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1. HAWC Study of the Ultra-high-energy Spectrum of MGRO J1908+06

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A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. D. Álvarez, J. R. Angeles Camacho, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, D. Avila Rojas, H. A. Ayala Solares, R. Babu, E. Belmont-Moreno, C. Brisbois, K. S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistrán, A. Carramiñana, S. Casanova, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, S. Coutiño de León, E. De la Fuente, C. de León, R. Diaz Hernandez, B. L. Dingus, M. A. DuVernois, M. Durocher, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, K. Engel, C. Espinoza, K. L. Fan, K. Fang, M. Fernández Alonso, N. Fraija, D. Garcia, J. A. García-González, F. Garfias, G. Giacinti, H. Goksu, M. M. González, J. A. Goodman, J. P. Harding, J. Hinton, B. Hona, D. Huang, F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, P. Hüntemeyer, A. Iriarte, A. Jardin-Blicq, V. Joshi, S. Kaufmann, D. Kieda, W. H. Lee, J. Lee, H. León Vargas, J. T. Linnemann, A. L. Longinotti, G. Luis-Raya, K. Malone, V. Marandon, O. Martinez, J. Martínez-Castro, J. A. Matthews, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, J. A. Morales-Soto, E. Moreno, M. Mostafá, A. Nayerhoda, L. Nellen, M. Newbold, M. U. Nisa, R. Noriega-Papaqui, L. Olivera-Nieto, N. Omodei, A. Peisker, Y. Pérez Araujo, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, C. D. Rho, D. Rosa-González, H. Salazar, F. Salesa Greus, A. Sandoval, M. Schneider, H. Schoorlemmer, J. Serna-Franco, A. J. Smith, Y. Son, R. W. Springer, O. Tibolla, K. Tollefson, I. Torres, R. Torres-Escobedo, R. Turner, F. Ureña-Mena, L. Villaseñor, X. Wang, I. J. Watson, E. Willox, A. Zepeda, H. Zhou, M. Breuhaus, H. Li, and H. Zhang

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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, ddc:530, High Energy Physics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

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 highest-energy known gamma-ray sources, with emission extending past 200 TeV. Modeling suggests that the bulk of the TeV gamma-ray emission is leptonic in nature, driven by the energetic radio-faint pulsar PSR J1907+0602. Depending on what assumptions are included in the model, a hadronic component may also be allowed. Using the results of the modeling, we discuss implications for detection prospects by multi-messenger campaigns., Comment: accepted by ApJ, in press

Published
2022

2. Searching for TeV Dark Matter in Irregular dwarf galaxies with HAWC Observatory

Author

R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, D. Avila Rojas, H. A. Ayala Solares, R. Babu, E. Belmont-Moreno, K. S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistrán, A. Carramiñana, S. Casanova, O. Chaparro-Amaro, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, E. De la Fuente, R. Diaz Hernandez, B. L. Dingus, M. A. DuVernois, M. Durocher, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, C. Espinoza, K. L. Fan, N. Fraija, J. A. García-González, F. Garfias, M. M. González, J. P. Harding, S. Hernández-Cadena, D. Huang, F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, A. Iriarte, V. Joshi, S. Kaufmann, D. Kieda, J. Lee, H. León Vargas, J. T. Linnemann, A. L. Longinotti, G. Luis-Raya, K. Malone, O. Martinez, J. Martínez-Castro, J. A. Matthews, E. Moreno, M. Mostafá, A. Nayerhoda, L. Nellen, N. Omodei, Y. Pérez Araujo, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, C. D. Rho, D. Rosa-González, H. Salazar, D. Salazar-Gallegos, A. Sandoval, J. Serna-Franco, Y. Son, R. W. Springer, O. Tibolla, K. Tollefson, I. Torres, R. Torres-Escobedo, R. Turner, F. Ureña-Mena, L. Villaseñor, X. Wang, E. Willox, H. Zhou, C. de León, V. Gammaldi, E. Karukes, and P. Salucci

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Space and Planetary Science, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

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 dominated objects, which astrophysical gamma-ray emission is estimated to be negligible with respect to the secondary gamma-ray flux expected by annihilation or decay of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). While we do not see any statistically significant DM signal in dIrr galaxies, we present the exclusion limits ($95\%~\text{C.L.}$) for annihilation cross-section and decay lifetime for WIMP candidates with masses between $1$ and $100~\text{TeV}$. Exclusion limits from dIrr galaxies are relevant and complementary to benchmark dwarf Spheroidal (dSph) galaxies. In fact, dIrr galaxies are targets kinematically different from benchmark dSph, preserving the footprints of different evolution histories. We compare the limits from dIrr galaxies to those from ultrafaint and classical dSph galaxies previously observed with HAWC. We find that the contraints are comparable to the limits from classical dSph galaxies and $\thicksim2$ orders of magnitude weaker than the ultrafaint dSph limits., Comment: 22 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables

Published
2023
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3. Search for Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Coincidences Using HAWC and ANTARES Data

