output
20042022
most citedObservation of the Crab Nebula with the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory

347 citations

76 papers

astro-ph.GA2022★ 20 cited

PASSAGES: The Large Millimeter Telescope and ALMA Observations of Extremely Luminous High Redshift Galaxies Identified by the Planck

Derek A. Berman, Min S. Yun, K. C. Harrington +20

The Planck All-Sky Survey to Analyze Gravitationally-lensed Extreme Starbursts (PASSAGES) project aims to identify a population of extremely luminous galaxies using the Planck All-…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 14 cited

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.HE2022★ 10 cited

-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-ra…

physics.space-ph2021★ 17 cited

A fast bow shock location predictor-estimator from 2D and 3D analytical models: Application to Mars and the MAVEN mission

C. Simon Wedlund, M. Volwerk, A. Beth +5

We present fast algorithms to automatically estimate the statistical position of the bow shock from spacecraft data, using existing analytical two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimens…

hep-ex2021★ 4 cited

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…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 2 cited

Plasma vortices driven by magnetic torsion generated by electric currents in non-magnetic planetary wakes

Hector Javier Durand-Manterola, Alberto Flandes, Hector Perez-de-Tejada

In non-collisional magnetized astrophysical plasmas, vortices can form as it is the case of the Venus plasma wake where Lundin et al. (2013) identified a large vortex through the i…

physics.space-ph2021★ 24 cited

Making waves: Mirror Mode structures around Mars observed by the MAVEN spacecraft

Cyril Simon Wedlund, Martin Volwerk, Christian Mazelle +4

We present an in-depth analysis of a time interval when quasi-linear mirror mode structures were detected by magnetic field and plasma measurements as observed by the NASA/Mars Atm…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 21 cited

Causes of jets in the quasi-perpendicular magnetosheath

Primož Kajdič, Savvas Raptis, Xóchitl Blanco-Cano +1

Magnetosheath jets are currently an important topic in the field of magnetosheath physics. It is thought that 97~\% of the jets are produced by the shock rippling at quasi-parallel…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 25 cited

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 …

astro-ph.SR2021★ 10 cited

Numerical simulations of macrospicule jets under energy imbalance conditions in the solar atmosphere

J. J. González-Avilés, K. Murawski, A. K. Srivastava +2

Using numerical simulations, we study the effects of thermal conduction and radiative cooling on the formation and evolution of solar jets with some macrospicules features. We init…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 113 cited

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.HE2021★ 2 cited

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.HE2021★ 15 cited

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.HE2021★ 39 cited

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.HE2020★ 6 cited

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.HE2020★ 22 cited

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.HE2020★ 15 cited

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.HE2020★ 214 cited

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.EP2020★ 5 cited

The reliability of the Titius-Bode relation and its implications for the search for exoplanets

Patricia Lara, Guadalupe Cordero-Tercero, Christine Allen

The major semiaxes of the planets in our Solar System obey a simple geometric progression known as the Titius-Bode Relation (TBR), whose physical origin remains disputed. It has be…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 3 cited

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.SR2020★ 6 cited

Space, time and velocity association of successive coronal mass ejections

Alejandro Lara. Nat Gopalswamy, Tatiana Niembro, Román Pérez-Enríquez +1

Our aim is to investigate the possible physical association between consecutive coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Through a statistical study of the main characteristics of 27761 CMEs…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 31 cited

Search for Gamma-ray Spectral Lines from Dark Matter Annihilation in Dwarf Galaxies with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory

The HAWC Collaboration

Local dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are nearby dark-matter dominated systems, making them excellent targets for searching for gamma rays from particle dark matter interactions.…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 69 cited

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.HE2019★ 37 cited

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…