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

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astro-ph.HE2026

A Multiwavelength Interpretation of HESS J1857+026 Emission Using the Fermi-LAT, VERITAS, and HAWC Observatories

Jordan Eagle, Yu Chen, Ramiro Torres-Escobedo +2

We present a new study on the MeV-TeV gamma-ray origin of HESS J1857+026 using data collected from the Fermi-LAT, VERITAS, and HAWC observatories. A spatial and spectral study of H…

astro-ph.HE2026

Constraints on Axion-Like Particles from Ultra-High-Energy Observations of 3HWC J1908+063 with HAWC

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andres +92

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles and compelling candidates for cold dark matter. Their existence could be probed through their conversions into photons in the…

astro-ph.HE2025

Probing the mass composition of TeV cosmic rays with HAWC

J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez

In this contribution, we have investigated the energy spectra of the elemental mass groups of cosmic rays for the Light (H+He), medium (C+O) and heavy (Ne-Fe) components using the…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

HAWC, VERITAS, Fermi-LAT and XMM-Newton follow-up observations of the unidentified ultra-high-energy gamma-ray source LHAASO J2108+5157

The VERITAS collaboration, C. B. Adams, P. Bangale +142

We report observations of the ultra-high-energy gamma-ray source LHAASO J21085157, utilizing VERITAS, HAWC, Fermi-LAT, and XMM-Newton. VERITAS has collected 40 hours of d…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Longtime Monitoring of TeV Radio Galaxies with HAWC

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, E. Anita-Rangel +85

We present the monitoring of the TeV-emitting radio galaxies M87, NGC~1275, 3C~264, and IC~310 with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) over a period of approximat…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Extended TeV Halos May Commonly Exist around Middle-Aged Pulsars

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +81

Extended gamma-ray emission around isolated pulsars at TeV energies, also known as TeV halos, have been found around a handful of middle-aged pulsars. The halos are significantly m…

astro-ph.HE2025

Study of the IC 443 region with the HAWC observatory

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, M. Araya +89

Supernova remnants are one potential source class considered a PeVatron (i.e. capable of accelerating cosmic rays above PeV energies). The shock fronts produced after the explosion…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 11 cited

Spectral study of very high energy gamma rays from SS 433 with HAWC

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +78

Very-high-energy (0.1-100 TeV) gamma-ray emission was observed in HAWC data from the lobes of the microquasar SS 433, making them the first set of astrophysical jets that were reso…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 50 cited

Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Bubble around Microquasar V4641 Sgr

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +89

Microquasars are laboratories for the study of jets of relativistic particles produced by accretion onto a spinning black hole. Microquasars are near enough to allow detailed imagi…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

Multiwavelength Investigation of -ray Source MGRO J1908+06 Emission Using Fermi-LAT, VERITAS, and HAWC

The VERITAS collaboration, The HAWC collaboration, LAT collaboration

This paper investigates the origin of the -ray emission from MGRO J1908+06 in the GeV-TeV energy band. By analyzing the data collected by {\it Fermi}-LAT, VERITAS, and HAWC, wit…

astro-ph.HE2024

Observation of the Galactic Center PeVatron Beyond 100 TeV with HAWC

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +99

We report an observation of ultra-high energy (UHE) gamma rays from the Galactic Center region, using seven years of data collected by the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Obse…

astro-ph.HE2024

Analysis of the Emission and Morphology of the Pulsar Wind Nebula Candidate HAWC J2031+415

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +78

The first TeV gamma-ray source with no lower energy counterparts, TeV J2032+4130, was discovered by HEGRA. It appears in the third HAWC catalog as 3HWC J2031+415 and it is a bright…

astro-ph.HE2023

The HAWC ultra-high-energy gamma-ray map with more than 5 years of data

Kelly Malone, José Andrés García González, Patrick Harding

In 2020, the HAWC Collaboration presented the first catalog of gamma-ray sources emitting above 56 TeV and 100 TeV. With nine sources detected, this was the highest-energy source c…

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 updated survey of Active Galaxies with the HAWC gamma-ray observatory

Fernando Ureña-Mena, Alberto Carramiñana, Daniel Rosa-González +2

We present an update of the survey of Active Galaxies with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory. This work adds 567 days of HAWC data to the previously pu…

astro-ph.HE2023

Study of the long-term Very High Energy emission of the blazars 1ES 1215+3031 and VER J0521+211 with the HAWC gamma-ray observatory

Fernando Ureña-Mena, Alberto Carramiñana, Anna Lia Longinotti +2

Blazars are the most abundant type of extragalactic gamma-ray source, usually presenting high variability across the electromagnetic spectrum. Their Very High Energy (VHE, above 0.…

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.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…

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.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…