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Publications (79)

astro-ph.HE2018

Very high energy particle acceleration powered by the jets of the microquasar SS 433

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert +104

SS 433 is a binary system containing a supergiant star that is overflowing its Roche lobe with matter accreting onto a compact object (either a black hole or neutron star). Two jet…

astro-ph.HE2022

-ray Emission from Classical Nova V392 Per: Measurements from Fermi and HAWC

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +84

This paper reports on the -ray properties of the 2018 Galactic nova V392 Per, spanning photon energies 0.1 GeV to 100 TeV by combining observations from the Fermi Gamma-r…

astro-ph.HE2020

HAWC J2227+610 and its association with G106.3+2.7, a new potential Galactic PeVatron

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +97

We present the detection of VHE gamma-ray emission above 100 TeV from HAWC J2227+610 with the HAWC observatory. Combining our observations with previously published results by VERI…

astro-ph.HE2024

Observation of the Galactic Center PeVatron Beyond 100 TeV with HAWC

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +99

We report an observation of ultra-high energy (UHE) gamma rays from the Galactic Center region, using seven years of data collected by the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Obse…

hep-ex2022

Characterization of the background for a neutrino search with the HAWC observatory

HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +59

The close location of the HAWC observatory to the largest volcano in Mexico allows to perform a search for neutrino-induced horizontal muon and tau charged leptons. The section of…

astro-ph.HE2021

Probing the Sea of Cosmic Rays by Measuring Gamma-Ray Emission from Passive Giant Molecular Clouds with HAWC

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +87

The study of high-energy gamma rays from passive Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in our Galaxy is an indirect way to characterize and probe the paradigm of the "sea" of cosmic rays i…

astro-ph.HE2022

Gamma/Hadron Separation with the HAWC Observatory

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. D. Álvarez +90

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory observes atmospheric showers produced by incident gamma rays and cosmic rays with energy from 300 GeV to more than 10…

astro-ph.HE2026

Improved Heavy Dark Matter Annihilation Search from Dwarf Galaxies with HAWC

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +103

Understanding dark matter's elusive nature is crucial for the framework of particle physics and expanding the Standard Model. This analysis utilizes the High Altitude Water Cherenk…

astro-ph.HE2023

HAWC Detection of a TeV Halo Candidate Surrounding a Radio-quiet pulsar

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +59

Extended very-high-energy (VHE; 0.1-100 TeV) -ray emission has been observed around several middle-aged pulsars and referred to as ``TeV halos". Their formation mechanism remai…

astro-ph.SR2021

Interplanetary magnetic flux rope observed at ground level by HAWC

S. Akiyama, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +59

We report the ground-level detection of a Galactic Cosmic-Ray (GCR) flux enhancement lasting 17 hr and associated with the passage of a magnetic flux rope (MFR) over the Ear…

astro-ph.HE2021

3HWC: The Third HAWC Catalog of Very-High-Energy Gamma-ray Sources

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +104

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 surve…

astro-ph.HE2026

Constraining the Photon Intensity of Extragalactic Background Light with the HAWC Observatory for the Blazar Mrk 421

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andrés +79

The blazar Mrk 421 exhibits rapid variability over a wide range of timescales. Spectral differences have been observed during the different emission states of Mrk 421. During the h…

astro-ph.HE2022

A measurement of the proton plus helium spectrum of cosmic rays in the TeV region with HAWC

HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +74

HAWC is an air-shower detector designed to study TeV gamma and cosmic rays. The observatory is composed of a array of water Cherenkov tanks ( deep x…

hep-ph2018

Constraints on Spin-Dependent Dark Matter Scattering with Long-Lived Mediators from TeV Observations of the Sun with HAWC

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +91

We analyze the Sun as a source for the indirect detection of dark matter through a search for gamma rays from the solar disk. Capture of dark matter by elastic interactions with th…

astro-ph.HE2026

HAWC Study on the Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emissions from the Pulsar Wind Nebula G32.64+0.53

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, E. Anita-Rangel +90

Multi-TeV gamma-ray emission around eHWC J1850+001 (a source from the first HAWC catalog of gamma-ray sources emitting above 56 TeV) is spatially coincident with the pulsar wind ne…

astro-ph.HE2020

Constraints on Lorentz invariance violation from HAWC observations of gamma rays above 100 TeV

HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +90

Due to the high energies and long distances to the sources, astrophysical observations provide a unique opportunity to test possible signatures of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV…

astro-ph.HE2023

Galactic Gamma-Ray Diffuse Emission at TeV energies with HAWC Data

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez +77

The Galactic gamma-ray diffuse emission (GDE) is emitted by cosmic rays (CRs), ultra-relativistic protons and electrons, interacting with gas and electromagnetic radiation fields i…

astro-ph.HE2021

Spectrum and Morphology of the Very-High-Energy Source HAWC J2019+368

HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +80

The MGRO J2019+37 region is one of the brightest sources in the sky at TeV energies. It was detected in the 2 year HAWC catalog as 2HWC J2019+367 and here we present a detailed stu…

astro-ph.HE2017

A Search for Dark Matter in the Galactic Halo with HAWC

A. U. Abeysekara, A. M. Albert, R. Alfaro +100

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is a wide field-of-view observatory sensitive to 500 GeV - 100 TeV gamma rays and cosmic rays. With its observations…

astro-ph.HE2022

Limits on the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background above 10 TeV with HAWC

HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +87

The high-energy Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background (DGRB) is expected to be produced by unresolved isotropically distributed astrophysical objects, potentially including dark matter anni…

astro-ph.HE2020

Multiple Galactic Sources with Emission Above 56 TeV Detected by HAWC

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert +99

We present the first catalog of gamma-ray sources emitting above 56 and 100 TeV with data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory, a wide field-of-view observator…

astro-ph.HE2025

Search for joint multimessenger signals from potential galactic cosmic-ray accelerators with HAWC and IceCube

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +489

The origin of high-energy galactic cosmic rays is yet to be understood, but some galactic cosmic-ray accelerators can accelerate cosmic rays up to PeV energies. The high-energy cos…

astro-ph.HE2023

Search for Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Coincidences Using HAWC and ANTARES Data

H. A. Ayala Solares, S. Coutu, D. Cowen +228

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 Wat…

astro-ph.HE2023

Detailed Analysis of the TeV γ-Ray Sources 3HWC J1928+178, 3HWC J1930+188, and the New Source HAWC J1932+192

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +91

The latest High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) point-like source catalog up to 56 TeV reported the detection of two sources in the region of the Galactic plane at galactic longitu…

astro-ph.HE2024

Search for Decaying Dark Matter in the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies with HAWC

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +55

The decay or annihilation of dark matter particles may produce a steady flux of very-high-energy gamma rays detectable above the diffuse background. Nearby clusters of galaxies pro…

astro-ph.HE2025

Longtime Monitoring of TeV Radio Galaxies with HAWC

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, E. Anita-Rangel +85

We present the monitoring of the TeV-emitting radio galaxies M87, NGC~1275, 3C~264, and IC~310 with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) over a period of approximat…

astro-ph.HE2024

TeV Analysis of a Source Rich Region with HAWC Observatory: Is HESS J1809-193 a Potential Hadronic PeVatron?

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +79

HESS J1809-193 is an unidentified TeV source, first detected by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) Collaboration. The emission originates in a source-rich region that i…

astro-ph.HE2021

HAWC observations of the acceleration of very-high-energy cosmic rays in the Cygnus Cocoon

A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +98

Cosmic rays with energies up to a few PeV are known to be accelerated within the Milky Way. Traditionally, it has been presumed that supernova remnants were the main source of very…

astro-ph.HE2024

Performance of the HAWC Observatory and TeV Gamma-Ray Measurements of the Crab Nebula with Improved Extensive Air Shower Reconstruction Algorithms

A . Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +90

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory located on the side of the Sierra Negra volcano in Mexico, has been fully operational since 2015. The HAWC collaborat…

astro-ph.HE2021

Study of the Very High Energy emission of M87 through its broadband spectral energy distribution

