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most citedExtended gamma-ray sources around pulsars constrain the origin of the positron flux at Earth

528 citations

87 papers

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.HE2025

The first 10years of the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: science results

Anna Lia Longinotti, HAWC Collaboration

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory, located on the slopes of the Sierra Negra volcano in Mexico, began operations in March 2015. Over the past decade, HAWC has en…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

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…

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

A curvilinear framework for vector light fields

Leonardo S. Gonzalez-Aceves, Gabriela Flores-Cova, Blas M. Rodríguez-Lara +4

Vector beams are often regarded as non-separable superpositions of spatial and polarization degrees of freedom that satisfy the wave equation. This interpretation ties their polari…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

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.HE2025★ 5 cited

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…

quant-ph2024

Noisy Cyclic Quantum Random Walk

G. Juarez Rangel, B. M. Rodríguez-Lara

We explore static noise in a discrete quantum random walk over a homogeneous cyclic graph, focusing on spectral and dynamical properties. Using a three-parameter unitary coin, we c…

physics.ed-ph2024★ 1 cited

Decoding physics identity: A Spanish-language adaptation on an instrument and its correlation with STEM achievement

O. I. González-Peña, G. Morán-Soto, B. M. Rodríguez-Lara

The representation of Spanish-speaking students in STEM identity literature, particularly in physics identity, is conspicuously minimal. This study addresses this gap with a two-pr…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Orbital Angular Momentum Coherent State Beams

D. Aguirre-Olivas, G. Mellado-Villaseñor, B. Perez-Garcia +1

We explore a family of paraxial beams constructed by the linear superposition of Laguerre-Gaussian beams, representing an optical analogue to generalized Lie group coherent…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 50 cited

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…

physics.optics2024★ 4 cited

Majorana constellations for optical scalar beams and vector fields

F. Torres-Leal, E. García Herrera, M. P. Morales Rodríguez +2

We explore Majorana stellar representation on the Riemann sphere for optical scalar beams and vector fields, leveraging the spin and orbital angular momentum of light. For scalar b…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 3 cited

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.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…

physics.optics2024★ 9 cited

Spatial light mode analogues of generalized quantum coherent states

M. P. Morales Rodríguez, E. García Herrera, O. Magaña Loaiza +3

We use the spatial degree of freedom of light modes to construct optical analogues of generalized quantum coherent states for Hermite- and Laguerre-Gauss modes. Our optical analogu…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

A supersymmetry journey from the Jaynes-Cummings to the anisotropic Rabi model

A. Kafuri, F. H. Maldonado-Villamizar, A. Moroz +1

We revisit the Jaynes-Cummings and anti-Jaynes-Cummings model through the lens of Lie theory, aiming to highlight the efficacy of an operator-based approach for diagonalization. We…

physics.optics2023★ 4 cited

Harmonic motion modes in parabolic GRIN fibers

A. Collado Hernández, F. Marroquín, B. M. Rodríguez-Lara

We report electromagnetic field modes solving the inhomogeneous Maxwell equations for parabolic gradient index fibers in the low refractive index contrast approximation. The first…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

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…

quant-ph2023★ 10 cited

Coherent states of the Laguerre-Gauss modes

M. P. Morales Rodríguez, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, B. Perez-Garcia +3

Large quantum photonic systems hold promise for surpassing classical computational limits, yet their state preparation remains a challenge. We propose an alternative approach to st…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

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…

quant-ph2023

Optical coupling control of isolated mechanical resonators

F. E. Onah, B. R. Jaramillo-Ávila, F. H. Maldonado-Villamizar +1

We present a Hamiltonian model describing two pairs of mechanical and optical modes under standard optomechanical interaction. The vibrational modes are mechanically isolated from…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Continuous-time quantum harmonic oscillator state engineering

E. García Herrera, F. Torres-Leal, B. M. Rodríguez-Lara

The center of mass motion of trapped ions and neutral atoms is suitable for approximation by a time-dependent driven quantum harmonic oscillator whose frequency and driving strengt…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 65 cited

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.HE2023★ 7 cited

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.HE2023★ 10 cited

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…