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H. A. Ayala Solares, S. Coutu, D. Cowen, D. B. Fox, T. Grégoire, F. McBride, M. Mostafá, K. Murase, S. Wissel, A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André, M. Ardid, S. Ardid, J.-J. Aubert, J. Aublin, B. Baret, S. Basa, B. Belhorma, M. Bendahman, F. Benfenati, V. Bertin, S. Biagi, M. Bissinger, J. Boumaaza, M. Bouta, M. C. Bouwhuis, H. Brânzaş, R. Bruijn, J. Brunner, J. Busto, B. Caiffi, D. Calvo, A. Capone, L. Caramete, J. Carr, V. Carretero, S. Celli, M. Chabab, T. N. Chau, R. Cherkaoui El Moursli, T. Chiarusi, M. Circella, J. A. B. Coelho, A. Coleiro, R. Coniglione, P. Coyle, A. Creusot, A. F. Díaz, G. de Wasseige, B. De Martino, C. Distefano, I. Di Palma, A. Domi, C. Donzaud, D. Dornic, D. Drouhin, T. Eberl, T. van Eeden, D. van Eijk, N. El Khayati, A. Enzenhöfer, P. Fermani, G. Ferrara, F. Filippini, L. Fusco, J. García, P. Gay, H. Glotin, R. Gozzini, R. Gracia Ruiz, K. Graf, C. Guidi, S. Hallmann, H. van Haren, A. J. Heijboer, Y. Hello, J. J. Hernández-Rey, J. Hößl, J. Hofestädt, F. Huang, G. Illuminati, C. W. James, B. Jisse-Jung, M. de Jong, P. de Jong, M. Kadler, O. Kalekin, U. Katz, A. Kouchner, I. Kreykenbohm, V. Kulikovskiy, R. Lahmann, M. Lamoureux, R. Le Breton, D. Lefèvre, E. Leonora, G. Levi, S. Le Stum, D. Lopez-Coto, S. Loucatos, L. Maderer, J. Manczak, M. Marcelin, A. Margiotta, A. Marinelli, J. A. Martínez-Mora, K. Melis, P. Migliozzi, A. Moussa, R. Muller, L. Nauta, S. Navas, E. Nezri, B. Ó Fearraigh, A. Păun, G. E. Păvălaş, C. Pellegrino, M. Perrin-Terrin, V. Pestel, P. Piattelli, C. Pieterse, C. Poirè, V. Popa, T. Pradier, N. Randazzo, D. Real, S. Reck, G. Riccobene, A. Romanov, A. Sánchez-Losa, D. F. E. Samtleben, M. Sanguineti, P. Sapienza, J. Schnabel, J. Schumann, F. Schüssler, J. Seneca, M. Spurio, Th. Stolarczyk, M. Taiuti, Y. Tayalati, S. J. Tingay, B. Vallage, V. Van Elewyck, F. Versari, S. Viola, D. Vivolo, J. Wilms, S. Zavatarelli, A. Zegarelli, J. D. Zornoza, J. Zúñiga, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, R. Babu, E. Belmont-Moreno, K. S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistrán, A. Carramiñana, S. Casanova, U. Cotti, O. Chaparro-Amaro, J. Cotzomi, S. Coutiño de León, E. De la Fuente, C. de León, R. Diaz Hernandez, M. A. DuVernois, M. Durocher, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, K. Engel, C. Espinoza, K. L. Fan, M. Fernández Alonso, N. Fraija, J. A. García-González, F. Garfias, M. M. González, J. A. Goodman, J. P. Harding, S. Hernandez, D. Huang, F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, P. Hüntemeyer, A. Iriarte, V. Joshi, S. Kaufmann, A. Lara, H. León Vargas, J. T. Linnemann, A. L. Longinotti, G. Luis-Raya, K. Malone, O. Martinez, I. Martinez-Castellanos, J. Martínez-Castro, J. A. Matthews, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, J. A. Morales-Soto, E. Moreno, A. Nayerhoda, L. Nellen, M. U. Nisa, R. Noriega-Papaqui, N. Omodei, A. Peisker, Y. Pérez Araujo, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, C. D. Rho, D. Rosa-González, E. Ruiz-Velasco, H. Salazar, F. Salesa Greus, A. Sandoval, M. Schneider, A. J. Smith, Y. Son, R. W. Springer, O. Tibolla, K. Tollefson, I. Torres, R. Torres-Escobedo, R. Turner, F. Ureña-Mena, E. Varela, X. Wang, K. Whitaker, E. Willox, A. Zepeda, H. Zhou, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AMON Team, ANTARES, HAWC, Centre Tecnològic de Vilanova i la Geltrú, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. LAB - Laboratori d'Aplicacions Bioacústiques, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA)), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont (LPC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Laboratoire d'Informatique et Systèmes (LIS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Géoazur (GEOAZUR 7329), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie (MIO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), and Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.)

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astrofísica, ANTARES, Telescopis, background, water, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, neutrino: particle source, Astrophysics, neutrino: UHE, IceCube, observatory, neutrino: detector, Space and Planetary Science, gamma ray, Física::Astronomia i astrofísica [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Cherenkov, Neutrins, Neutrinos, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], HAWC, Telescopes
Abstract

In the quest for high-energy neutrino sources, the Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network has implemented a new search by combining data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory and the Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch (ANTARES) neutrino telescope. Using the same analysis strategy as in a previous detector combination of HAWC and IceCube data, we perform a search for coincidences in HAWC and ANTARES events that are below the threshold for sending public alerts in each individual detector. Data were collected between 2015 July and 2020 February with a live time of 4.39 yr. Over this time period, three coincident events with an estimated false-alarm rate of, The National Science Foundation under grants PHY-1708146, PHY-1806854, The Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos of the Pennsylvania State University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Commission Européenne (FEDER fund and Marie Curie Program), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), LabEx UnivEarthS (ANR-10-LABX-0023 and ANR-18-IDEX-0001), Région Île-de-France (DIM-ACAV), Région Alsace (contrat CPER), Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Département du Var and Ville de La Seyne-sur-Mer, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Nederlandse organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI), Romania; Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación, Investigación y Universidades (MCIU), Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento (refs. PGC2018- 096663-B-C41, -A-C42, B-C43, B-C44, PID2021- 124591NB-C41, C42, C43, (MCIU/FEDER), Generalitat Valenciana, Prometeo (PROMETEO/2020/019), Grisolía (refs. GRISOLIA/2018/119, /2021/192), GenT (refs. /2019/043, /2020/049, /2021/023) programs, Junta de Andalucía (ref. A-FQM-053-UGR18), La Caixa Foundation (ref. LCF/BQ/IN17/11620019), MSC program (ref. 101025085), Spain; Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, The Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, Kuwait, US National Science Foundation (NSF), The US Department of Energy Office of High-Energy Physics, Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT), México, grants 271051, 232656, 260378, 179588, 254964, 258865, 243290, 132197, A1-S-46288, A1- S-22784, Cátedras 873, 1563, 341, 323, Red HAWC, México, DGAPA-UNAM grants IG101320, IN111716-3, IN111419, IA102019, IN110621, IN110521, VIEP-BUAP, PIFI 2012, PROFOCIE 2014, 2015, the University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, The Institute of Geophysics, Planetary Physics, Signatures at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Polish Science Centre grant, DEC-2017/27/B/ ST9/02272, Coordinación de la Investigación Científica de la Universidad Michoacana; Royal Society—Newton Advanced Fellowship 180385, Generalitat Valenciana, grant CIDEGENT/ 2018/034, The Program Management Unit for Human Resources & Institutional Development, Research and Innovation, NXPO (grant No. B16F630069), Coordinación General Académica e Innovación (CGAI-UdeG), PRODEP-SEP UDGCA- 499; Institute of Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), University of Tokyo, NASA under award number 80GSFC21M0002

Published
2023

4. Probing the extragalactic mid-infrared background with HAWC

Author

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, D. Avila Rojas, H. A. Ayala Solares, R. Babu, E. Belmont-Moreno, K. S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistrán, A. Carramiñana, S. Casanova, O. Chaparro-Amaro, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, S. Coutiño de León, E. De la Fuente, R. Diaz Hernandez, M. A. DuVernois, M. Durocher, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, K. Engel, C. Espinoza, K. L. Fan, M. Fernández Alonso, N. Fraija, J. A. García-González, F. Garfias, M. M. González, J. A. Goodman, J. P. Harding, S. Hernandez, D. Huang, F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, P. Hntemeyer, A. Iriarte, A. Jardin-Blicq, V. Joshi, D. Kieda, W. H. Lee, J. T. Linnemann, A. L. Longinotti, G. Luis-Raya, K. Malone, O. Martinez, J. Martínez-Castro, J. A. Matthews, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, E. Moreno, M. Mostafá, A. Nayerhoda, L. Nellen, M. Newbold, M. U. Nisa, R. Noriega-Papaqui, N. Omodei, A. Peisker, Y. Pérez Araujo, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, C. D. Rho, D. Rosa-González, H. Salazar, D. Salazar-Gallegos, F. Salesa Greus, A. Sandoval, J. Serna-Franco, A. J. Smith, Y. Son, R. W. Springer, O. Tibolla, K. Tollefson, I. Torres, R. Torres-Escobedo, R. Turner, F. Ureña-Mena, L. Villaseñor, X. Wang, T. Weisgarber, E. Willox, H. Zhou, and C. de León

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, ddc:520, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