HAWC Collaboration, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +63

The radio galaxy M87 is the central dominant galaxy of the Virgo Cluster. Very High Energy (VHE, TeV) emission, from M87 has been detected by Imaging Air Cherenkov Tel…

astro-ph.HE2026

Search for TeV emission from spider millisecond pulsars with HAWC

R. Alfaro, E. Anita-Rangel, M. Araya +90

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are observed to emit multi-wavelength radiation, from radio to GeV. Spider MSPs, which interact with their low-mass companion in close orbit (orbital per…

astro-ph.HE2022

Cosmic ray spectrum of protons plus helium nuclei between 6 TeV and 158 TeV from HAWC data

HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +74

A measurement with high statistics of the differential energy spectrum of light elements in cosmic rays, in particular, of primary H plus He nuclei, is reported. The spectrum is pr…

astro-ph.HE2018

Observation of Anisotropy of TeV Cosmic Rays with Two Years of HAWC

A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +98

After two years of operation, the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory has analyzed the TeV cosmic-ray sky over an energy range between and TeV. The HAWC d…

astro-ph.HE2023

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

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +63

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 detecto…

astro-ph.HE2020

HAWC and Fermi-LAT Detection of Extended Emission from the Unidentified Source 2HWC J2006+341

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +71

The discovery of the TeV point source 2HWC J2006+341 was reported in the second HAWC gamma-ray catalog. We present a follow-up study of this source here. The TeV emission is best d…

astro-ph.HE2019

MAGIC and Fermi-LAT gamma-ray results on unassociated HAWC sources

M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +336

The HAWC Collaboration released the 2HWC catalog of TeV sources, in which 19 show no association with any known high-energy (HE; E > 10 GeV) or very-high-energy (VHE; E > 300 GeV)…

astro-ph.IM2022

Validation of standardized data formats and tools for ground-level particle-based gamma-ray observatories

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +74

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is still a rather young field of research, with strong historical connections to particle physics. This is why most observations are conducted by e…

astro-ph.HE2020

Evidence of 200 TeV photons from HAWC J1825-134

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +81

The Earth is bombarded by ultra-relativistic particles, known as cosmic rays (CRs). CRs with energies up to a few PeV (=10 eV), the knee in the particle spectrum, are believ…

astro-ph.HE2026

Search for Signatures of Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Center with HAWC

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andrés +109

We conduct an indirect dark matter (DM) search in the Galactic Center, focusing on a square region within in Galactic longitude and latutide, using 2,865 days of da…

astro-ph.HE2024

Testing the Molecular Cloud Paradigm for Ultra-High-Energy Gamma Ray Emission from the Direction of SNR G106.3+2.7

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +87

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to be capable of accelerating cosmic rays (CRs) to PeV energies. SNR G106.3+2.7 is a prime PeVatron candidate. It is formed by a head region,…

astro-ph.HE2021

Evidence that Ultra-High-Energy Gamma Rays are a Universal Feature Near Powerful Pulsars

HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +97

The highest-energy known gamma-ray sources are all located within 0.5 degrees of extremely powerful pulsars. This raises the question of whether ultra-high-energy (UHE; 56 TeV)…

astro-ph.IM2025

HAWC Performance Enhanced by Machine Learning in Gamma-Hadron Separation

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andrés +92

Improving gamma-hadron separation is one of the most effective ways to enhance the performance of ground-based gamma-ray observatories. With over a decade of continuous operation,…

astro-ph.HE2025

HAWC, VERITAS, Fermi-LAT and XMM-Newton follow-up observations of the unidentified ultra-high-energy gamma-ray source LHAASO J2108+5157

The VERITAS collaboration, C. B. Adams, P. Bangale +142

We report observations of the ultra-high-energy gamma-ray source LHAASO J21085157, utilizing VERITAS, HAWC, Fermi-LAT, and XMM-Newton. VERITAS has collected 40 hours of d…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Multi-messenger Search for Ultra-high-energy Gamma Rays in Coincidence with Neutrinos

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andrés +101

The last five years have shown us that ultra-high-energy (UHE; 100 TeV) gamma-ray sources are ubiquitous, but the nature of these sources remain highly uncertain. UHE gamma rays…

astro-ph.HE2022

Constraints on the very high energy gamma-ray emission from short GRBs with HAWC

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +87

Many gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been observed from radio wavelengths, and a few at very-high energies (VHEs, > 100GeV). The HAWC gamma-ray observatory is well suited to study tra…

astro-ph.HE2025

Orbital Modulation of Gamma-Rays Beyond 100 TeV from LS 5039

R. Alfaro, M. Araya, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +88

Gamma-ray binaries are systems composed of a compact object orbiting a massive companion star. The interaction between these two objects can drive relativistic outflows, either jet…

astro-ph.HE2019

All-Sky Measurement of the Anisotropy of Cosmic Rays at 10 TeV and Mapping of the Local Interstellar Magnetic Field

