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We present a new catalog of TeV gamma-ray sources using 1523 days of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory. The catalog represents the most sensitive survey of the Northern gamma-ray sky at energies above several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 A. Albert , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , J. R. Angeles Camacho , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , K. P. Arunbabu , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , V. Baghmanyan , E. Belmont-Moreno , S. Y. BenZvi , C. Brisbois , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , U. Cotti , S. Coutiño de León , E. De la Fuente , R. Diaz Hernandez , L. Diaz-Cruz , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , M. Durocher , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , R. W. Ellsworth , K. Engel , C. Espinoza , K. L. Fan , K. Fang , M. Fernández Alonso , H. Fleischhack , 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 , J. Hinton , B. Hona , D. Huang , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , A. Jardin-Blicq , V. Joshi , D. Kieda , A. Lara , W. H. Lee , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis-Raya , J. Lundeen , R. López-Coto , K. Malone , V. Marandon , 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 , L. Olivera-Nieto , N. Omodei , A. Peisker , Y. Pérez Araujo , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , Z. Ren , C. D. Rho , C. Rivière , D. Rosa-González , E. Ruiz-Velasco , H. Salazar , F. Salesa Greus , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , H. Schoorlemmer , F. Serna , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , R. W. Springer , P. Surajbali , E. Tabachnick , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , R. Torres-Escobedo , T. N. Ukwatta , F. Ureña-Mena , T. Weisgarber , F. Werner , E. Willox , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou , C. de León , J. D. Álvarez

With an instantaneous field of view of 2 sr and a duty cycle > 95%, the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory is a perfect instrument for monitoring variable TeV sources. Because radio galaxies are a type of Active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Daniel Avila Rojas , Rubén Alfaro , M. Magdalena González , Nissim Fraija

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

Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) detect gamma rays by measuring the Cherenkov light emitted by secondary particles in the air shower when the gamma rays hit the atmosphere. At low energies, the limited amount of Cherenkov…

The effective observation time of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) plays an important role in the detection of gamma-ray sources, especially when the expected flux is low. This time is strongly limited by the atmospheric conditions.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-29 Dorota Sobczyńska , Katarzyna Adamczyk , Julian Sitarek , Michal Szanecki

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

The ``Gamma Ray Astronomy at ALmeria'' (GRAAL) experiment uses 63 heliostat-mirrors with a total mirror area of ~ 2500 m2 from the CESA-1 field to collect Cherenkov light from airshowers. The detector is located in a central solar tower and…

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…

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

This paper reports on the capabilities of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) in detecting high-energy gamma-rays that show significant contributions of hadronic origin. We focus on four sources: RX J1713.7-3946, HESS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-17 P. Sharma , C. Dubos , S. R. Patel T. Suomijarvi

Gamma/hadron discrimination in ground-based gamma-ray observatories at the sub-TeV energy range is challenging as traditional muon-based methods become less effective at lower energies. This work explores a novel gamma/hadron discrimination…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-27 R. Conceição , B. S. González , A. Guillén , M. Pimenta , B. Tomé

The MACE (Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment) is a 21 m diameter gamma-ray telescope which is presently being installed at Hanle in Ladakh, India (32^0 46^' 46^" N, 78^0 58^' 35^" E) at an altitude of 4270 m a.s.l. Once operational, it…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-06 Mradul Sharma , Chinmay B. , Nilay Bhatt , Subir Bhattacharyya , S. Bose , Abhas Mitra , R. Koul , A. K. Tickoo , Ramesh C. Rannot

Very High Energy (VHE) gamma rays and charged cosmic rays (CCRs) provide an observational window into the acceleration mechanisms of extreme astrophysical environments. One of the major challenges at Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Songshaptak De , Writasree Maitra , Vikram Rentala , Arun M. Thalapillil

Neural networks have proved to be versatile and robust for particle separation in many experiments related to particle astrophysics. We apply these techniques to separate gamma rays from hadrons for the MAGIC Cerenkov Telescope. Two types…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Boinee , F. Barbarino , A. De Angelis , A. Saggion , M. Zacchello

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's leading ground-based gamma-ray observatory allowing us to study very high energy phenomena in the Universe. CTA will produce huge data sets, of the order of petabytes, and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-02 S. Mangano , C. Delgado , M. Bernardos , M. Lallena , J. J. Rodríguez Vázquez

GAW (Gamma Air Watch) is a new imaging Cherenkov telescope designed for observation of very high-energy gamma-ray sources. GAW will be equipped with a 3 meter diameter Fresnel lens as light collector and with an array of 300 multi-anode…

VERITAS is a system of four imaging Cherenkov telescopes located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in southern Arizona. We present here results of detailed Monte Carlo simulations of the array response to extensive air showers.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 G. Maier

Atmospheric \v{C}erenkov Technique is an established methodology to study $TeV$ energy gamma rays. However the challenging problem has always been the poor signal to noise ratio due to the presence of abundant cosmic rays. Several ingenious…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 V. R. Chitnis , P. N. Bhat

GAW (Gamma Air Watch) is a pathfinder experiment in the TeV range to test the feasibility of a new generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT). It combines high flux sensitivity with large field-of-view (FoV=24deg x 24deg)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-14 Luisa Arruda , GAW collaboration

The discovery of ultra-high energy gamma-ray sources (detected at energies $\geq$ 100 TeV) thanks to highly sensitive observatories such as the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory, the Tibet AS-gamma Experiment, and the Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-13 E. de la Fuente , J. L. Flores , G. García-Toráles , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , I. Toledano-Juárez , the HAWC Collaboration