The extragalactic background light (EBL) contains all the radiation emitted by nuclear and accretion processes in stars and compact objects since the epoch of recombination. Measuring the EBL density directly is challenging, especially in the near- to far-infrared waveband, mainly due to the zodiacal light foreground. Instead, gamma-ray astronomy offers the possibility to indirectly set limits on the EBL by studying the effects of gamma-ray absorption in the very high energy (VHE:$>$100 GeV) spectra of distant blazars. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov gamma ray observatory (HAWC) is one of the few instruments sensitive to gamma rays with energies above 10 TeV. This offers the opportunity to probe the EBL in the near/mid IR region: $\lambda$ = 1 $\mu$m - 100 $\mu$m. In this study, we fit physically motivated emission models to Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) GeV data to extrapolate the intrinsic TeV spectra of blazars. We then simulate a large number of absorbed spectra for different randomly generated EBL model shapes and calculate Bayesian credible bands in the EBL intensity space by comparing and testing the agreement between the absorbed spectra and HAWC extragalactic observations of two blazars. The resulting bands are in agreement with current EBL lower and upper limits, showing a downward trend towards higher wavelength values $\lambda>10\, \mu$m also observed in previous measurements., Comment: Submitted to ApJ

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2022
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5. Detailed Analysis of the TeV γ-Ray Sources 3HWC J1928+178, 3HWC J1930+188, and the New Source HAWC J1932+192

Author

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, D. Avila Rojas, H. A. Ayala Solares, R. Babu, E. Belmont-Moreno, C. Brisbois, K. S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistrán, A. Carramiñana, S. Casanova, O. Chaparro-Amaro, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, S. Coutiño de León, E. De la Fuente, C. de León, R. Diaz Hernandez, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, B. L. Dingus, M. A. DuVernois, M. Durocher, K. Engel, C. Espinoza, K. L. Fan, M. Fernández Alonso, N. Fraija, J. A. García-González, F. Garfias, H. Goksu, M. M. González, J. A. Goodman, J. P. Harding, S. Hernandez, J. Hinton, B. Hona, D. Huang, F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, P. Hüntemeyer, A. Iriarte, A. Jardin-Blicq, V. Joshi, S. Kaufmann, D. Kieda, W. H. Lee, H. León Vargas, J. T. Linnemann, A. L. Longinotti, G. Luis-Raya, R. López-Coto, K. Malone, V. Marandon, O. Martinez, J. Martínez-Castro, J. A. Matthews, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, J. A. Morales-Soto, E. Moreno, M. Mostafá, A. Nayerhoda, L. Nellen, M. Newbold, M. U. Nisa, R. Noriega-Papaqui, L. Olivera-Nieto, N. Omodei, A. Peisker, Y. Pérez Araujo, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, C. D. Rho, D. Rosa-González, E. Ruiz-Velasco, H. Salazar, D. Salazar-Gallegos, F. Salesa Greus, A. Sandoval, M. Schneider, J. Serna-Franco, A. J. Smith, Y. Son, R. W. Springer, O. Tibolla, K. Tollefson, I. Torres, R. Torres-Escobedo, R. Turner, F. Ureña-Mena, L. Villaseñor, X. Wang, F. Werner, E. Willox, and H. Zhou

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Space and Planetary Science, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

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 longitude 52° < ℓ < 55°, 3HWC J1930+188 and 3HWC J1928+178. The first one is associated with a known TeV source, the supernova remnant SNR G054.1+00.3. It was discovered by one of the currently operating Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT), the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS), detected by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S), and identified as a composite SNR. However, the source 3HWC J1928+178, discovered by HAWC and coincident with the pulsar PSR J1928+1746, was not detected by any IACT despite their long exposure on the region, until a recent new analysis of H.E.S.S. data was able to confirm it. Moreover, no X-ray counterpart has been detected from this pulsar. We present a multicomponent fit of this region using the latest HAWC data. This reveals an additional new source, HAWC J1932+192, which is potentially associated with the pulsar PSR J1932+1916, whose γ-ray emission could come from the acceleration of particles in its pulsar wind nebula. In the case of 3HWC J1928+178, several possible explanations are explored, in an attempt to unveil the origins of the very-high-energy γ-ray emission.

Published
2023

6. Long-term spectra of the blazars Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 at TeV energies seen by HAWC

Author

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. R. Angeles Camacho, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, K. P. Arunbabu, D. Avila Rojas, H. A. Ayala Solares, V. Baghmanyan, E. Belmont-Moreno, K. S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistrán, A. Carramiñana, S. Casanova, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, S. Coutiño de León, E. De la Fuente, R. Diaz Hernandez, M. A. DuVernois, M. Durocher, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, K. Engel, C. Espinoza, K. L. Fan, M. Fernández Alonso, N. Fraija, D. Garcia, J. A. García-González, F. Garfias, M. M. González, J. A. Goodman, J. P. Harding, B. Hona, D. Huang, F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, P. Hüntemeyer, A. Iriarte, V. Joshi, A. Lara, W. H. Lee, J. Lee, H. León Vargas, J. T. Linneman, A. L. Longinotti, G. Luis-Raya, K. Malone, O. Martinez, J. Martínez-Castro, J. A. Matthews, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, E. Moreno, M. Mostafá, A. Nayerhoda, L. Nellen, M. Newbold, R. Noriega-Papaqui, A. Peisker, Y. Pérez Araujo, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, C. D. Rho, D. Rosa-González, H. Salazar, F. Salesa Greus, A. Sandoval, M. Schneider, J. Serna-Franco, A. J. Smith, R. W. Springer, K. Tollefson, I. Torres, R. Torres-Escobedo, F. Ureña-Mena, L. Villaseñor, X. Wang, T. Weisgarber, E. Willox, H. Zhou, and C. de León

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, ddc:530, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory surveys the very high energy sky in the 300 GeV to $>100$ TeV energy range. HAWC has detected two blazars above $11\sigma$, Markarian 421 (Mrk 421) and Markarian 501 (Mrk 501). The observations are comprised of data taken in the period between June 2015 and July 2018, resulting in a $\sim 1038$ days of exposure. In this work we report the time-averaged spectral analysis for both sources above 0.5 TeV. Taking into account the flux attenuation due to the extragalactic background light (EBL), the intrinsic spectrum of Mrk 421 is described by a power law with an exponential energy cut-off with index $\alpha=2.26\pm(0.12)_{stat}(_{-0.2}^{+0.17})_{sys}$ and energy cut-off $E_c=5.1\pm(1.6)_{stat}(_{-2.5}^{+1.4})_{sys}$ TeV, while the intrinsic spectrum of Mrk 501 is better described by a simple power law with index $\alpha=2.61\pm(0.11)_{stat}(_{-0.07}^{+0.01})_{sys}$. The maximum energies at which the Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 signals are detected are 9 and 12 TeV, respectively. This makes these some of the highest energy detections to date for spectra averaged over years-long timescales. Since the observation of gamma radiation from blazars provides information about the physical processes that take place in their relativistic jets, it is important to study the broad-band spectral energy distribution (SED) of these objects. To this purpose, contemporaneous data in the gamma-ray band to X-ray range, and literature data in the radio to UV range, were used to build time-averaged SEDs that were modeled within a synchrotron self-Compton leptonic scenario., Comment: 16 pages, 5 tables, 9 figures

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2021
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7. Probing the Sea of Cosmic Rays by Measuring Gamma-Ray Emission from Passive Giant Molecular Clouds with HAWC

