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

214 citations · 636 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM2017★ 27 cited

Data Acquisition Architecture and Online Processing System for the HAWC gamma-ray observatory

HAWC collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +105

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory (HAWC) is an air shower array devised for TeV gamma-ray astronomy. HAWC is located at an altitude of 4100 m a.s.l. in Sierra Negra, Me…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 2 cited

The Latin American Giant Observatory: Contributions to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015)

The LAGO Collaboration, W. Alvarez, C. Alvarez +86

The Latin American Giant Observatory (LAGO) is an extended cosmic ray observatory composed by a network of water-Cherenkov detectors spanning over different sites located at signif…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 41 cited

Search for gamma-rays from the unusually bright GRB 130427A with the HAWC Gamma-ray Observatory

The HAWC collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +90

The first limits on the prompt emission from the long gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A in the energy band are reported. GRB 130427A was the most powerful b…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 16 cited

VAMOS: a Pathfinder for the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory

A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +133

VAMOS was a prototype detector built in 2011 at an altitude of 4100m a.s.l. in the state of Puebla, Mexico. The aim of VAMOS was to finalize the design, construction techniques and…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 77 cited

Observation of Small-scale Anisotropy in the Arrival Direction Distribution of TeV Cosmic Rays with HAWC

A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +96

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is sensitive to gamma rays and charged cosmic rays at TeV energies. The detector is still under construction, but data acquisit…

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.IM2013★ 16 cited

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Design, Calibration, and Operation

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

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma Ray Observatory (HAWC) is under construction 4100 meters above sea level at Sierra Negra, Mexico. We describe the design and cabling of the…

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…