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astro-ph.HE2024★ 4 cited

Disentangling the X-ray variability in the Lyman continuum emitter Haro 11

A. Danehkar, S. Silich, E. C. Herenz +1

Lyman break analogs in the local Universe serve as counterparts to Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at high redshifts, which are widely regarded as major contributors to cosmic reioniza…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 46 cited

Milagro Limits and HAWC Sensitivity for the Rate-Density of Evaporating Primordial Black Holes

A. A. Abdo, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +118

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are gravitationally collapsed objects that may have been created by density fluctuations in the early universe and could have arbitrarily small masses…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 53 cited

The Sensitivity of HAWC to High-Mass Dark Matter Annihilations

A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +101

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a wide field-of-view detector sensitive to gamma rays of 100 GeV to a few hundred TeV. Located in central Mexico at 19 degre…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 6 cited

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Dark Matter, Cosmology, and Fundamental Physics

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +99

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma Ray Observatory (HAWC) is designed to perform a synoptic survey of the TeV sky. The high energy coverage of the experiment will enable studi…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 4 cited

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Observations of Cosmic Rays

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +99

We describe measurements of GeV and TeV cosmic rays with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory, or HAWC. The measurements include the observation of the shadow of…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 5 cited

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Sensitivity to Steady and Transient Sources of Gamma Rays

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +99

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory is designed to record air showers produced by cosmic rays and gamma rays between 100 GeV and 100 TeV. Because of its…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 214 cited

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

A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +97

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is an array of large water Cherenkov detectors sensitive to gamma rays and hadronic cosmic rays in the energy band between 100…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 129 cited

On the sensitivity of the HAWC observatory to gamma-ray bursts

HAWC collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, J. A. Aguilar +145

We present the sensitivity of HAWC to Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). HAWC is a very high-energy gamma-ray observatory currently under construction in Mexico at an altitude of 4100 m. It…