Author

Segev BenZvi, C. Alvarez, S. Coutiño de León, A. Sandoval, Alejandro Lara, Pooja Surajbali, S. Hernandez, E. De la Fuente, Fernando Ureña-Mena, D. Avila Rojas, R. Diaz Hernandez, Andrea Albert, Michael Schneider, K. Malone, Fernando Garfias, H. Zhou, E. Ruiz-Velasco, C. Brisbois, K. P. Arunbabu, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, A. L. Longinotti, O. Martinez, J. S. H. Lee, D. Garcia, H. León Vargas, J. A. Morales-Soto, A. Galván-Gámez, Nicola Omodei, J. A. Goodman, Meghan Tanner, Arturo Iriarte, Brenda Dingus, Y. Pérez Araujo, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, Michael Newbold, Alison Peisker, A. Nayerhoda, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Luis Villaseñor, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, J. R. Angeles Camacho, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, E. Moreno, Miguel Mostafa, B. Hona, Kwok Lung Fan, Umberto Cotti, K. Tollefson, Kristi Engel, Nissim Illich Fraija, J. P. Harding, T. Weisgarber, Maria Magdalena González, V. Joshi, Sabrina Casanova, M. U. Nisa, J. A. Matthews, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Ibrahim Torres, V. Baghmanyan, Elijah Willox, Jorge Cotzomi, Catalina Espinoza, José Serna-Franco, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Jesús Martínez-Castro, H. A. Ayala Solares, Ruben Alfaro, C. D. Rho, R. Noriega-Papaqui, Dezhi Huang, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, J. T. Linnemann, William H. Lee, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, T. Capistrán, M. Fernández Alonso, R. Torres-Escobedo, A. J. Smith, R. W. Springer, L. Nellen, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, David Kieda, C. De León, F. Salesa Greus, Rhiannon Turner, Michael DuVernois, A. Carraminana, Joe Lundeen, and R. W. Ellsworth

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), High-energy astronomy, Molecular cloud, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

The study of high-energy gamma rays from passive Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in our Galaxy is an indirect way to characterize and probe the paradigm of the "sea" of cosmic rays in distant parts of the Galaxy. By using data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, we measure the gamma-ray flux above 1 TeV of a set of these clouds to test the paradigm. We selected high-galactic latitude clouds that are in HAWC's field-of-view and which are within 1~kpc distance from the Sun. We find no significant excess emission in the cloud regions, nor when we perform a stacked log-likelihood analysis of GMCs. Using a Bayesian approach, we calculate 95\% credible intervals upper limits of the gamma-ray flux and estimate limits on the cosmic-ray energy density of these regions. These are the first limits to constrain gamma-ray emission in the multi-TeV energy range ($>$1 TeV) using passive high-galactic latitude GMCs. Assuming that the main gamma-ray production mechanism is due to proton-proton interaction, the upper limits are consistent with a cosmic-ray flux and energy density similar to that measured at Earth., 6 figures, 6 tables

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2021
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8. HAWC and Fermi-LAT Detection of Extended Emission from the Unidentified Source 2HWC J2006+341

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E. Moreno, Nissim Illich Fraija, Nicola Omodei, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Alison Peisker, Arturo Iriarte, L. Nellen, Henrike Fleischhack, Fernando Ureña-Mena, C. Alvarez, Andrea Albert, F. Salesa Greus, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, A. Zepeda, D. Garcia, R. W. Springer, Mehr Nisa, C. Brisbois, H. Zhou, Miguel Mostafa, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, E. De la Fuente, John Matthews, D. Avila Rojas, K. P. Arunbabu, Michael DuVernois, Ibrahim Torres, V. Joshi, A. Galván-Gámez, C. De León, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, R. Torres-Escobedo, R. Diaz Hernandez, K. Malone, Miguel Araya, A. Carraminana, V. Baghmanyan, Brenda Dingus, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Catalina Espinoza, R. López-Coto, Anna Lia Longinotti, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Joe Lundeen, H. A. Ayala Solares, K. Tollefson, O. Martinez, A. Jardin-Blicq, Ruben Alfaro, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, J. R. Angeles Camacho, Umberto Cotti, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Sabrina Casanova, R. Noriega-Papaqui, J. T. Linnemann, Dezhi Huang, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, B. Hona, J. A. Goodman, Fernando Garfias, Maria Magdalena González, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, H. León Vargas, A. Sandoval, Michael Schneider, Elijah Willox, J. P. Harding, C. D. Rho, T. Weisgarber, and Luis Villaseñor

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Interstellar medium, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

The discovery of the TeV point source 2HWC J2006+341 was reported in the second HAWC gamma-ray catalog. We present a follow-up study of this source here. The TeV emission is best described by an extended source with a soft spectrum. At GeV energies, an extended source is significantly detected in Fermi-LAT data. The matching locations, sizes and spectra suggest that both gamma-ray detections correspond to the same source. Different scenarios for the origin of the emission are considered and we rule out an association to the pulsar PSR J2004+3429 due to extreme energetics required, if located at a distance of 10.8 kpc., Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures. To appear in ApJL

Published
2020
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9. Constraining the local burst rate density of primordial black holes with HAWC

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E. G. Pérez-Pérez, U. Cotti, S. Hernandez, A. J. Smith, T. Capistrán, J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez, K. Malone, W. H. Lee, J. Cotzomi, E. Tabachnick, R. Noriega-Papaqui, E. Belmont-Moreno, A. Iriarte, Joe Lundeen, B. Hona, S. S. Marinelli, Lukas Nellen, Hao Zhou, Alejandro Lara, G. Sinnis, Michael DuVernois, F. Garfias, I. Torres, A. Carramiñana, K. Tollefson, J. Martínez-Castro, Mehr Nisa, C. D. Rho, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, Nissim Fraija, O. Tibolla, C. De León, I. Martinez-Castellanos, E. De la Fuente, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, G. Luis-Raya, R. W. Ellsworth, H. Fleischhack, R. López-Coto, K. Engel, F. Salesa Greus, C. Brisbois, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, R. W. Springer, A. Galván-Gámez, Sabrina Casanova, H. Martínez-Huerta, V. Joshi, Brenda Dingus, Catalina Espinoza, John N. Wood, H. Salazar, Segev BenZvi, C. Alvarez, Vardan Baghmanyan, A. L. Longinotti, Alison Peisker, John Matthews, K. P. Arunbabu, Oscar Martinez, D. Avila Rojas, H. A. Ayala Solares, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Amid Nayerhoda, Andrea Albert, M. Newbold, M. J. F. Rosenberg, Meghan Tanner, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, P. Hüntemeyer, R. Torres-Escobedo, J. P. Harding, C. Rivière, J. T. Linnemann, Maria Magdalena González, A. Sandoval, J. A. Goodman, Michael Schneider, H. León Vargas, Dezhi Huang, J. A. Morales-Soto, M. Mostafá, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, T. Weisgarber, Arnulfo Zepeda, Ruben Alfaro, and E. Moreno

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Solar mass, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, media_common.quotation_subject, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Primordial black hole, Astrophysics, Universe, High Energy Physics - Experiment, 85-05, Black hole, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), RAIOS GAMA, Observatory, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cherenkov radiation, Hawking radiation, media_common
Abstract

