detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 Antonio Galvan-Gamez , Nissim Fraija , M. Magdalena Gonzalez

HAWC High Energy Upgrade with a Sparse Array

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory has been fully operational since March 2015. To improve its sensitivity at the highest energies, it is being upgraded with an additional sparse array called outrigger array. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-06 Vikas Joshi

TeV emission of Galactic plane sources with HAWC and H.E.S.S

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) are two leading instruments in the ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray domain. HAWC employs the water Cherenkov detection (WCD)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-09 H. Abdalla , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , E. O. Angüner , C. Arcaro , C. Armand , T. Armstrong , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , V. Baghmanyan , V. Barbosa Martins , A. Barnacka , M. Barnard , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , K. Bernlöhr , B. Bi , M. Böttcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , M. de Bony de Lavergne , M. Breuhaus , R. Brose , F. Brun , P. Brun , M. Bryan , M. Büchele , T. Bulik , T. Bylund , S. Caroff , A. Carosi , T. Chand , S. Chandra , A. Chen , G. Cotter , M. Curyło , J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye , I. D. Davids , J. Davies , C. Deil , J. Devin , L. Dirson , A. Djannati-Ataï , A. Dmytriiev , A. Donath , V. Doroshenko , L. Dreyer , C. Duffy , J. Dyks , K. Egberts , F. Eichhorn , S. Einecke , G. Emery , J. -P. Ernenwein , K. Feijen , S. Fegan , A. Fiasson , G. Fichet de Clairfontaine , G. Fontaine , S. Funk , M. Füßling , S. Gabici , Y. A. Gallant , G. Giavitto , L. Giunti , D. Glawion , J. F. Glicenstein , D. Gottschall , M. -H. Grondin , J. Hahn , M. Haupt , G. Hermann , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , C. Hoischen , T. L. Holch , M. Holler , M. Hörbe , D. Horns , D. Huber , M. Jamrozy , D. Jankowsky , F. Jankowsky , I. Jung-Richardt , E. Kasai , M. A. Kastendieck , K. Katarzyński , U. Katz , D. Khangulyan , B. Khélifi , S. Klepser , W. Kluźniak , Nu. Komin , R. Konno , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , M. Kreter , G. Lamanna , A. Lemière , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , F. Leuschner , C. Levy , T. Lohse , I. Lypova , J. Mackey , J. Majumdar , D. Malyshev , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , P. Marchegiani , A. Marcowith , A. Mares , G. Martí-Devesa , R. Marx , G. Maurin , P. J. Meintjes , M. Meyer , A. M. W. Mitchell , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , A. Montanari , C. Moore , P. Morris , E. Moulin , J. Muller , T. Murach , K. Nakashima , A. Nayerhoda , M. de Naurois , H. Ndiyavala , J. Niemiec , L. Oakes , P. O Brien , H. Odaka , S. Ohm , L. Olivera-Nieto , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , M. Ostrowski , S. Panny , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , G. Peron , B. Peyaud , Q. Piel , S. Pita , V. Poireau , A. Priyana Noel , D. A. Prokhorov , H. Prokoph , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , S. Raab , R. Rauth , P. Reichherzer , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , Q. Remy , M. Renaud , F. Rieger , L. Rinchiuso , C. Romoli , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , V. Sahakian , S. Sailer , H. Salzmann , D. A. Sanchez , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , J. Schäfer , F. Schüssler , H. M. Schutte , U. Schwanke , M. Seglar-Arroyo , M. Senniappan , A. S. Seyffert , N. Shafi , J. N. S. Shapopi , K. Shiningayamwe , R. Simoni , A. Sinha , H. Sol , A. Specovius , S. Spencer , M. Spir-Jacob , Ł. Stawarz , L. Sun , R. Steenkamp , C. Stegmann , S. Steinmassl , C. Steppa , T. Takahashi , T. Tavernier , A. M. Taylor , R. Terrier , J. H. E. Thiersen , D. Tiziani , M. Tluczykont , L. Tomankova , C. Trichard , M. Tsirou , R. Tuffs , Y. Uchiyama , D. J. van der Walt , C. van Eldik , C. van Rensburg , B. van Soelen , G. Vasileiadis , J. Veh , C. Venter , P. Vincent , J. Vink , H. J. Völk , Z. Wadiasingh , S. J. Wagner , J. Watson , F. Werner , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , Yu Wun Wong , A. Yusafzai , M. Zacharias , R. Zanin , D. Zargaryan , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , S. J. Zhu , A. Zmija , J. Zorn , S. Zouari , N. Żywucka , A. Albert , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , K. P. Arunbabu , D. Avila Rojas , V. Baghmanyan , E. Belmont-Moreno , S. Y. BenZvi , C. Brisbois , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , E. De la Fuente , C. de León , R. Diaz Hernandez , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , M. Durocher , R. W. Ellsworth , K. Engel , C. Espinoza , K. L. Fan , M. Fernández Alonso , N. Fraija , A. Galván-Gámez , D. Garcia , J. A. García-González , F. Garfias , G. Giacinti , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , J. P. Harding , S. Hernandez , B. Hona , D. Huang , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , A. Jardin-Blicq , V. Joshi , D. Kieda , W. H. Lee , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis-Raya , R. López-Coto , K. Malone , O. Martinez , I. Martinez-Castellanos , J. Martínez-Castro , J. A. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , J. A. Morales-Soto , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nellen , M. Newbold , M. U. Nisa , R. Noriega-Papaqui , N. Omodei , A. Peisker , Y. Pérez Araujo , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , C. D. Rho , D. Rosa-González , E. Ruiz-Velasco , F. Salesa Greus , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , H. Schoorlemmer , J. Serna-Franco , A. J. Smith , R. W. Springer , P. Surajbali , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , R. Torres-Escobedo , R. Turner , F. Ureña-Mena , L. Villaseñor , T. Weisgarber , E. Willox , H. Zhou

