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most citedObservation of gamma-ray emission from the galaxy M87 above 250 GeV with VERITAS

103 citations · 348 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Constraining possible -ray burst emission from GW230529 using Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM

Samuele Ronchini, Suman Bala, Joshua Wood +35

GW230529 is the first compact binary coalescence detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration with at least one component mass confidently in the lower mass-gap, corresponding to…

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★ 1 cited

An optimized search for dark matter in the galactic halo with HAWC

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +63

The Galactic Halo is a key target for indirect dark matter detection. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a high-energy (~300 GeV to >100 TeV) gamma-ray detecto…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

The NASA Multi-Messenger Astrophysics Science Support Center (MOSSAIC)

Rita M. Sambruna, Joshua E. Schlieder, Daniel Kocevski +10

The era of multi-messenger astrophysics has arrived, leading to key new discoveries and revealing a need for coordination, collaboration, and communication between world-wide commu…

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…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 5 cited

Use of Machine Learning for gamma/hadron separation with HAWC

T. Capistrán, K. L. Fan, J. T. Linnemann +3

Background showers triggered by hadrons represent over 99.9% of all particles arriving at ground-based gamma-ray observatories. An important stage in the data analysis of these obs…

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.HE2019★ 3 cited

Combined Dark Matter searches towards dwarf spheroidal galaxies with Fermi-LAT, HAWC, HESS, MAGIC and VERITAS

Louise Oakes, Celine Armand, Eric Charles +13

The search for Dark Matter (DM) has great potential to reveal physics beyond the Standard Model. As such, searches for evidence of DM particles are being carried out using a wide r…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 69 cited

Fermi and Swift Observations of GRB 190114C: Tracing the Evolution of High-Energy Emission from Prompt to Afterglow

M. Ajello, M. Arimoto, M. Axelsson +147

We report on the observations of gamma-ray burst (GRB) 190114C by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The early-time observations reveal mul…

astro-ph.IM2019

BurstCube: Concept, Performance, and Status

Jacob R. Smith, Michael S. Briggs, Alessandro Bruno +26

The first simultaneous detection of a short gamma-ray burst (SGRB) with a gravitational-wave (GW) signal ushered in a new era of multi-messenger astronomy. In order to increase the…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 8 cited

Large Observatory for x-ray Timing (LOFT-P): A Probe-classs Mission Concept Study

Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, Paul S. Ray, Deepto Chakrabarty +31

LOFT-P is a concept for a NASA Astrophysics Probe-Class (<$1B) X-ray timing mission, based on the LOFT concept originally proposed to ESAs M3 and M4 calls. LOFT-P requires very lar…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 30 cited

A high-level analysis framework for HAWC

Patrick W. Younk, Robert J. Lauer, Giacomo Vianello +4

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory continuously observes gamma-rays between 100 GeV to 100 TeV in an instantaneous field of view of about 2 steradians above the a…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 90 cited

The Multi-Mission Maximum Likelihood framework (3ML)

Giacomo Vianello, Robert J. Lauer, Patrick Younk +7

Astrophysical sources are now observed by many different instruments at different wavelengths, from radio to high-energy gamma-rays, with an unprecedented quality. Putting all thes…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 34 cited

An Experiment to Locate the Site of TeV Flaring in M87

D. E. Harris, F. Massaro, C. C. Cheung +11

We describe a Chandra X-ray ToO project designed to isolate the site of TeV flaring in the radio galaxy M87. To date, we have triggered the Chandra observations only once (2010 Apr…

astro-ph2008★ 103 cited

Observation of gamma-ray emission from the galaxy M87 above 250 GeV with VERITAS

V. A. Acciari, M. Beilicke, G. Blaylock +74

The multiwavelength observation of the nearby radio galaxy M87 provides a unique opportunity to study in detail processes occurring in Active Galactic Nuclei from radio waves to Te…