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) may have been created by density fluctuations in the early Universe and could be as massive as $> 10^9$ solar masses or as small as the Planck mass. It has been postulated that a black hole has a temperature inversely-proportional to its mass and will thermally emit all species of fundamental particles via Hawking Radiation. PBHs with initial masses of $\sim 5 \times 10^{14}$ g (approximately one gigaton) should be expiring today with bursts of high-energy gamma radiation in the GeV--TeV energy range. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is sensitive to gamma rays with energies of $\sim$300 GeV to past 100 TeV, which corresponds to the high end of the PBH burst spectrum. With its large instantaneous field-of-view of $\sim 2$ sr and a duty cycle over 95%, the HAWC Observatory is well suited to perform an all-sky search for PBH bursts. We conducted a search using 959 days of HAWC data and exclude the local PBH burst rate density above $3400~\mathrm{pc^{-3}~yr^{-1}}$ at 99% confidence, the strongest limit on the local PBH burst rate density from any existing electromagnetic measurement., Corresponding authors: K.L. Engel & A. Peisker. 13 pages, 5 figures

Published
2020

10. Data acquisition architecture and online processing system for the HAWC gamma-ray observatory

Author

Jorge Cotzomi, P. Karn, Fernando Garfias, M. Longo Proper, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Petra Hüntemeyer, Thomas Weisgarber, J. P. Harding, T. Yapici, F. Salesa Greus, Alberto Carramiñana, A. Imran, Ruben Alfaro, H. León Vargas, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, T. N. Ukwatta, Varlen Grabski, R. Arceo, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, M. Bonilla Rosales, Michael Newbold, A. J. Smith, O. Martinez, Michael DuVernois, Nissim Illich Fraija, James E. Braun, E. De la Fuente, R. Noriega-Papaqui, R. A. Caballero-Lopez, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, Gerd Joachim Kunde, D. Berley, N. Bautista-Elivar, James M. Ryan, A. Sandoval, G. Sinnis, J. Becerra González, L. Nellen, William H. Lee, J. Pretz, S. S. Marinelli, E. Mendoza Torres, James W. Wood, Kelly Malone, C. M. Hui, Hao Zhou, C. De León, Umberto Cotti, H. Martínez-Huerta, Julie McEnery, Michael Schneider, I. G. Wisher, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, R. W. Springer, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, I. Taboada, K. Sparks Woodle, C. Alvarez, Rodrigo Pelayo, E. C. Linares, J. A.J. Matthews, A. Marinelli, A. Zepeda, David Kieda, S. Westerhoff, F. E. Sanchez, M. Castillo, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, P. W. Younk, D. W. Fiorino, Dirk Lennarz, E. Moreno, J. D. Álvarez, Maria Magdalena González, Arturo Iriarte, T. Oceguera-Becerra, R. J. Lauer, A. Galindo, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Jesús Martínez-Castro, H. A. Ayala Solares, K. Tollefson, Alejandro Lara, Z. Hampel-Arias, R. Diaz Hernandez, Ibrahim Torres, D. Zaborov, J. T. Linnemann, G. B. Yodh, A. S. Barber, R. W. Ellsworth, S. Silich, B. M. Baughman, C. Rivière, L. Villaseñor, J. A. Goodman, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Miguel Mostafa, Segev BenZvi, J. Diaz-Cruz, M. Gussert, B. Patricelli, Brenda Dingus, and R. Luna-Garcia

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, business.industry, Gigabit Ethernet, Electrical engineering, FOS: Physical sciences, Dead time, 01 natural sciences, Data processing system, Time-to-digital converter, Air shower, Data acquisition, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Custom software, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, business, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, Computer hardware
Abstract

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, Mexico. HAWC consists of 300 Water Cherenkov Detectors, each instrumented with 4 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). HAWC re-uses the Front-End Boards from the Milagro experiment to receive the PMT signals. These boards are used in combination with Time to Digital Converters (TDCs) to record the time and the amount of light in each PMT hit (light flash). A set of VME TDC modules (128 channels each) is operated in a continuous (dead time free) mode. The TDCs are read out via the VME bus by Single-Board Computers (SBCs), which in turn are connected to a gigabit Ethernet network. The complete system produces ~ 500 MB/s of raw data. A high-throughput data processing system has been designed and built to enable real-time data analysis. The system relies on off-the-shelf hardware components, an open-source software technology for data transfers (ZeroMQ) and a custom software framework for data analysis (AERIE). Multiple trigger and reconstruction algorithms can be combined and run on blocks of data in a parallel fashion, producing a set of output data streams which can be analyzed in real time with minimal latency (< 5 s). This paper provides an overview of the hardware set-up and an in-depth description of the software design, covering both the TDC data acquisition system and the real-time data processing system. The performance of these systems is also discussed., 14 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A

Published
2018

11. Author Correction: HAWC observations of the acceleration of very-high-energy cosmic rays in the Cygnus Cocoon

Author

A. Jardin-Blicq, J. A. Morales-Soto, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, A. Sandoval, Mora Durocher, D. Garcia, C. Alvarez, E. De la Fuente, F. Werner, D. Avila Rojas, F. Serna, J. R. Angeles Camacho, Kwok Lung Fan, Petra Hüntemeyer, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, Michael Schneider, R. Diaz Hernandez, S. Hernandez, Nicola Omodei, Arturo Iriarte, K. Tollefson, B. Hona, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, C. De León, V. Baghmanyan, E. Moreno, C. Brisbois, Umberto Cotti, Maria Magdalena González, Kristi Engel, Nissim Illich Fraija, Sabrina Casanova, Fernando Garfias, A. Zepeda, Harm Schoorlemmer, Pooja Surajbali, J. A. Matthews, E. Ruiz-Velasco, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, H. Zhou, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Alison Peisker, Z. Ren, Ibrahim Torres, R. Noriega-Papaqui, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, K. P. Arunbabu, Ruben Alfaro, A. L. Longinotti, H. León Vargas, J. P. Harding, Henrike Fleischhack, William H. Lee, L. Olivera-Nieto, O. Martinez, T. Weisgarber, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Miguel Mostafa, Michael DuVernois, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Roger Blandford, S. Coutiño de León, R. W. Springer, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Michael Newbold, Alejandro Lara, K. Malone, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, V. Joshi, J. D. Álvarez, E. Belmont-Moreno, A. J. Smith, Ke Fang, C. D. Rho, T. Capistrán, David Kieda, L. Nellen, F. Salesa Greus, A. Carraminana, Joe Lundeen, R. W. Ellsworth, Jim Hinton, Elijah Willox, J. A. Goodman, Dezhi Huang, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, M. U. Nisa, A. Galván-Gámez, Brenda Dingus, J. T. Linnemann, Y. Pérez Araujo, A. Nayerhoda, Segev BenZvi, Gwenael Giacinti, I. Martinez-Castellanos, Andrea Albert, R. Torres-Escobedo, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Catalina Espinoza, Jesús Martínez-Castro, and H. A. Ayala Solares

Subjects
Physics, Acceleration, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray
Published
2021

