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The MAGIC experiment, a very large Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) with sensitivity to low energy (E < 100 GeV) VHE gamma rays, has been operated since 2004. It has been found that the gamma/hadron separation in IACTs becomes much…

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Steady gamma-ray emission up to at least 200 GeV has been detected from the solar disk in the Fermi-LAT data, with the brightest, hardest emission occurring during solar minimum. The likely cause is hadronic cosmic rays undergoing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 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 , T. Capistràn , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , M. Castillo , 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 , O. Enríquez-Rivera , C. Espinoza , H. Fleischhack , N. Fraija , J. A. García-González , F. Garfias , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , Z. Hampel-Arias , J. P. Harding , S. Hernandez , B. Hona , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , A. Jardin-Blicq , V. Joshi , S. Kaufmann , H. León Vargas , G. Luis-Raya , J. Lundeen , R. López-Coto , K. Malone , S. S. Marinelli , O. Martinez , I. Martinez-Castellanos , J. Martínez-Castro , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , A. Nayerhoda , 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 , H. Salazar , F. Salesa Greus , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , H. Schoorlemmer , M. Seglar Arroyo , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , P. Surajbali , I. Taboada , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , L. Villaseñor , T. Weisgarber , S. Westerhoff , I. G. Wisher , J. Wood , T. Yapici , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou , J. D. Álvarez , J. F. Beacom , R. K. Leane , T. Linden , K. C. Y. Ng , A. H. G. Peter , B. Zhou

During the last decade ground-based very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy achieved a remarkable advancement in the development of the observational technique for the registration and study of gamma-ray emission above 100 GeV. It is widely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Konopelko , A. Chilingarian , A. Reimers

This work is a methodical study on hybrid reconstruction techniques for hybrid imaging/timing Cherenkov observations. This type of hybrid array is to be realized at the gamma-observatory TAIGA intended for very high energy gamma-ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 E. B. Postnikov , A. A. Grinyuk , L. A. Kuzmichev , L. G. Sveshnikova

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

When very-high-energy gamma rays interact high in the Earth's atmosphere, they produce cascades of particles that induce flashes of Cherenkov light. Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) detect these flashes and convert them into…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-30 Pietro Grespan , Mikael Jacquemont , Rubèn López-Coto , Tjark Miener , Daniel Nieto-Castaño , Thomas Vuillaume

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is a large field of view (~2 sr) continuously operating experiment sensitive to very-high energy (VHE) gamma rays (~0.3-100 TeV). These characteristics make it well suited for observing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-20 Israel Martinez-Castellanos

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is a wide field-of-view observatory sensitive to 0.5 TeV - 100 TeV gamma-rays and cosmic-rays in the State of Puebla, Mexico at an altitude of 4100m. The HAWC observatory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Tolga Yapici , Andrew J. Smith

This paper presents several approaches to deal with the problem of identifying muons in a water Cherenkov detector with a reduced water volume and 4 PMTs. Different perspectives of information representation are used and new features are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-01-29 B. S. González , R. Conceição , M. Pimenta , B. Tomé , A. Guillén

The Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescope system is located on the Canary Island of La Palma and inspects the very high-energy (VHE, few tens of GeV and above) gamma-ray sky. MAGIC consists of two imaging atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 T. Miener , D. Nieto , R. López-Coto , J. L. Contreras , J. G. Green , D. Green , E. Mariotti on behalf of the MAGIC Collaboration

Water Cherenkov Detectors (WCD) are efficient detectors for detecting GRBs in the 10 GeV - 1 TeV energy range using the single particle technique, given their sensitivity to low energy secondary photons produced by high energy photons when…

Microquasars with high-mass companion stars are promising very-high-energy (VHE; 0.1-100 TeV) gamma-ray emitters, but their behaviors above 10 TeV are poorly known. Using the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, we search for…

In this paper we present a new method for ground based gamma ray astronomy based only on atmospheric Cherenkov light flux analysis. The Cherenkov light flux densities in extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by different primaries are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Mishev , S. Mavrodiev , J. Stamenov

We show from a simulations-based study of the TACTIC telescope that fractal and wavelet analysis of Cerenkov images, recorded in a single imaging Cerenkov telescope, enables almost complete segregation of isotropic gamma-ray initiated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 C. K. Bhat

We study the propagation of Cerenkov photons generated by Very High Energy gamma-rays and hadrons in the atmosphere. The photon production height distributions are estimated from semi-empirical methods and compared with those derived by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 M. A. Rahman , P. N. Bhat , B. S. Acharya , V. R. Chitnis , P. Majumdar , P. R. Vishwanath

Recent observations of the gamma-ray source HAWC J2227+610 by Tibet AS+MD and LHAASO confirm the special interest of this source as a galactic PeVatron candidate in the northern hemisphere. HAWC J2227+610 emits Very High Energy (VHE)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-18 G. Verna , F. Cassol , H. Costantini

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) and IceCube observatories, through the Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) framework, have developed a multimessenger joint search for extragalactic astrophysical sources. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-23 H. A. Ayala Solares , S. Coutu , J. J. DeLaunay , D. B. Fox , T. Grégoire , A. Keivani , F. Krauß , M. Mostafá , K. Murase , C. F. Turley , A. Albert , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , J. R. Angeles Camacho , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , K. P. Arunbabu , D. Avila Rojas , E. Belmont-Moreno , C. Brisbois , K. S. Caballero-Mora , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , U. Cotti , E. De la Fuente , R. Diaz Hernandez , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , M. Durocher , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , C. Espinoza , K. L. Fan , H. Fleischhack , N. Fraija , A. Galván-Gámez , D. Garcia , J. A. García-González , F. Garfias , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , J. P. Harding , B. Hona , D. Huang , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , P. Huntemeyer , A. Iriarte , A. Jardin-Blicq , V. Joshi , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis-Raya , J. Lundeen , K. Malone , O. Martinez , I. Martinez-Castellanos , J. Martínez-Castro , J. A. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , E. 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B. Watson , C. Weaver , A. Weindl , M. J. Weiss , J. Weldert , C. Wendt , J. Werthebach , B. J. Whelan , N. Whitehorn , K. Wiebe , C. H. Wiebusch , D. R. Williams , L. Wills , M. Wolf , T. R. Wood , K. Woschnagg , G. Wrede , J. Wulff , X. W. Xu , Y. Xu , J. P. Yanez , S. Yoshida , T. Yuan , Z. Zhang , M. Zöcklein

Based on data and Monte-Carlo simulations of the HEGRA IACT system, improved analysis techniques were developed for the determination of the shower geometry and shower energy from the multiple Cherenkov images. These techniques allow, e.g.,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Hofmann