LAGOVirtual: A Collaborative Environment for the Large Aperture GRB Observatory

We present the LAGOVirtual Project: an ongoing project to develop platform to collaborate in the Large Aperture GRB Observatory (LAGO). This continental-wide observatory is devised to detect high energy (around 100 GeV) component of Gamma…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-12-15 R. Camacho , R. Chacon , G. Diaz , C. Guada , V. Hamar , H. Hoeger , A. Melfo , L. A. Nunez , Y. Perez , C. Quintero , M. Rosales , R. Torrens , the LAGO Collaboration

The spectrum of the light component of TeV cosmic rays measured with HAWC

We present a measurement of the energy spectrum of the light mass group of cosmic rays (protons and helium) with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory in the energy interval from $10$ TeV to $200$ TeV. The spectrum covers the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-02 Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez , J. D. Álvarez

Capability of the HAWC gamma-ray observatory for the indirect detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos

The detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos, with energies in the PeV range or above, is a topic of great interest in modern astroparticle physics. The importance comes from the fact that these neutrinos point back to the most energetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-31 Hermes León Vargas , Andrés Sandoval , Ernesto Belmont , Rubén Alfaro

Prospects for a Multi-TeV Gamma-ray Sky Survey with the LHAASO Water Cherenkov Detector Array

The Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA) is a major component of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Array Observatory (LHAASO), a new generation cosmic-ray experiment with unprecedented sensitivity, currently under construction. The WCDA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 Yingying Guo , Xiaochuan Chang , Hongbo Hu , Zhiguo Yao

Techniques for Measuring Galactic Diffuse Emission Flux and their Preliminary Results in Confused Regions

Galactic diffuse emission has provided us with evidence for cosmic ray acceleration throughout the Galaxy and the background for searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. However, only the very limited measurements of the diffuse flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-29 Chang Dong Rho

Design and expected performance of a novel hybrid detector for very-high-energy gamma astrophysics

