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astro-ph.HE2017★ 70 cited

Constraining the properties of the magnetic turbulence in the Geminga region using HAWC -ray data

Rubén López-Coto, Gwenael Giacinti

Observations of extended gamma-ray emission around Galactic cosmic-ray (CR) sources can be used as novel probes of interstellar magnetic fields. Using very-high-energy gamma-ray da…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 528 cited

Extended gamma-ray sources around pulsars constrain the origin of the positron flux at Earth

A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +113

The unexpectedly high flux of cosmic ray positrons detected at Earth may originate from nearby astrophysical sources, dark matter, or unknown processes of cosmic-ray secondary prod…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 65 cited

A Search for Dark Matter in the Galactic Halo with HAWC

A. U. Abeysekara, A. M. Albert, R. Alfaro +100

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is a wide field-of-view observatory sensitive to 500 GeV - 100 TeV gamma rays and cosmic rays. With its observations…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 253 cited

Science with e-ASTROGAM (A space mission for MeV-GeV gamma-ray astrophysics)

A. De Angelis, V. Tatischeff, I. A. Grenier +248

e-ASTROGAM (enhanced ASTROGAM) is a breakthrough Observatory space mission, with a detector composed by a Silicon tracker, a calorimeter, and an anticoincidence system, dedicated t…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 93 cited

All-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum measured by the HAWC experiment from 10 to 500 TeV

HAWC Collaboration, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +98

We report on the measurement of the all-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory in the energy range 10 to 500 TeV. HAWC is a g…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 15 cited

Effect of the diffusion parameters on the observed gamma-ray spectrum of sources and their contribution to the local all-electron spectrum: the EDGE code

R. López-Coto, J. Hahn, S. BenZvi +5

The positron excess measured by PAMELA and AMS can only be explained if there is one or several sources injecting them. Moreover, at the highest energies, it requires the presence…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 10 cited

Contributions of the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), Busan, Korea

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +256

Index of H.E.S.S. conference proceedings to the 35th ICRC, Busan, Korea

astro-ph.HE2017

Constraining the Diffusion Coefficient with HAWC TeV Gamma-Ray Observations of Two Nearby Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Hao Zhou, Rubén López-Coto, Francisco Salesa Greus

Nearby electron/positron accelerators, mostly Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe), have been proposed as potential origins of the positron excess above 10 GeV. The HAWC Observatory reveals…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 1 cited

Constraining the Origin of Local Positrons with HAWC TeV Gamma-Ray Observations of Two Nearby Pulsar Wind Nebulae

F. Salesa Greus, S. Casanova, B. Dingus +2

The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory has reported the discovery of TeV gamma-ray emission extending several degrees around the positions of Geminga and B0656+14 pulsars. Assuming these g…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 6 cited

Morphological and spectral measurements of 2HWC J1928+177 with HAWC and H.E.S.S

R. Lopez-Coto, V. Marandon, F. Brun

2HWC J1928+177 is a source recently discovered at TeV energies in the second HAWC catalog. It is coincident with the Fermi unidentified source 3FGL J1928+1739 and the pulsar PSR J1…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 74 cited

Characterising the VHE diffuse emission in the central 200 parsecs of our Galaxy with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +256

The diffuse very high-energy (VHE, > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission observed in the central 200 pc of the Milky Way by H.E.S.S. was found to follow the dense matter distribution in th…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 110 cited

Dark Matter Limits From Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +78

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is a wide field of view observatory sensitive to 500 GeV - 100 TeV gamma rays and cosmic rays. It can also perform di…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 18 cited

Systematic search for very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from bow shocks of runaway stars

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +260

Runaway stars form bow shocks by ploughing through the interstellar medium at supersonic speeds and are promising sources of non-thermal emission of photons. One of these objects h…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 15 cited

Search for very-high-energy emission from Gamma-ray Bursts using the first 18 months of data from the HAWC Gamma-ray Observatory

The HAWC collaboration, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +102

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-ray Observatory is an extensive air shower detector operating in central Mexico, which has recently completed its first two years of…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 23 cited

Prospects for CTA observations of the young SNR RX J1713.7-3946

The CTA Consortium, :, F. Acero +381

We perform simulations for future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observations of RX~J1713.73946, a young supernova remnant (SNR) and one of the brightest sources ever discovere…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 163 cited

The population of TeV pulsar wind nebulae in the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +255

The nine-year H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey (HGPS) yielded the most uniform observation scan of the inner Milky Way in the TeV gamma-ray band to date. The sky maps and source cata…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 59 cited

Daily monitoring of TeV gamma-ray emission from Mrk 421, Mrk 501, and the Crab Nebula with HAWC

A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +104

We present results from daily monitoring of gamma rays in the energy range to TeV with the first 17 months of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC)…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 41 cited

Search for Very High Energy Gamma Rays from the Northern Bubble Region with HAWC

A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +108

We present a search of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the Northern Bubble region using data collected with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 20 cited

MAGIC detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the low-luminosity blazar 1ES 1741+196

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +159

We present the first detection of the nearby (z=0.084) low-luminosity BL Lac object 1ES 1741+196 in the very high energy (VHE: E100 GeV) band. This object lies in a triplet of i…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 326 cited

The 2HWC HAWC Observatory Gamma Ray Catalog

A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +108

We present the first catalog of TeV gamma-ray sources realized with the recently completed High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC). It is the most sensitive wide field-of-…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 51 cited

Multiwavelength follow-up of a rare IceCube neutrino multiplet

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +501

On February 17 2016, the IceCube real-time neutrino search identified, for the first time, three muon neutrino candidates arriving within 100 s of one another, consistent with comi…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 347 cited

Observation of the Crab Nebula with the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory

A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +104

The Crab Nebula is the brightest TeV gamma-ray source in the sky and has been used for the past 25 years as a reference source in TeV astronomy, for calibration and verification of…