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

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43 papers

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

A general approach to bridge the reality-gap

Michael Lomnitz, Zigfried Hampel-Arias, Nina Lopatina +1

Employing machine learning models in the real world requires collecting large amounts of data, which is both time consuming and costly to collect. A common approach to circumvent t…

cs.CR2019★ 1 cited

Reducing audio membership inference attack accuracy to chance: 4 defenses

Michael Lomnitz, Nina Lopatina, Paul Gamble +4

It is critical to understand the privacy and robustness vulnerabilities of machine learning models, as their implementation expands in scope. In membership inference attacks, adver…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 12 cited

HAWC Contributions to the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2019)

A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +127

List of proceedings from the HAWC Collaboration presented at the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 24 July - 1 August 2019, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

cs.LG2019★ 9 cited

Robust or Private? Adversarial Training Makes Models More Vulnerable to Privacy Attacks

Felipe A. Mejia, Paul Gamble, Zigfried Hampel-Arias +4

Adversarial training was introduced as a way to improve the robustness of deep learning models to adversarial attacks. This training method improves robustness against adversarial…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 59 cited

All-Sky Measurement of the Anisotropy of Cosmic Rays at 10 TeV and Mapping of the Local Interstellar Magnetic Field

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +400

We present the first full-sky analysis of the cosmic ray arrival direction distribution with data collected by the HAWC and IceCube observatories in the Northern and Southern hemis…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 10 cited

MAGIC and Fermi-LAT gamma-ray results on unassociated HAWC sources

M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +336

The HAWC Collaboration released the 2HWC catalog of TeV sources, in which 19 show no association with any known high-energy (HE; E > 10 GeV) or very-high-energy (VHE; E > 300 GeV)…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 153 cited

Very high energy particle acceleration powered by the jets of the microquasar SS 433

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert +104

SS 433 is a binary system containing a supergiant star that is overflowing its Roche lobe with matter accreting onto a compact object (either a black hole or neutron star). Two jet…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 39 cited

VERITAS and Fermi-LAT observations of new HAWC sources

VERITAS Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, A. Archer +280

The HAWC (High Altitude Water Cherenkov) collaboration recently published their 2HWC catalog, listing 39 very high energy (VHE; >100~GeV) gamma-ray sources based on 507 days of obs…

hep-ph2018★ 57 cited

Constraints on Spin-Dependent Dark Matter Scattering with Long-Lived Mediators from TeV Observations of the Sun with HAWC

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +91

We analyze the Sun as a source for the indirect detection of dark matter through a search for gamma rays from the solar disk. Capture of dark matter by elastic interactions with th…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 32 cited

First HAWC Observations of the Sun Constrain Steady TeV Gamma-Ray Emission

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

Steady gamma-ray emission up to at least 200 GeV has been detected from the solar disk in the Fermi-LAT data, with the brightest, hardest emission occurring during solar minimum. T…

physics.data-an2018

PyUnfold: A Python Package for Iterative Unfolding

James Bourbeau, Zigfried Hampel-Arias

PyUnfold is a Python package for incorporating imperfections of the measurement process into a data analysis pipeline. In an ideal world, we would have access to the perfect detect…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 45 cited

Observation of Anisotropy of TeV Cosmic Rays with Two Years of HAWC

A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +98

After two years of operation, the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory has analyzed the TeV cosmic-ray sky over an energy range between and TeV. The HAWC d…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 14 cited

Search for Dark Matter Gamma-ray Emission from the Andromeda Galaxy with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +97

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is a nearby (780 kpc) galaxy similar to our own Milky Way. Observational evidence suggests that it resides in a large halo of dark matter (DM), mak…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 15 cited

Constraining the Ratio in TeV Cosmic Rays with Observations of the Moon Shadow by HAWC

A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +98

An indirect measurement of the antiproton flux in cosmic rays is possible as the particles undergo deflection by the geomagnetic field. This effect can be measured by studying the…

astro-ph.HE2018

Estimate of the energy spectrum of the light component of cosmic rays in HAWC using the shower age and the fraction of hit PMT's

J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, Z. Hampel-Arias, J. D. Álvarez

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a ground-based air-shower detector designed to study the TeV gamma and cosmic ray windows. The observatory is composed of a…

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★ 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.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.HE2017★ 6 cited

HAWC Contributions to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017)

A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +123

List of proceedings from the HAWC Collaboration presented at the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 12 July - 20 July 2017, Bexco, Busan, Korea.

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★ 17 cited

The HAWC real-time flare monitor for rapid detection of transient events

A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +105

We present the development of a real-time flare monitor for the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory. The flare monitor has been fully operational since 2017 January an…

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★ 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)…