12. Multiple Galactic Sources with Emission Above 56 TeV Detected by HAWC

Author

J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, S. Hernandez, A. Carraminana, Maria Magdalena González, Z. Ren, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Dezhi Huang, Catalina Espinoza, J. Pretz, Joe Lundeen, Miguel Mostafa, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, John Matthews, Jesús Martínez-Castro, R. W. Ellsworth, H. A. Ayala Solares, J. A. Morales-Soto, Tomás Capistrán, S. S. Marinelli, C. Brisbois, Haocheng Zhang, V. Joshi, Luis Villaseñor, Ruben Alfaro, C. Rivière, R. W. Springer, Ibrahim Torres, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Fernando Garfias, Michael Newbold, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, A. Nayerhoda, Thomas Weisgarber, A. Galván-Gámez, S. Coutiño de León, E. Ruiz-Velasco, S. Kaufmann, Hao Zhou, Segev BenZvi, J. A. Goodman, Alejandro Lara, Chang Dong Rho, Alison Peisker, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, H. León Vargas, E. Moreno, Kristi Engel, Umberto Cotti, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, K. P. Arunbabu, David Kieda, Jim Hinton, J C Díaz-Vélez, Brenda Dingus, R. López-Coto, Andrea Albert, Henrike Fleischhack, Sabrina Casanova, A. Sandoval, Jorge Cotzomi, R. Torres-Escobedo, Arturo Iriarte, Anna Lia Longinotti, Kelly Malone, Meghan Tanner, Michael Schneider, Harm Schoorlemmer, E. Tabachnick, Nissim Illich Fraija, R. Noriega-Papaqui, M. U. Nisa, O. Tibolla, J. T. Linnemann, William H. Lee, D. Garcia, J. P. Harding, Binita Hona, O. Martinez, I. Martinez-Castellanos, K. Tollefson, Pooja Surajbali, Gus Sinnis, J. Wood, J. R. Angeles Camacho, T. Yapici, H. Martínez-Huerta, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Petra Hüntemeyer, E. De la Fuente, D. Avila Rojas, A. J. Smith, L. Nellen, V. Baghmanyan, C. De León, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Michael DuVernois, F. Salesa Greus, M. J. F. Rosenberg, Simone Dichiara, and HAWC Collaboration

Subjects
Physics, HAWC - Abteilung Hinton, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, General Physics and Astronomy, Flux, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, ASTROFÍSICA, Effects of high altitude on humans, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract

We present the first catalog of gamma-ray sources emitting above 56 and 100 TeV with data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory, a wide field-of-view observatory capable of detecting gamma rays up to a few hundred TeV. Nine sources are observed above 56 TeV, all of which are likely Galactic in origin. Three sources continue emitting past 100 TeV, making this the highest-energy gamma-ray source catalog to date. We report the integral flux of each of these objects. We also report spectra for three highest-energy sources and discuss the possibility that they are PeVatrons., Accepted by Physical Review Letters

Published
2019

13. Search for Gamma-ray Spectral Lines from Dark Matter Annihilation in Dwarf Galaxies with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory

Author

J. A. Morales-Soto, Hao Zhou, K. Malone, C. Alvarez, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, E. Tabachnick, A. Galván-Gámez, E. De la Fuente, D. Avila Rojas, Tomás Capistrán, C. De León, J. P. Harding, Brenda Dingus, Arturo Iriarte, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, O. Martinez, P. Huentemeyer, Andrea Albert, James W. Wood, K. Tollefson, Binita Hona, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Dezhi Huang, Alison Peisker, A. Sandoval, L. Nellen, Michael Schneider, Fernando Garfias, J. T. Linnemann, S. Hernandez, Ibrahim Torres, Nissim Illich Fraija, Thomas Weisgarber, A. Carraminana, Michael DuVernois, R. Noriega-Papaqui, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Joe Lundeen, H. León Vargas, S. S. Marinelli, C. Brisbois, Catalina Espinoza, I. Martinez-Castellanos, R. W. Springer, Umberto Cotti, Anna Lia Longinotti, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, S. Coutiño de León, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Sabrina Casanova, Kristi Engel, H. A. Ayala Solares, Alejandro Lara, J. A. Goodman, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Jorge Cotzomi, F. Salesa Greus, O. Tibolla, Ruben Alfaro, R. Torres-Escobedo, Simone Dichiara, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Chang Dong Rho, John Matthews, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Michael Newbold, Miguel Mostafa, V. Joshi, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, M. J. F. Rosenberg, A. Zepeda, K. P. Arunbabu, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, E. Moreno, Maria Magdalena González, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Segev BenZvi, A. Nayerhoda, and M. U. Nisa

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Annihilation, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Effects of high altitude on humans, Spectral line, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Observatory, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cherenkov radiation, Dwarf galaxy
Abstract

Local dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are nearby dark-matter dominated systems, making them excellent targets for searching for gamma rays from particle dark matter interactions. If dark matter annihilates or decays directly into two gamma rays (or a gamma ray and a neutral particle), a monochromatic spectral line is created. At TeV energies, no other processes are expected to produce spectral lines, making this a very clean indirect dark matter search channel. With the development of event-by-event energy reconstruction, we can now search for spectral lines with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory. HAWC is a wide field of view survey instrument located in central Mexico that observes gamma rays from 100 TeV. In this work we present results from a recent search for spectral lines from local, dark matter dominated dwarf galaxies using 1038 days of HAWC data. We also present updated limits on several continuum channels that were reported in a previous publication. Our gamma-ray spectral line limits are the most constraining obtained so far from 20 TeV to 100 TeV., submitted to PRD

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2019
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14. First HAWC Observations of the Sun Constrain Steady TeV Gamma-Ray Emission

Author

E. Moreno, P. Surajbali, Hao Zhou, Annika H. G. Peter, J. Wood, J. P. Harding, O. Enríquez-Rivera, Fernando Garfias, Z. Ren, A. Iriarte, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, F. Salesa Greus, J. Martínez-Castro, E. De la Fuente, Joe Lundeen, D. Avila Rojas, Harm Schoorlemmer, A. Albert, S. Westerhoff, M. Seglar Arroyo, Z. Hampel-Arias, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, M. J. F. Rosenberg, T. Weisgarber, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, S. Dichiara, R. W. Springer, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Rebecca K. Leane, I. Torres, Petra Hüntemeyer, R. López-Coto, O. Martinez, M. Mostafá, T. Yapici, H. Salazar, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, B. Hona, S. Kaufmann, L. Nellen, I. Martinez-Castellanos, Cristobal M. Espinoza, Kenny C. Y. Ng, C. D. Rho, N. Fraija, M. M. González, T. Capistrán, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, E. Belmont-Moreno, A. Nayerhoda, John F. Beacom, Brenda Dingus, Michael Schneider, I. G. Wisher, S. Coutiño de León, Henrike Fleischhack, C. Alvarez, Segev BenZvi, J. Cotzomi, A. Carramiñana, Sabrina Casanova, O. Tibolla, S. S. Marinelli, G. Sinnis, A. Sandoval, T. Linden, Chad Brisbois, Michael DuVernois, V. Joshi, R. Arceo, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, M. Newbold, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, H. A. Ayala Solares, A. Jardin-Blicq, Kristi Engel, M. Castillo, H. León Vargas, Mehr Nisa, I. Taboada, Bei Zhou, K. Tollefson, C. De León, Jdr Alvarez, C. Rivière, A. Zepeda, Jennifer Pretz, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, R. Alfaro, A. J. Smith, R. Noriega-Papaqui, G. Luis-Raya, S. Hernandez, L. Villaseñor, J. A. Goodman, K. Malone, and HAWC Collaboration

Subjects
Solar minimum, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Hadron, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Atmosphere, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), HAWC - Abteilung Hinton, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma ray, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 13. Climate action, Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

