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Constraining the Photon Intensity of Extragalactic Background Light with the HAWC Observatory for the Blazar Mrk 421
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andrés +79
The blazar Mrk 421 exhibits rapid variability over a wide range of timescales. Spectral differences have been observed during the different emission states of Mrk 421. During the h…
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…
A Multi-messenger Search for Ultra-high-energy Gamma Rays in Coincidence with Neutrinos
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andrés +101
The last five years have shown us that ultra-high-energy (UHE; 100 TeV) gamma-ray sources are ubiquitous, but the nature of these sources remain highly uncertain. UHE gamma rays…
HAWC Study on the Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emissions from the Pulsar Wind Nebula G32.64+0.53
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, E. Anita-Rangel +91
Multi-TeV gamma-ray emission around eHWC J1850+001 (a source from the first HAWC catalog of gamma-ray sources emitting above 56 TeV) is spatially coincident with the pulsar wind ne…
Investigating IceCube Neutrino Alerts with the HAWC -Ray Observatory
The HAWC Collaboration, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +95
Neutrino emission from astrophysical sources has long been considered a signature of cosmic-ray acceleration. The IceCube neutrino observatory has observed a diffuse flux of TeV-Pe…
Improved Heavy Dark Matter Annihilation Search from Dwarf Galaxies with HAWC
A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +103
Understanding dark matter's elusive nature is crucial for the framework of particle physics and expanding the Standard Model. This analysis utilizes the High Altitude Water Cherenk…
Search for Signatures of Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Center with HAWC
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andrés +109
We conduct an indirect dark matter (DM) search in the Galactic Center, focusing on a square region within in Galactic longitude and latutide, using 2,865 days of da…
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…
Science Prospects for the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory: SWGO
SWGO Collaboration, P. Abreu, R. Alfaro +303
Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is now well established as a key observational approach to address critical topics at the frontiers of astroparticle physics and high-energy astrop…
Orbital Modulation of Gamma-Rays Beyond 100 TeV from LS 5039
R. Alfaro, M. Araya, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +88
Gamma-ray binaries are systems composed of a compact object orbiting a massive companion star. The interaction between these two objects can drive relativistic outflows, either jet…
Study of long-term spectral evolution and X-ray and Gamma-ray correlation of blazars seen by HAWC
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andrés +94
The HAWC Observatory collected 6 years of extensive data, providing an ideal platform for long-term monitoring of blazars in the Very High Energy (VHE) band, without bias towards s…
TeV Analysis of a Source Rich Region with HAWC Observatory: Is HESS J1809-193 a Potential Hadronic PeVatron?
A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +79
HESS J1809-193 is an unidentified TeV source, first detected by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) Collaboration. The emission originates in a source-rich region that i…
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…
Cosmic-ray energy reconstruction using machine learning techniques
A. Alvarado, T. Capistrán, I. Torres +2
HAWC is a ground-based observatory consisting of 300 water Cherenkov detectors, which observes the extensive air showers induced by cosmic rays from some TeV to a few PeV and, in p…
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…
A Contribution of the HAWC Observatory to the TeV era in the High Energy Gamma-Ray Astrophysics: The case of the TeV-Halos
Ramiro Torres-Escobedo, Hao Zhou, Eduardo de la Fuente +130
We present a short overview of the TeV-Halos objects as a discovery and a relevant contribution of the High Altitude Water Čerenkov (HAWC) observatory to TeV astrophysics. We discu…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Validation of standardized data formats and tools for ground-level particle-based gamma-ray observatories
A. Albert, R. Alfaro, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +74
Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is still a rather young field of research, with strong historical connections to particle physics. This is why most observations are conducted by e…