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most citedSensitivity of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Detector to Sources of Multi-TeV Gamma Rays

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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.HE2024

XMM-Newton Ultra Narrow Deep Field survey II: X-ray spectral analysis of the brightest AGN population

M. Elías-Chávez, A. L. Longinotti, Y. Krongold +6

In this work, we present the results of a detailed X-ray spectral analysis of the brightest AGNs detected in the XMM-Newton 1.75 Ms Ultra Narrow Deep Field. We analyzed 23 AGNs tha…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 6 cited

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★ 1 cited

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.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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 22 cited

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 remain…

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

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…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 2 cited

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.HE2022

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.HE2022★ 5 cited

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.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…

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.HE2021

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.HE2021

Modeling the non-flaring VHE emission from M87 as detected by the HAWC gamma ray observatory

Fernando Ureña-Mena, Alberto Carramiñana, Anna Lia Longinotti +1

M87 is a giant radio galaxy located in the Virgo Cluster, known to be a very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray source. As radio galaxies are considered the misaligned low-redshift counte…

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★ 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.HE2019★ 12 cited

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.HE2019

Spectral analysis of the blazars Markarian 421 and Markarian 501 with the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory

Sara Coutiño de León, Alberto Carramiñana Alonso, Daniel Rosa-González +1

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory surveys the very high energy sky in the to 100 TeV energy range and has detected two high-synchrotron-peake…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 59 cited

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.HE2019★ 10 cited

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.HE2017★ 51 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 2 cited

Selection of AGN to study the extragalactic background light with HAWC

Sara Coutiño De León, Alberto Carramiñana Alonso, Daniel Rosa-González

The extragalactic background light (EBL) is all the electromagnetic energy released by resolved and unresolved extragalactic sources since the recombination era. Its intensity and…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 3 cited

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.