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +400

We present the first full-sky analysis of the cosmic ray arrival direction distribution with data collected by the HAWC and IceCube observatories in the Northern and Southern hemis…

astro-ph.HE2025

Combined dark matter search towards dwarf spheroidal galaxies with Fermi-LAT, HAWC, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS

LAT Collaboration, S. Abdollahi, L. Baldini +586

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for indirect dark matter (DM) searches using gamma-ray telescopes because they are thought to have high DM content and a low…

astro-ph.HE2025

Absence of TeV halos around millisecond pulsars

A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +82

TeV halos are extended very-high-energy (VHE; 0.1-100 TeV) gamma-ray emission around middle-aged pulsars. So far they have only been found around isolated pulsars, but it has been…

astro-ph.HE2023

A Contribution of the HAWC Observatory to the TeV era in the High Energy Gamma-Ray Astrophysics: The case of the TeV-Halos

Ramiro Torres-Escobedo, Hao Zhou, Eduardo de la Fuente +130

We present a short overview of the TeV-Halos objects as a discovery and a relevant contribution of the High Altitude Water Čerenkov (HAWC) observatory to TeV astrophysics. We disc…

astro-ph.HE2023

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory in México: The Primary Detector

A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +140

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a second-generation continuously operated, wide field-of-view, TeV gamma-ray observatory. The HAWC observatory and its analy…

astro-ph.HE2025

Study of the IC 443 region with the HAWC observatory

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, M. Araya +89

Supernova remnants are one potential source class considered a PeVatron (i.e. capable of accelerating cosmic rays above PeV energies). The shock fronts produced after the explosion…

astro-ph.IM2021

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

H. Abdalla, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +318

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 d…

astro-ph.HE2026

The Fourth HAWC Catalog of Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, E. Anita-Rangel +87

We present an updated catalog of TeV gamma-ray sources based on the fifth pass of data from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory. This release benefits from improve…

astro-ph.HE2025

Study of long-term spectral evolution and X-ray and Gamma-ray correlation of blazars seen by HAWC

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andrés +94

The HAWC Observatory collected 6 years of extensive data, providing an ideal platform for long-term monitoring of blazars in the Very High Energy (VHE) band, without bias towards s…

astro-ph.HE2023

HAWC Study of Very-High-Energy -ray Spectrum of HAWC J1844-034

HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, C. Alvarez +74

Recently, the region surrounding eHWC J1842-035 has been studied extensively by gamma-ray observatories due to its extended emission reaching up to a few hundred TeV and potential…

astro-ph.HE2018

VERITAS and Fermi-LAT observations of new HAWC sources

VERITAS Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, A. Archer +280

The HAWC (High Altitude Water Cherenkov) collaboration recently published their 2HWC catalog, listing 39 very high energy (VHE; >100~GeV) gamma-ray sources based on 507 days of obs…

astro-ph.HE2020

Constraints on the Emission of Gamma Rays from M31 with HAWC

HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +82

Cosmic rays, along with stellar radiation and magnetic fields, are known to make up a significant fraction of the energy density of galaxies such as the Milky Way. When cosmic rays…

astro-ph.HE2019

HAWC Contributions to the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2019)

A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +127

List of proceedings from the HAWC Collaboration presented at the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 24 July - 1 August 2019, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

astro-ph.HE2026

Constraints on Axion-Like Particles from Ultra-High-Energy Observations of 3HWC J1908+063 with HAWC

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andres +92

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles and compelling candidates for cold dark matter. Their existence could be probed through their conversions into photons in the…

astro-ph.HE2025

Extended TeV Halos May Commonly Exist around Middle-Aged Pulsars

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +81

Extended gamma-ray emission around isolated pulsars at TeV energies, also known as TeV halos, have been found around a handful of middle-aged pulsars. The halos are significantly m…

astro-ph.HE2021

HAWC Search for High-Mass Microquasars

HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +87

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…

astro-ph.HE2022

HAWC Study of the Ultra-High-Energy Spectrum of MGRO J1908+06

HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +97

We report TeV gamma-ray observations of the ultra-high-energy source MGRO J1908+06 using data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory. This source is one of the h…

astro-ph.HE2024

Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Bubble around Microquasar V4641 Sgr