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. The likely cause is hadronic cosmic rays undergoing collisions in the Sun's atmosphere after being redirected from ingoing to outgoing in magnetic fields, though the exact mechanism is not understood. An important new test of the gamma-ray production mechanism will follow from observations at higher energies. Only the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory has the required sensitivity to effectively probe the Sun in the TeV range. Using three years of HAWC data from November 2014 to December 2017, just prior to the solar minimum, we search for 1--100 TeV gamma rays from the solar disk. No evidence of a signal is observed, and we set strong upper limits on the flux at a few $10^{-12}$ TeV$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ at 1 TeV. Our limit, which is the most constraining result on TeV gamma rays from the Sun, is $\sim10\%$ of the theoretical maximum flux (based on a model where all incoming cosmic rays produce outgoing photons), which in turn is comparable to the Fermi-LAT data near 100 GeV. The prospects for a first TeV detection of the Sun by HAWC are especially high during solar minimum, which began in early 2018., Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures. See also companion paper 1808.05624. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D

Published
2018

15. Interplanetary Magnetic Flux Rope Observed at Ground Level by HAWC

Author

J. R. Angeles Camacho, A. Iriarte, Nissim Fraija, James Ryan, J. Martínez-Castro, Luis Villaseñor, J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez, D. Garcia, Tatiana Niembro, E. Moreno, F. Salesa Greus, John Matthews, Luis Preisser, Alejandro Lara, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, J. P. Harding, U. Cotti, K. Malone, T. Capistrán, G. Luis-Raya, A. Carramiñana, D. Avila Rojas, E. De la Fuente, M. Newbold, Amid Nayerhoda, Maria Magdalena González, Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla, B. Hona, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, A. Galván-Gámez, Sabrina Casanova, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, V. Joshi, K. P. Arunbabu, E. Belmont-Moreno, R. Noriega-Papaqui, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Ruben Alfaro, I. Torres, Sachiko Akiyama, C. D. Rho, Gerd J. Kunde, D. Huang, J. Cotzomi, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Catalina Espinoza, H. A. Ayala Solares, C. De León, F. Garfias, R. Diaz Hernandez, Arnulfo Zepeda, A. Sandoval, F. Ureña-Mena, H. León Vargas, Lukas Nellen, R. W. Springer, H. Salazar, C. Alvarez, David Kieda, P. Hüntemeyer, J. A. Goodman, and P. Colin-Farias

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Geomagnetic storm, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Turbulence, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Magnetic flux, Physics::Geophysics, Magnetic field, Earth's magnetic field, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Physics::Space Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Coronal mass ejection, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Interplanetary spaceflight, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

We report the ground-level detection of a Galactic Cosmic-Ray (GCR) flux enhancement lasting $\sim$ 17 hr and associated with the passage of a magnetic flux rope (MFR) over the Earth. The MFR was associated with a slow Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) caused by the eruption of a filament on 2016 October 9. Due to the quiet conditions during the eruption and the lack of interactions during the interplanetary CME transport to the Earth, the associated MFR preserved its configuration and reached the Earth with a strong magnetic field, low density, and a very low turbulence level compared to the local background, thus generating the ideal conditions to redirect and guide GCRs (in the $\sim$ 8 to 60 GV rigidity range) along the magnetic field of the MFR. An important negative $B_Z$ component inside the MFR caused large disturbances in the geomagnetic field and a relatively strong geomagnetic storm. However, these disturbances are not the main factors behind the GCR enhancement. Instead, we found that the major factor was the alignment between the MFR axis and the asymptotic direction of the observer.

Published
2020

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

Author

A U, Abeysekara, A, Albert, R, Alfaro, C, Alvarez, J D, Álvarez, R, Arceo, J C, Arteaga-Velázquez, D, Avila Rojas, H A, Ayala Solares, E, Belmont-Moreno, S Y, BenZvi, C, Brisbois, K S, Caballero-Mora, T, Capistrán, A, Carramiñana, S, Casanova, M, Castillo, U, Cotti, J, Cotzomi, S, Coutiño de León, C, De León, E, De la Fuente, J C, Díaz-Vélez, S, Dichiara, B L, Dingus, M A, DuVernois, R W, Ellsworth, K, Engel, C, Espinoza, K, Fang, H, Fleischhack, N, Fraija, A, Galván-Gámez, J A, García-González, F, Garfias, A, González-Muñoz, M M, González, J A, Goodman, Z, Hampel-Arias, J P, Harding, S, Hernandez, J, Hinton, B, Hona, F, Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, C M, Hui, P, Hüntemeyer, A, Iriarte, A, Jardin-Blicq, V, Joshi, S, Kaufmann, P, Kar, G J, Kunde, R J, Lauer, W H, Lee, H, León Vargas, H, Li, J T, Linnemann, A L, Longinotti, G, Luis-Raya, R, López-Coto, K, Malone, S S, Marinelli, O, Martinez, I, Martinez-Castellanos, J, Martínez-Castro, J A, Matthews, P, Miranda-Romagnoli, E, Moreno, M, Mostafá, A, Nayerhoda, L, Nellen, M, Newbold, M U, Nisa, R, Noriega-Papaqui, J, Pretz, E G, Pérez-Pérez, Z, Ren, C D, Rho, C, Rivière, D, Rosa-González, M, Rosenberg, E, Ruiz-Velasco, F, Salesa Greus, A, Sandoval, M, Schneider, H, Schoorlemmer, M, Seglar Arroyo, G, Sinnis, A J, Smith, R W, Springer, P, Surajbali, I, Taboada, O, Tibolla, K, Tollefson, I, Torres, G, Vianello, L, Villaseñor, T, Weisgarber, F, Werner, S, Westerhoff, J, Wood, T, Yapici, G, Yodh, A, Zepeda, H, Zhang, and H, Zhou

Abstract

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)

Published
2018

17. Constraining the p¯/p ratio in TeV cosmic rays with observations of the Moon shadow by HAWC

Author

Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, John N. Wood, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, Kelly Malone, R. W. Springer, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, M. J. Martínez González, Arturo Iriarte, A. J. S. Smith, S. Hernandez, Ruben Alfaro, E. Moreno, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, O. Martinez, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, C. M. Hui, Simone Dichiara, A. González Muñoz, F. Salesa Greus, C. De León, Tomás Capistrán, L. Villaseñor, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Thomas Weisgarber, Nissim Illich Fraija, J. A. Matthews, G. Sinnis, M. Seglar Arroyo, O. Enríquez-Rivera, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, James E. Braun, H. León Vargas, Ibrahim Torres, Petra Hüntemeyer, R. López-Coto, Michael Schneider, S. Westerhoff, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Chang Dong Rho, Henrike Fleischhack, C. Alvarez, Omar Tibolla, Binita Hona, Jorge Cotzomi, Jdr Alvarez, S. Kaufmann, E. De la Fuente, A. Albert, D. Avila Rojas, R. Arceo, G. B. Yodh, T. Yapici, Z. Hampel-Arias, L. Nellen, Chad Brisbois, S. Coutiño de León, M. J. F. Rosenberg, Michael DuVernois, M. Castillo, R. Diaz Hernandez, J. P. Harding, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Alejandro Lara, J. Pretz, Anna Lia Longinotti, Kristi Engel, H. Martínez-Huerta, Hongyan Zhou, Umberto Cotti, Z. Ren, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, I. Taboada, Sabrina Casanova, V. Joshi, A. Zepeda, Harm Schoorlemmer, Miguel Mostafa, Michael Newbold, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Jesús Martínez-Castro, H. A. Ayala Solares, Colas Rivière, R. Pelayo, A. Carraminana, R. Noriega-Papaqui, William H. Lee, S. Y. BenZvi, R. W. Ellsworth, M. U. Nisa, J. T. Linnemann, R. Luna-Garcia, I. Martinez-Castellanos, A. Galván-Gámez, Brenda Dingus, and S. S. Marinelli

