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First year results of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is a wide field of view (1.8 Sr) and high duty cycle (>95% up-time) detector of unique capabilities for the study of TeV gamma-ray sources. Installed at an altitude of 4100m in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Alberto Carramiñana

First Detection of sub-PeV Diffuse Gamma Rays from the Galactic Disk: Evidence for Ubiquitous Galactic Cosmic Rays beyond PeV Energies

We report, for the first time, the long-awaited detection of diffuse gamma rays with energies between 100 TeV and 1 PeV in the Galactic disk. Particularly, all gamma rays above 398 TeV are observed apart from known TeV gamma-ray sources and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-18 M. Amenomori , Y. W. Bao , X. J. Bi , D. Chen , T. L. Chen , W. Y. Chen , Xu Chen , Y. Chen , Cirennima , S. W. Cui , Danzengluobu , L. K. Ding , J. H. Fang , K. Fang , C. F. Feng , Zhaoyang Feng , Z. Y. Feng , Qi Gao , Q. B. Gou , Y. Q. Guo , Y. Y. Guo , H. H. He , Z. T. He , K. Hibino , N. Hotta , Haibing Hu , H. B. Hu , J. Huang , H. Y. Jia , L. Jiang , H. B. Jin , K. Kasahara , Y. Katayose , C. Kato , S. Kato , K. Kawata , W. Kihara , Y. Ko , M. Kozai , Labaciren , G. M. Le , A. F. Li , H. J. Li , W. J. Li , Y. H. Lin , B. Liu , C. Liu , J. S. Liu , M. Y. Liu , W. Liu , Y. -Q. Lou , H. Lu , X. R. Meng , K. Munakata , H. Nakada , Y. Nakamura , H. Nanjo , M. Nishizawa , M. Ohnishi , T. Ohura , S. Ozawa , X. L. Qian , X. B. Qu , T. Saito , M. Sakata , T. K. Sako , J. Shao , M. Shibata , A. Shiomi , H. Sugimoto , W. Takano , M. Takita , Y. H. Tan , N. Tateyama , S. Torii , H. Tsuchiya , S. Udo , H. Wang , H. R. Wu , L. Xue , Y. Yamamoto , Z. Yang , Y. Yokoe , A. F. Yuan , L. M. Zhai , H. M. Zhang , J. L. Zhang , X. Zhang , X. Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Yi Zhang , Ying Zhang , S. P. Zhao , Zhaxisangzhu , X. X. Zhou

The TeV Sun Rises: Discovery of Gamma rays from the Quiescent Sun with HAWC

We report the first detection of a TeV gamma-ray flux from the solar disk (6.3$\sigma$), based on 6.1 years of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory. The 0.5--2.6 TeV spectrum is well fit by a power law, dN/dE = $A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 A. Albert , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , R. Babu , E. Belmont-Moreno , C. Brisbois , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistran , A. Carraminana , S. Casanova , O. Chaparro-Amaro , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutino de Leon , E. De la Fuente , R. Diaz Hernandez , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , M. Durocher , J. C. Diaz-Velez , R. W. Ellsworth , K. Engel , C. Espinoza , K. L. Fan , K. Fang , M. Fernandez Alonso , H. Fleischhack , N. Fraija , J. A. Garcia-Gonzalez , F. Garfia , M. M. Gonzalez , J. A. Goodman , J. P. Harding , S. Hernandez , J. Hinton , D. Huang , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , P. Huntemeyer , A. Iriarte , V. Joshi , S. Kaufmann , J. Lee , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis-Raya , K. Malone , O. Martinez , J. Martinez-Castro , J. A. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , J. A. Morales-Soto , E. Moreno , M. Mostafa , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nellen , M. U. Nisa , R. Noriega-Papaqui , L. Olivera-Nieto , N. Omodei , Y. Pérez Araujo , E. G. Perez-Perez , C. D. Rho , D. Rosa-Gonzalez , E. Ruiz-Velasco , H. Salazar , D. Salazar-Gallegos , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , J. Serna-Franco , A. J. Smith , Y. Son , R. W. Springer , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , R. Torres-Escobedo , R. Turner , F. Urena-Mena , X. Wang , I. J. Watson , E. Willox , S. Yun-Cárcamo , H. Zhou , C. de León , J. F. Beacom , T. Linden , K. C. Y. Ng , A. H. G. Peter , B. Zhou

Survey of nearby active galactic nuclei with the HAWC Observatory

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) has a wide field-of-view (FOV, $\sim$2sr) and a high duty cycle ($\sim$95\%), which make it a powerful survey and monitoring experiment for sources of TeV gamma rays. We present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-21 Zhixiang Ren , Robert Lauer , John A. J. Matthews , the HAWC Collaboration

