Publications (45)
Observations of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave source by the TOROS collaboration
M. C. DÃaz, L. M. Macri, D. Garcia Lambas +52
We present the results of prompt optical follow-up of the electromagnetic counterpart of the gravitational-wave event GW170817 by the Transient Optical Robotic Observatory of the S…
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…
The nuclear and extended infrared emission of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 2992 and the interacting system Arp 245
I. GarcÃa-Bernete, C. Ramos Almeida, J. A. Acosta-Pulido +14
We present subarcsecond resolution infrared (IR) imaging and mid-IR spectroscopic observations of the Seyfert 1.9 galaxy NGC 2992, obtained with the Gemini North Telescope and the…
Water Cherenkov Detectors response to a Gamma Ray Burst in the Large Aperture GRB Observatory
D. Allard, C. Alvarez, H. Asorey +38
In order to characterise the behaviour of Water Cherenkov Detectors (WCD) under a sudden increase of 1 GeV - 1 TeV background photons from a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB), simulations were…
Search for Dark Matter Gamma-ray Emission from the Andromeda Galaxy with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory
A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +97
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is a nearby (780 kpc) galaxy similar to our own Milky Way. Observational evidence suggests that it resides in a large halo of dark matter (DM), mak…
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…
Extended gamma-ray sources around pulsars constrain the origin of the positron flux at Earth
A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +113
The unexpectedly high flux of cosmic ray positrons detected at Earth may originate from nearby astrophysical sources, dark matter, or unknown processes of cosmic-ray secondary prod…
Milagro Limits and HAWC Sensitivity for the Rate-Density of Evaporating Primordial Black Holes
A. A. Abdo, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +118
Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are gravitationally collapsed objects that may have been created by density fluctuations in the early universe and could have arbitrarily small masses…
VAMOS: a Pathfinder for the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory
A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +133
VAMOS was a prototype detector built in 2011 at an altitude of 4100m a.s.l. in the state of Puebla, Mexico. The aim of VAMOS was to finalize the design, construction techniques and…
The starburst-AGN connection in the merger galaxy Mrk 938: an infrared and X-ray view
P. Esquej, A. Alonso-Herrero, A. M. Pérez-GarcÃa +14
Mrk938 is a luminous infrared galaxy in the local Universe believed to be the remnant of a galaxy merger. It shows a Seyfert 2 nucleus and intense star formation according to optic…
Observation of Small-scale Anisotropy in the Arrival Direction Distribution of TeV Cosmic Rays with HAWC
A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +96
The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is sensitive to gamma rays and charged cosmic rays at TeV energies. The detector is still under construction, but data acquisit…
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)…
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…
HAWC Contributions to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017)
A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +123
List of proceedings from the HAWC Collaboration presented at the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 12 July - 20 July 2017, Bexco, Busan, Korea.
The HAWC real-time flare monitor for rapid detection of transient events
A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +105
We present the development of a real-time flare monitor for the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory. The flare monitor has been fully operational since 2017 January an…
The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Observations of Cosmic Rays
HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +99
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…
Daily monitoring of TeV gamma-ray emission from Mrk 421, Mrk 501, and the Crab Nebula with HAWC
A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +104
We present results from daily monitoring of gamma rays in the energy range to TeV with the first 17 months of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC)…
Data Acquisition Architecture and Online Processing System for the HAWC gamma-ray observatory
HAWC collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +105
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory (HAWC) is an air shower array devised for TeV gamma-ray astronomy. HAWC is located at an altitude of 4100 m a.s.l. in Sierra Negra, Me…
Resolving the nuclear dust distribution of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 3081
C. Ramos Almeida, M. Sanchez-Portal, A. M. Perez-Garcia +13
We report far-infrared (FIR) imaging of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 3081 in the range 70-500 micron, obtained with an unprecedented angular resolution, using the Herschel Space Observ…
Observation of the Crab Nebula with the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory
A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +104
The Crab Nebula is the brightest TeV gamma-ray source in the sky and has been used for the past 25 years as a reference source in TeV astronomy, for calibration and verification of…
Operating Water Cherenkov Detectors in high altitude sites for the Large Aperture GRB Observatory
D. Allard, C. Alvarez, H. Asorey +38
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 en…
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…
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…
The Large Aperture GRB Observatory
D. Allard, C. Alvarez, H. Asorey +38
