Cosmic Ray Astrophysics using the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory in México
Por:
De La Fuente E., Díaz-Vélez J.C., Almada A.H., Nigoche-Netro A.
Publicada:
1 ene 2017
Categoría:
Physics and astronomy (miscellaneous)
Resumen:
The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) TeV gamma-ray Observatory in México is ready to search and study gamma-ray emission regions, extremely high-energy cosmic-ray sources, and to identify transient phenomena. With a better Gamma/Hadron rejection method than other similar experiments, it will play a key role in triggering multi-wavelength and multi-messenger studies of active galaxies (AGN), gamma-ray bursts (GRB), supernova remnants (SNR), pulsar wind nebulae (PWN), Galactic Plane Sources, and Cosmic Ray Anisotropies. It has an instantaneous field-of-view of ~2 str, equivalent to 15% of the whole sky and continuous operation (24 hours per day). The results obtained by HAWC-111 (111 detectors in operation) were presented on the proceedings of the International Cosmic Ray Conference 2015 and in [1]. The results obtained by HAWC-300 (full operation) are now under analysis and will be published in forthcoming papers starting in 2017 (see preliminary results on http://www.hawc-observatory.org/news/). Here we present the HAWC contributions on cosmic ray astrophysics via anisotropies studies, summarizing the HAWC detector and its upgrading by the installation of "outriggers". © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences 2016.
Filiaciones:
De La Fuente E.:
Instituto de Astronomía y Meteorología, Departamento. de Física, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías (CUCEI), Universidad de Guadalajara, AV. Vallarta 2602, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Díaz-Vélez J.C.:
Centro Universitario de Los Valles (CUVALLES), Universidad de Guadalajara, Ameca Km. 45.5, Ameca, Jalisco, Mexico
WIPAC and Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CU, Av. Universidad 3000, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Almada A.H.:
Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CU, Av. Universidad 3000, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Nigoche-Netro A.:
Instituto de Astronomía y Meteorología, Departamento. de Física, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías (CUCEI), Universidad de Guadalajara, AV. Vallarta 2602, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
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