Current detectors for Very-High-Energy $\gamma$-ray astrophysics are either pointing instruments with a small field of view (Cherenkov telescopes), or large field-of-view instruments with relatively large energy thresholds (extensive air…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 P. Assis , U. Barres de Almeida , A. Blanco , R. Conceição , B. D'Ettore Piazzoli , A. De Angelis , M. Doro , P. Fonte , L. Lopes , G. Matthiae , M. Pimenta , R. Shellard , B. Tomé

Daily monitoring of TeV gamma-ray emission from Mrk 421, Mrk 501, and the Crab Nebula with HAWC

We present results from daily monitoring of gamma rays in the energy range $\sim0.5$ to $\sim100$ TeV with the first 17 months of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory. Its wide field of view of 2 steradians and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-14 A. U. Abeysekara , A. Albert , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , J. D. Álvarez , R. Arceo , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , A. S. Barber , N. Bautista-Elivar , J. Becerra Gonzalez , A. Becerril , E. Belmont-Moreno , S. Y. BenZvi , A. Bernal , J. Braun , C. Brisbois , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , M. Castillo , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , C. De León , E. De la Fuente , R. Diaz Hernandez , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , R. W. Ellsworth , K. Engel , D. W. Fiorino , N. Fraija , J. A. García-González , F. Garfias , M. Gerhardt , A. González Muñoz , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , Z. Hampel-Arias , J. P. Harding , S. Hernandez , A. Hernandez-Almada , B. Hona , C. M. Hui , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , A. Jardin-Blicq , V. Joshi , S. Kaufmann , D. Kieda , A. Lara , R. J. Lauer , W. H. Lee , D. Lennarz , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis Raya , R. Luna-García , R. López-Coto , K. Malone , S. S. Marinelli , O. Martinez , I. Martinez-Castellanos , J. Martínez-Castro , J. A. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , L. Nellen , M. Newbold , M. U. Nisa , R. Noriega-Papaqui , J. Pretz , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , Z. Ren , C. D. Rho , C. Rivière , D. Rosa-González , M. Rosenberg , E. Ruiz-Velasco , F. Salesa Greus , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , H. Schoorlemmer , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , R. W. Springer , P. Surajbali , I. Taboada , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , T. N. Ukwatta , G. Vianello , T. Weisgarber , S. Westerhoff , I. G. Wisher , J. Wood , T. Yapici , P. W. Younk , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou

Detection of TeV Gamma-Rays from extended sources with Milagro

The Milagro gamma-ray observatory employs a water Cherenkov detector to observe extensive air showers produced by high-energy particles impacting in the Earth's atmosphere. A 4800 m$^{2}$ pond instrumented with 723 8" PMTs detects Cherenkov…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 P. M. Saz Parkinson

Exploring the nature of 2HWC J2006+341 with HAWC and Fermi-LAT

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is carrying out a detailed survey of the northern sky at TeV energies. 2HWC J2006+341 is a newly discovered source reported by the point source search in the 2HWC HAWC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-25 Miguel Araya

Constraints on Very High Energy gamma-ray emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts

The Milagro gamma-ray observatory employs a water Cherenkov detector to observe extensive air showers produced by high energy particles interacting in the Earth's atmosphere. Milagro has a wide field of view and high duty cycle, monitoring…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Atkins , W. Benbow , D. Berley , E. Blaufuss , D. G. Coyne , T. DeYoung , B. L. Dingus , D. E. Dorfan , R. W. Ellsworth , L. Fleysher , R. Fleysher , M. M. Gonzalez , J. A. Goodman , E. Hays , C. M. Hoffman , L. A. Kelley , C. P. Lansdell , J. T. Linnemann , J. E. McEnery , A. I. Mincer , M. F. Morales , P. Nemethy , D. Noyes , J. M. Ryan , F. W. Samuelson , P. M. Saz Parkinson , A. Shoup , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , G. W. Sullivan , D. A. Williams , M. E. Wilson , X. W. Xu , G. B. Yodh