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Closure Relations of Synchrotron Self-Compton from Reverse shock and Fermi-LAT GRBs
Nissim Fraija, B. Betancourt Kamenetskaia, Antonio Galván Gámez +2
Synchrotron radiation from the reverse- and forward-shock regions typically describes the evolution of temporal and spectral features given by the closure relations (CRs) during th…
Comparing HAWC blazars light curves with different data reconstruction versions
J. A. García-González, M. M. González
We present a comparison of the flux normalization of HAWC sources using 17 months of data that was processed using two different versions of the official data reconstruction used f…
HAWC Study of Very-High-Energy -ray Spectrum of HAWC J1844-034
HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, C. Alvarez +74
Recently, the region surrounding eHWC J1842-035 has been studied extensively by gamma-ray observatories due to its extended emission reaching up to a few hundred TeV and potential…
Search for Decaying Dark Matter in the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies with HAWC
A. Albert, R. Alfaro, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +55
The decay or annihilation of dark matter particles may produce a steady flux of very-high-energy gamma rays detectable above the diffuse background. Nearby clusters of galaxies pro…
A Contribution of the HAWC Observatory to the TeV era in the High Energy Gamma-Ray Astrophysics: The case of the TeV-Halos
Ramiro Torres-Escobedo, Hao Zhou, Eduardo de la Fuente +130
We present a short overview of the TeV-Halos objects as a discovery and a relevant contribution of the High Altitude Water Čerenkov (HAWC) observatory to TeV astrophysics. We discu…
The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory in México: The Primary Detector
A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +140
The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a second-generation continuously operated, wide field-of-view, TeV gamma-ray observatory. The HAWC observatory and its analy…
Detailed Analysis of the TeV γ-Ray Sources 3HWC J1928+178, 3HWC J1930+188, and the New Source HAWC J1932+192
A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +91
The latest High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) point-like source catalog up to 56 TeV reported the detection of two sources in the region of the Galactic plane at galactic longitu…
Searching for TeV Dark Matter in Irregular dwarf galaxies with HAWC Observatory
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +69
We present the results of dark matter (DM) searches in a sample of 31 dwarf irregular (dIrr) galaxies within the field of view of the HAWC Observatory. dIrr galaxies are DM dominat…
HAWC Detection of a TeV Halo Candidate Surrounding a Radio-quiet pulsar
A. Albert, R. Alfaro, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +59
Extended very-high-energy (VHE; 0.1-100 TeV) -ray emission has been observed around several middle-aged pulsars and referred to as ``TeV halos". Their formation mechanism remain…
High Altitude characterization of the Hunga Pressure Wave with Cosmic Rays by the HAWC Observatory
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +64
High-energy cosmic rays that hit the Earth can be used to study large-scale atmospheric perturbations. After a first interaction in the upper parts of the atmosphere, cosmic rays p…
A measurement of the proton plus helium spectrum of cosmic rays in the TeV region with HAWC
HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +74
HAWC is an air-shower detector designed to study TeV gamma and cosmic rays. The observatory is composed of a array of water Cherenkov tanks ( deep x…
Limits on the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background above 10 TeV with HAWC
HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +87
The high-energy Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background (DGRB) is expected to be produced by unresolved isotropically distributed astrophysical objects, potentially including dark matter anni…
Search for Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Coincidences Using HAWC and ANTARES Data
H. A. Ayala Solares, S. Coutu, D. Cowen +228
In the quest for high-energy neutrino sources, the Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) has implemented a new search by combining data from the High Altitude Wat…
Constraints on the very high energy gamma-ray emission from short GRBs with HAWC
A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +87
Many gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been observed from radio wavelengths, and a few at very-high energies (VHEs, > 100GeV). The HAWC gamma-ray observatory is well suited to study tra…
Gamma/Hadron Separation with the HAWC Observatory
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. D. Álvarez +90
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory observes atmospheric showers produced by incident gamma rays and cosmic rays with energy from 300 GeV to more than 10…
Cosmic ray spectrum of protons plus helium nuclei between 6 TeV and 158 TeV from HAWC data
HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +74
A measurement with high statistics of the differential energy spectrum of light elements in cosmic rays, in particular, of primary H plus He nuclei, is reported. The spectrum is pr…
Study of the Very High Energy emission of M87 through its broadband spectral energy distribution
HAWC Collaboration, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +63
The radio galaxy M87 is the central dominant galaxy of the Virgo Cluster. Very High Energy (VHE, TeV) emission, from M87 has been detected by Imaging Air Cherenkov Tel…
HAWC Study of the Ultra-High-Energy Spectrum of MGRO J1908+06
HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +97
We report TeV gamma-ray observations of the ultra-high-energy source MGRO J1908+06 using data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory. This source is one of the h…
Particle Acceleration in the Cygnus Superbubble
B. Hona
The Cygnus Cocoon is the first gamma-ray superbubble powered by a massive stellar association, the OB2 association. It was postulated that the combined effects of the stellar winds…
Characterization of the background for a neutrino search with the HAWC observatory
HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +59
The close location of the HAWC observatory to the largest volcano in Mexico allows to perform a search for neutrino-induced horizontal muon and tau charged leptons. The section of…
Horizontal muon track identification with neural networks in HAWC
J. R. Angeles Camacho, H. León Vargas
Nowadays the implementation of artificial neural networks in high-energy physics has obtained excellent results on improving signal detection. In this work we propose to use neural…
TeV emission of Galactic plane sources with HAWC and H.E.S.S
H. Abdalla, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +318
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) are two leading instruments in the ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray d…
Long-term spectra of the blazars Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 at TeV energies seen by HAWC
A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +75
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory surveys the very high energy sky in the 300 GeV to TeV energy range. HAWC has detected two blazars above …
HAWC observations of the acceleration of very-high-energy cosmic rays in the Cygnus Cocoon
A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +98
Cosmic rays with energies up to a few PeV are known to be accelerated within the Milky Way. Traditionally, it has been presumed that supernova remnants were the main source of very…