An optimized search for dark matter in the galactic halo with HAWC

The Galactic Halo is a key target for indirect dark matter detection. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a high-energy (~300 GeV to >100 TeV) gamma-ray detector located in central Mexico. HAWC operates via the water…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-19 A. Albert , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , E. Belmont-Moreno , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistran , A. Carraminana , S. Casanova , O. Chaparro-Amaro , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , E. De la Fuente , R. Diaz Hernandez , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , M. Durocher , J. C. Dıaz-Velez , C. Espinoza , K. L. Fan , N. Fraija , J. A. Garcıa-Gonzalez , F. Garfias , M. M. Gonzalez , J. A. Goodman , J. P. Harding , D. Huang , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , A. Iriarte , V. Joshi , G. J. Kunde , J. Lee , H. Leon Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis-Raya , J. Lundeen , K. Malone , O. Martinez , J. Martınez-Castro , J. A. Matthews , E. Moreno , M. Mostafa , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nellen , A. Peisker , E. G. Perez-Perez , C. D. Rho , D. Rosa-Gonzalez , H. Salazar , D. Salazar-Gallegos , A. Sandoval , J. Serna-Franco , R. W. Springer , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , R. Torres-Escobedo , R. Turner , F. Urena-Mena , L. Villasenor , X. Wang , H. Zhou , C. de Leon

First HAWC Spectra of Galactic Gamma-ray Sources Above 100 TeV and the Implications for Cosmic-ray Acceleration

We present the first catalogs of the highest-energy (above 56 TeV and 100 TeV) gamma-ray sources seen by the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory. The wide field-of-view of HAWC naturally lends itself to unbiased all-sky surveys…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Kelly Malone

First HAWC Observations of the Sun Constrain Steady TeV Gamma-Ray Emission

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

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Observations of Cosmic Rays

We describe measurements of GeV and TeV cosmic rays with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory, or HAWC. The measurements include the observation of the shadow of the moon; the observation of small-scale and large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-02 HAWC Collaboration , 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 , E. Belmont , S. Y. BenZvi , D. Berley , M. Bonilla Rosales , J. Braun , R. A. Caballero-Lopez , K. S. Caballero-Mora , A. Carramiñana , M. Castillo , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , E. de la Fuente , C. De León , T. DeYoung , R. Diaz Hernandez , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , R. W. Ellsworth , A. Fernandez , D. W. Fiorino , N. Fraija , A. Galindo , F. Garfias , L. X. González , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , V. Grabski , M. Gussert , Z. Hampel-Arias , C. M. Hui , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Imran , A. Iriarte , P. Karn , D. Kieda , G. J. Kunde , A. Lara , R. J. Lauer , W. H. Lee , D. Lennarz , H. León Vargas , E. C. Linares , J. T. Linnemann , M. Longo , R. Luna-GarcIa , A. Marinelli , H. Martinez , O. Martinez , J. Martínez-Castro , J. A. J. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , J. Nava , L. Nellen , M. Newbold , R. Noriega-Papaqui , T. Oceguera-Becerra , B. Patricelli , R. Pelayo , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , J. Pretz , C. Rivière , D. Rosa-González , H. Salazar , F. Salesa , F. E. Sanchez , A. Sandoval , E. Santos , M. Schneider , S. Silich , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , K. Sparks , R. W. Springer , I. Taboada , P. A. Toale , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , T. N. Ukwatta , L. Villaseñor , T. Weisgarber , S. Westerhoff , I. G. Wisher , J. Wood , G. B. Yodh , P. W. Younk , D. Zaborov , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou

Monitoring TeV blazars with HAWC

The recently completed High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory has been taking data with a partial array for more than one year and is now operating with >95% duty cycle in its full configuration. With an instantaneous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Robert J. Lauer , Patrick W. Younk

A search for gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane in the longitude range between 37 deg and 43 deg

Using the HEGRA system of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, a region of the Galactic plane (-10 deg < b < 5 deg, 38 deg < l < 43 deg) was surveyed for TeV gamma-ray emission, both from point sources and of diffuse nature. The region…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 HEGRA-Collaboration , F. Aharonian

Monitoring the Variable Gamma-Ray Sky with HAWC

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory monitors the gamma-ray sky at energies between 100 GeV and 100 TeV with a wide field of view of $\sim 2$ steradians. A duty cycle of $\sim 90$% allows HAWC to scan two thirds of the sky…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Robert J. Lauer

Diffuse emission from stochastic sources

Diffuse emission in gamma-rays and neutrinos are produced by the interaction of cosmic rays with the interstellar medium. Below some hundreds of TeV, the sources of these cosmic rays are most likely Galactic. Hence, observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Anton Stall , Philipp Mertsch