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +89

Microquasars are laboratories for the study of jets of relativistic particles produced by accretion onto a spinning black hole. Microquasars are near enough to allow detailed imagi…

astro-ph.HE2018

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

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +92

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. T…

astro-ph.HE2023

Searching for TeV Dark Matter in Irregular dwarf galaxies with HAWC Observatory

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +69

We present the results of dark matter (DM) searches in a sample of 31 dwarf irregular (dIrr) galaxies within the field of view of the HAWC Observatory. dIrr galaxies are DM dominat…

astro-ph.HE2021

Multimessenger Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Coincidence Alerts using HAWC and IceCube sub-threshold Data

H. A. Ayala Solares, S. Coutu, J. J. DeLaunay +446

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) and IceCube observatories, through the Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) framework, have developed a multimessenger j…

astro-ph.HE2026

Constraints on axion-like particles from ultra-high-energy observations of M87 with the HAWC observatory

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andrés +95

In this work, we perform an indirect search for axion-like particles (ALPs) through their hypothesized mixing with photons in the presence of magnetic fields. ALPs are a well-motiv…

astro-ph.HE2024

Analysis of the Emission and Morphology of the Pulsar Wind Nebula Candidate HAWC J2031+415

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +78

The first TeV gamma-ray source with no lower energy counterparts, TeV J2032+4130, was discovered by HEGRA. It appears in the third HAWC catalog as 3HWC J2031+415 and it is a bright…

astro-ph.HE2026

Investigating IceCube Neutrino Alerts with the HAWC -Ray Observatory

The HAWC Collaboration, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +95

Neutrino emission from astrophysical sources has long been considered a signature of cosmic-ray acceleration. The IceCube neutrino observatory has observed a diffuse flux of TeV-Pe…

astro-ph.HE2023

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

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +89

We report the first detection of a TeV gamma-ray flux from the solar disk (6.3), based on 6.1 years of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory. The 0.5--…

astro-ph.HE2019

Searching for Dark Matter Sub-structure with HAWC

A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +75

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 satellit…

astro-ph.HE2024

Spectral study of very high energy gamma rays from SS 433 with HAWC

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +78

Very-high-energy (0.1-100 TeV) gamma-ray emission was observed in HAWC data from the lobes of the microquasar SS 433, making them the first set of astrophysical jets that were reso…

astro-ph.HE2019

Measurement of the Crab Nebula Spectrum Past 100 TeV with HAWC

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert +102

We present TeV gamma-ray observations of the Crab Nebula, the standard reference source in ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, using data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC…

astro-ph.HE2020

Constraining the Local Burst Rate Density of Primordial Black Holes with HAWC

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +84

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) may have been created by density fluctuations in the early Universe and could be as massive as solar masses or as small as the Planck mass. I…

astro-ph.HE2022

High Altitude characterization of the Hunga Pressure Wave with Cosmic Rays by the HAWC Observatory

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +64

High-energy cosmic rays that hit the Earth can be used to study large-scale atmospheric perturbations. After a first interaction in the upper parts of the atmosphere, cosmic rays p…

astro-ph.HE2022

Long-term spectra of the blazars Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 at TeV energies seen by HAWC

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +75

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory surveys the very high energy sky in the 300 GeV to TeV energy range. HAWC has detected two blazars above $11σ…

astro-ph.HE2020

A survey of active galaxies at TeV photon energies with the HAWC gamma-ray observatory

A. Albert, C. Alvarez, J. R. Angeles Camacho +86

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory (HAWC) continuously detects TeV photons and particles within its large field-of-view, accumulating every day a deeper exposu…

astro-ph.HE2018

Constraining the Ratio in TeV Cosmic Rays with Observations of the Moon Shadow by HAWC

A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +98

An indirect measurement of the antiproton flux in cosmic rays is possible as the particles undergo deflection by the geomagnetic field. This effect can be measured by studying the…