The Large Aperture GRB Observatory (LAGO) is aiming at the detection of the high energy (around 100 GeV) component of Gamma Ray Bursts, using the single particle technique in array…
The Sensitivity of HAWC to High-Mass Dark Matter Annihilations
A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +101
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 degre…
All-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum measured by the HAWC experiment from 10 to 500 TeV
HAWC Collaboration, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +98
We report on the measurement of the all-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory in the energy range 10 to 500 TeV. HAWC is a g…
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…
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…
Multiwavelength follow-up of a rare IceCube neutrino multiplet
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +501
On February 17 2016, the IceCube real-time neutrino search identified, for the first time, three muon neutrino candidates arriving within 100 s of one another, consistent with comi…
Search for Very High Energy Gamma Rays from the Northern Bubble Region with HAWC
A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +108
We present a search of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the Northern Bubble region using data collected with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma…
The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Sensitivity to Steady and Transient Sources of Gamma Rays
HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +99
The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory is designed to record air showers produced by cosmic rays and gamma rays between 100 GeV and 100 TeV. Because of its…
Sensitivity of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Detector to Sources of Multi-TeV Gamma Rays
A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +97
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is an array of large water Cherenkov detectors sensitive to gamma rays and hadronic cosmic rays in the energy band between 100…
Statistical Analysis of Thermal Conductivity Experimentally Measured in Water-Based Nanofluids
J. Tielke, M. Maas, M. Castillo +2
Nanofluids are suspensions of nanoparticles in a base heat-transfer liquid. They have been widely investigated to boost heat transfer since they were proposed in the 1990's. We pre…
Dark Matter Limits From Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory
A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +78
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. It can also perform di…
The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Dark Matter, Cosmology, and Fundamental Physics
HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +99
The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma Ray Observatory (HAWC) is designed to perform a synoptic survey of the TeV sky. The high energy coverage of the experiment will enable studi…
Search for very-high-energy emission from Gamma-ray Bursts using the first 18 months of data from the HAWC Gamma-ray Observatory
The HAWC collaboration, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +102
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-ray Observatory is an extensive air shower detector operating in central Mexico, which has recently completed its first two years of…
The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Design, Calibration, and Operation
HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +99
The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma Ray Observatory (HAWC) is under construction 4100 meters above sea level at Sierra Negra, Mexico. We describe the design and cabling of the…
Complete Integration of Team Project-based Learning into a Database Syllabus
S. Iserte, V. R. Tomas, M. Pérez +3
Team project-based learning (TPBL) combines two learning techniques: project-based learning (PBL) and teamwork. This combination leverages the learning outcomes of both methods and…
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…
The 2HWC HAWC Observatory Gamma Ray Catalog
A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +108
We present the first catalog of TeV gamma-ray sources realized with the recently completed High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC). It is the most sensitive wide field-of-…
Search for gamma-rays from the unusually bright GRB 130427A with the HAWC Gamma-ray Observatory
The HAWC collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +90
The first limits on the prompt emission from the long gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A in the energy band are reported. GRB 130427A was the most powerful b…
On the sensitivity of the HAWC observatory to gamma-ray bursts
HAWC collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, J. A. Aguilar +145
We present the sensitivity of HAWC to Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). HAWC is a very high-energy gamma-ray observatory currently under construction in Mexico at an altitude of 4100 m. It…
Probing the Nuclear and Circumnuclear Activity of NGC1365 in the Infrared
A. Alonso-Herrero, M. Sanchez-Portal, C. Ramos Almeida +12
We present new far-infrared (70-500micron) Herschel PACS and SPIRE imaging observations as well as new mid-IR Gemini/T-ReCS imaging (8.7 and 18.3micron) and spectroscopy of the inn…
HAWC Contributions to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015)
HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +112
List of proceedings from the HAWC Collaboration presented at the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 30 July - 6 August 2015, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Search for TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from Point-like Sources in the Inner Galactic Plane with a Partial Configuration of the HAWC Observatory
A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +95
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…