A Survey of TeV emission from Galactic Supernova Remnants with HAWC

Supernova remnants (SNRs) have long been hypothesized as the main source of Galactic Cosmic Rays up to PeV energies. Some of them have indeed been shown to accelerate protons to TeV energies and above. But which of them are indeed efficient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-22 Henrike Fleischhack

Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission from GeV to PeV energies in light of up-to-date cosmic ray measurements

The diffuse gamma-ray emission between 10 and 1000 TeV from the Galactic plane was recently measured by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO). These observations will help tremendously in constraining the propagation and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-06 Rui Zhang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Zhi-Hui Xu , Shiping Zhao , Qiang Yuan

Observation of radio galaxies with HAWC

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory is an extensive air shower array located in Puebla, Mexico. The closest radio galaxy within the HAWC field of view, M87, has been detected in very high energies. In this work we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Daniel Avila Rojas , Rubén Alfaro , Antonio Galván , María Magdalena González , Nissim Fraija , Marc Klinger

The Sensitivity of HAWC to High-Mass Dark Matter Annihilations

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a wide field-of-view detector sensitive to gamma rays of 100 GeV to a few hundred TeV. Located in central Mexico at 19 degrees North latitude and 4100 m above sea level, HAWC will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-17 A. U. Abeysekara , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , J. D. Alvarez , R. Arceo , J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez , H. A. Ayala Solares , A. S. Barber , B. M. Baughman , N. Bautista-Elivar , J. Becerra Gonzalez , E. Belmont , S. Y. BenZvi , D. Berley , M. Bonilla Rosales , J. Braun , R. A. Caballero-Lopez , K. S. Caballero-Mora , A. Carraminana , M. Castillo , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , E. de la Fuente , C. De Leon , T. DeYoung , R. Diaz Hernandez , L. Diaz-Cruz , J. C. Diaz-Velez , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , R. W. Ellsworth , S. F. E. , D. W. Fiorino , N. Fraija , A. Galindo , F. Garfias , M. M. Gonzalez , J. A. Goodman , V. Grabski , M. Gussert , Z. Hampel-Arias , J. P. Harding , C. M. Hui , P. Huentemeyer , A. Imran , A. Iriarte , P. Karn , D. Kieda , G. J. Kunde , A. Lara , R. J. Lauer , W. H. Lee , D. Lennarz , H. Leon Vargas , E. C. Linares , J. T. Linnemann , M. Longo , R. Luna-Garcia , A. Marinelli , H. Martinez , O. Martinez , J. Martinez-Castro , J. A. J. Matthews , J. McEnery , E. Mendoza Torres , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , E. Moreno , M. Mostafa , L. Nellen , M. Newbold , R. Noriega-Papaqui , T. Oceguera-Becerra , B. Patricelli , R. Pelayo , E. G. Perez-Perez , J. Pretz , C. Riviere , D. Rosa-Gonzalez , J. Ryan , H. Salazar , F. Salesa , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , S. Silich , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , K. Sparks Woodle , R. W. Springer , I. Taboada , P. A. Toale , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , T. N. Ukwatta , L. Villasenor , T. Weisgarber , S. Westerhoff , I. G. Wisher , J. Wood , G. B. Yodh , P. W. Younk , D. Zaborov , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou , K. N. Abazajian

The Cygnus arm of our galaxy is a source-rich and complex region hosting multiple gamma-ray source types such as pulsar wind nebulae (PWN), supernova remnants, binary systems, and star clusters. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-13 Binita Hona , Andrew Robare , Henrike Fleischhack , Petra Huentemeyer

The $\gamma$-ray Milky Way above 10 GeV: Distinguishing Sources from Diffuse Emission

One of the most prominent features of the $\gamma$-ray sky is the emission from our own Galaxy. The Galactic plane has been observed by Fermi-LAT in GeV and H.E.S.S. in TeV light. Fermi has modeled the Galactic emission as the sum of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-09 Ellis Owen , Christoph Deil , Axel Donath , Régis Terrier

Measuring High-Energy Spectra with HAWC

The High-Altitude Water-Cherenkov (HAWC) experiment is a TeV $\gamma$-ray observatory located \unit[4100]{m} above sea level on the Sierra Negra mountain in Puebla, Mexico. The detector consists of 300 water-filled tanks, each instrumented…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-14 Samuel Stephens Marinelli , Jordan Goodman

Limit on an Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Population with HAWC

Data from 105 days from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) have been used to place a new limit on an isotropic diffuse gamma-ray population above 10 TeV. High- energy isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission is produced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-18 John Pretz