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ALTO is a wide field-of-view air shower detector array for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, proposed to be installed in the Southern Hemisphere at an altitude of about 5.1 km above sea level. The array will use water Cherenkov…

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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.…

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The planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future observatory for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy composed of one site per hemisphere. It aims at 10 times better sensitivity, a better angular resolution and wider energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Y. Becherini , B. Khélifi , S. Pita , M. Punch

Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) detect very high energetic (VHE) gamma rays. They observe the Cherenkov light emitted in electromagnetic shower cascades that gamma rays induce in the atmosphere. A precise reconstruction of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-01 Fabian Leuschner , Johannes Schäfer , Simon Steinmassl , Tim Lukas Holch , Konrad Bernlöhr , Stefan Funk , Jim Hinton , Stefan Ohm , Gerd Pühlhofer

The Large High-Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) is being built at Haizi Mountain, Sichuan province of China at an altitude of 4410 meters. One of its main goals is to survey the northern sky for very-high-energy gamma ray sources…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-29 Kun Jiang , Zebo Tang , Xin Li , Zehua Cao , Cheng Li , Yang Li , Ziwei Li , Ziyang Li , Zheng Liang , Pengzhong Lu , Kaifeng Shen , Kaiyang Wang , Yan Wang , Xin Wu

The High Altitude Detection of Astronomical Radiation (HADAR) experiment is a refracting terrestrial telescope array based on the atmospheric Cherenkov imaging technique. It focuses the Cherenkov light emitted by extensive air showers…

Recent findings by the LHAASO experiment are opening a new window, that of the PeV sky, to the observation of the electromagnetic spectrum. Several astronomical objects emitting gamma-rays at energies well above 100 TeV have been observed…

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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

The Fermi Bubbles have been imaged in sub-TeV gamma rays at Fermi-LAT, and, if their origin is hadronic, they might have been seen with low statistics in $\sim 0.1- 1$ PeV neutrinos at IceCube. We discuss the detectability of these objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-22 Cecilia Lunardini , Soebur Razzaque , Lili Yang

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

GWAC will have been built an integrated FOV of 5,000 $degree^2$ and have already built 1,800 square $degree^2$. The limit magnitude of a 10-second exposure image in the moonless night is 16R. In each observation night, GWAC produces about…

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Time and charge measurements over a large dynamic range from 1 Photo Electron (P.E.) to 4000 P.E. are required for the Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA), which is one of the key components in the Large High Altitude Air Shower…

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Pachmarhi Array of \v{C}erenkov Telescopes (PACT) has been designed to search for celestial TeV $\gamma-$rays using the wavefront sampling technique. PACT, located at Pachmarhi, (latitude 22$^\circ$ 28$^\prime$ N, longitude 76$^\circ$…

In 2020, the HAWC Collaboration presented the first catalog of gamma-ray sources emitting above 56 TeV and 100 TeV. With nine sources detected, this was the highest-energy source catalog to date. Here, we present the results of re-analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-03 Kelly Malone , José Andrés García González , Patrick Harding

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)…

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In the quest for high-energy neutrino sources, the Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) has implemented a new search by combining data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory and the Astronomy with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 H. A. Ayala Solares , S. Coutu , D. Cowen , D. B. Fox , T. Grégoire , F. McBride , M. Mostafá , K. Murase , S. Wissel , A. Albert , S. Alves , M. André , M. Ardid , S. Ardid , J. -J. Aubert , J. Aublin , B. Baret , S. Basa , B. Belhorma , M. Bendahman , F. Benfenati , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , M. Bissinger , J. Boumaaza , M. Bouta , M. C. Bouwhuis , H. Brânzaş , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , J. Busto , B. Caiffi , D. Calvo , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr , V. Carretero , S. Celli , M. Chabab , T. N. Chau , R. Cherkaoui El Moursli , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , J. A. B. Coelho , A. Coleiro , R. Coniglione , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , A. F. Díaz , G. de Wasseige , B. De Martino , C. Distefano , I. Di Palma , A. Domi , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , D. Drouhin , T. Eberl , T. van Eeden , D. van Eijk , N. El Khayati , A. Enzenhöfer , P. Fermani , G. Ferrara , F. Filippini , L. Fusco , J. García , P. Gay , H. Glotin , R. Gozzini , R. Gracia Ruiz , K. Graf , C. Guidi , S. Hallmann , H. van Haren , A. J. Heijboer , Y. Hello , J. J. Hernández-Rey , J. Hößl , J. Hofestädt , F. Huang , G. Illuminati , C. W. James , B. Jisse-Jung , M. de Jong , P. de Jong , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , U. Katz , A. Kouchner , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Lahmann , M. Lamoureux , R. Le Breton , D. Lefèvre , E. Leonora , G. Levi , S. Le Stum , D. Lopez-Coto , S. Loucatos , L. Maderer , J. Manczak , M. Marcelin , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , J. A. Martínez-Mora , K. Melis , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa , R. Muller , L. Nauta , S. Navas , E. Nezri , B. Ó Fearraigh , A. Păaun , G. E. Păvălaş , C. Pellegrino , M. Perrin-Terrin , V. Pestel , P. Piattelli , C. Pieterse , C. Poirè , V. Popa , T. Pradier , N. Randazzo , D. Real , S. Reck , G. Riccobene , A. Romanov , A. Sánchez-Losa , D. F. E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , J. Schnabel , J. Schumann , F. Schüssler , J. Seneca , M. Spurio , Th. Stolarczyk , M. Taiuti , Y. Tayalati , S. J. Tingay , B. Vallage , V. Van Elewyck , F. Versari , S. Viola , D. Vivolo , J. Wilms , S. Zavatarelli , A. Zegarelli , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga , A. Albert , C. Alvarez , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , R. Babu , E. Belmont-Moreno , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , U. Cotti , O. Chaparro-Amaro , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , E. De la Fuente , C. de León , R. Diaz Hernandez , M. A. DuVernois , M. Durocher , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , K. Engel , C. Espinoza , K. L. Fan , M. Fernández Alonso , N. Fraija , J. A. García-González , F. Garfias , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , J. P. Harding , S. Hernandez , D. Huang , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , V. Joshi , S. Kaufmann , A. Lara , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis-Raya , K. Malone , O. Martinez , I. Martinez-Castellanos , J. Martínez-Castro , J. A. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , J. A. Morales-Soto , E. Moreno , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nellen , 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 , H. Salazar , F. Salesa Greus , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , A. J. Smith , Y. Son , R. W. Springer , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , R. Torres-Escobedo , R. Turner , F. Ureña-Mena , E. Varela , X. Wang , K. Whitaker , E. Willox , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou

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

High-energy cosmic rays are one of the primary sources of information for scientists investigating the elementary properties of matter. The need to study cosmic rays, with energies thousands of times larger than those encountered in…

The landscape of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is drastically changing with the perspective of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) composed of more than 100 Cherenkov telescopes. For the first time in this energy domain, CTA will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Mathieu Servillat , Catherine Boisson , Julien Lefaucheur , Johan Brégeon , Michèle Sanguillon , Jose-Luis Contreras