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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

Probing the mass composition of TeV cosmic rays with HAWC

J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez

In this contribution, we have investigated the energy spectra of the elemental mass groups of cosmic rays for the Light (H+He), medium (C+O) and heavy (Ne-Fe) components using the…

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.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…

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.HE2024★ 11 cited

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.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…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

Multiwavelength Investigation of -ray Source MGRO J1908+06 Emission Using Fermi-LAT, VERITAS, and HAWC

The VERITAS collaboration, The HAWC collaboration, LAT collaboration

This paper investigates the origin of the -ray emission from MGRO J1908+06 in the GeV-TeV energy band. By analyzing the data collected by {\it Fermi}-LAT, VERITAS, and HAWC, wit…

astro-ph.HE2023

Comparing HAWC blazars light curves with different data reconstruction versions

J. A. García-González, M. M. González

We present a comparison of the flux normalization of HAWC sources using 17 months of data that was processed using two different versions of the official data reconstruction used f…

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…

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…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 31 cited

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…

hep-ex2021★ 1 cited

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

Celine Armand, Eric Charles, Mattia di Mauro +13

Cosmological and astrophysical observations suggest that 85\% of the total matter of the Universe is made of Dark Matter (DM). However, its nature remains one of the most challengi…

astro-ph.HE2021

Particle Acceleration in the Cygnus Superbubble

B. Hona

The Cygnus Cocoon is the first gamma-ray superbubble powered by a massive stellar association, the OB2 association. It was postulated that the combined effects of the stellar winds…

astro-ph.HE2021

The all-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum measured with HAWC

J. A. Morales-Soto, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez

Thanks to recent technological development, a new generation of cosmic ray experiments have been developed with more sensitivity to study these particles in the primary energy inte…

astro-ph.HE2021

Monitoring the radio galaxy M87 with HAWC

T. Capistrán, D. Avila Rojas, M. M. González +2

Studies of radio galaxies at TeV energies are fascinating because their jets are misaligned concerning our sightline. Thus, it provides us with a unique opportunity to study the st…

physics.ins-det2021

Horizontal muon track identification with neural networks in HAWC

J. R. Angeles Camacho, H. León Vargas

Nowadays the implementation of artificial neural networks in high-energy physics has obtained excellent results on improving signal detection. In this work we propose to use neural…

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★ 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.HE2020★ 66 cited

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.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.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…