Subjects
Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Magnetic field, Earth's magnetic field, Deflection (physics), Observatory, Antiproton, Physics::Space Physics, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract

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 deficit in the flux, or shadow, created by the Moon as it absorbs cosmic rays that are headed towards the Earth. The shadow is displaced from the actual position of the Moon due to geomagnetic deflection, which is a function of the energy and charge of the cosmic rays. The displacement provides a natural tool for momentum/charge discrimination that can be used to study the composition of cosmic rays. Using 33 months of data comprising more than 80 billion cosmic rays measured by the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, we have analyzed the Moon shadow to search for TeV antiprotons in cosmic rays. We present our first upper limits on the $\bar{p}/p$ fraction, which in the absence of any direct measurements, provide the tightest available constraints of $\sim1\%$ on the antiproton fraction for energies between 1 and 10 TeV.

Published
2018

18. A Coincidence Search for Cosmic Neutrino and Gamma-Ray Emitting Sources Using IceCube and Fermi LAT Public Data

Author

Kohta Murase, J. J. DeLaunay, M. Mostafá, Azadeh Keivani, C. F. Turley, D. F. Cowen, Derek B. Fox, and H. A. Ayala Solares

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), COSMIC cancer database, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Coincidence, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Computer Science::Hardware Architecture, Space and Planetary Science, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

We present results of an archival coincidence analysis between Fermi LAT gamma-ray data and public neutrino data from the IceCube neutrino observatory's 40-string (IC40) and 59-string (IC59) observing runs. Our analysis has the potential to detect either a statistical excess of neutrino + gamma-ray ($\nu$+$\gamma$) emitting transients or, alternatively, individual high gamma-multiplicity events, as might be produced by a neutrino observed by IceCube coinciding with a LAT-detected gamma-ray burst. Dividing the neutrino data into three datasets by hemisphere (IC40, IC59-North, and IC59-South), we construct uncorrelated null distributions by Monte Carlo scrambling of the neutrino datasets. We carry out signal-injection studies against these null distributions, demonstrating sensitivity to individual $\nu$+$\gamma$ events of sufficient gamma-ray multiplicity, and to $\nu$+$\gamma$ transient populations responsible for $>$14% (IC40), $>$9% (IC59-North), or $>$8% (IC59-South) of the gamma-coincident neutrinos observed in these datasets, respectively. Analyzing the unscrambled neutrino data, we identify no individual high-significance neutrino + high gamma-multiplicity events, and no significant deviations from the test statistic null distributions. However, we observe a similar and unexpected pattern in the IC59-North and IC59-South residual distributions that we conclude reflects a possible correlation ($p=7.0\%$) between IC59 neutrino positions and persistently bright portions of the Fermi gamma-ray sky. This possible correlation should be readily testable using eight years of further data already collected by IceCube. We are currently working with Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) partner facilities to generate low-latency $\nu$+$\gamma$ alerts from Fermi LAT gamma-ray, IceCube and ANTARES neutrino data and distribute these in real time to AMON follow-up partners., Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures, 1 table

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2018
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19. Milagro limits and HAWC sensitivity for the rate-density of evaporating Primordial Black Holes

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Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, H. Martinez, J. Braun, Miguel Mostafa, B. Patricelli, Arnulfo Zepeda, Ibrahim Torres, J. McEnery, Varlen Grabski, H. León Vargas, R. Arceo, A. Marinelli, N. Bautista-Elivar, W.H. Lee, E. Moreno, V. Vasileiou, D.A. Williams, J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez, R. Noriega-Papaqui, C. M. Hui, A. A. Abdo, K. Sparks Woodle, F. Salesa, J. P. Harding, Michael DuVernois, Hao Zhou, P. Karn, R. A. Caballero-Lopez, Peter Nemethy, A. Sandoval, D. Berley, James M. Ryan, E. De la Fuente, Michael Schneider, T. Weisgarber, Fernando Garfias, Dirk Lennarz, Tyce DeYoung, E. Mendoza Torres, P.A. Toale, O. Martinez, S. Westerhoff, Petra Hüntemeyer, R. Diaz Hernandez, J. Martínez-Castro, Joshua A. Wood, Rodrigo Pelayo, B. T. Allen, E. Belmont, E. Ruiz-Velasco, A. Galindo, Z. Hampel-Arias, T. N. Ukwatta, A. J. Smith, Alberto Carramiñana, M. Bonilla Rosales, Alejandro Lara, Michael Newbold, J.H. MacGibbon, L. Nellen, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, R. Luna-GarcIa, C. M. Hoffman, D. W. Fiorino, C. Rivière, T. Aune, A. Imran, P.W. Younk, Segev BenZvi, J.A.J. Matthews, L. Villaseñor, J. A. Goodman, Ruben Alfaro, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, M. Gussert, C. De León, G. Sinnis, J. Becerra González, Daniel R. Stump, E.C. Linares, S.S. Marinelli, Jennifer Pretz, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, T. Morgan, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, A. Iriarte, P. M. Saz Parkinson, Jorge Cotzomi, M. Longo, Umberto Cotti, G.J. Kunde, T. Oceguera-Becerra, K. Tollefson, Maria Magdalena González, R. J. Lauer, E. Hays, D. Zaborov, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, H. A. Ayala Solares, J. D. Álvarez, G. B. Yodh, J. T. Linnemann, L. Diaz-Cruz, Allen Mincer, B. M. Baughman, A. S. Barber, G. E. Christopher, R. W. Ellsworth, S. Silich, B.E. Kolterman, M. Castillo, Nissim Illich Fraija, Brenda Dingus, I. Taboada, I.G. Wisher, R. W. Springer, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, C. Alvarez, and David Kieda

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Primordial black hole, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Gamma-ray astronomy, Astrophysics, Black hole, Observatory, Milagro, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are gravitationally collapsed objects that may have been created by density fluctuations in the early universe and could have arbitrarily small masses down to the Planck scale. Hawking showed that due to quantum effects, a black hole has a temperature inversely proportional to its mass and will emit all species of fundamental particles thermally. PBHs with initial masses of ~5.0 x 10^14 g should be expiring in the present epoch with bursts of high-energy particles, including gamma radiation in the GeV - TeV energy range. The Milagro high energy observatory, which operated from 2000 to 2008, is sensitive to the high end of the PBH evaporation gamma-ray spectrum. Due to its large field-of-view, more than 90% duty cycle and sensitivity up to 100 TeV gamma rays, the Milagro observatory is well suited to perform a search for PBH bursts. Based on a search on the Milagro data, we report new PBH burst rate density upper limits over a range of PBH observation times. In addition, we report the sensitivity of the Milagro successor, the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, to PBH evaporation events., Comment: Accepted to Astroparticle Physics Journal (25 Pages, 3 figures and 7 tables). Corresponding author: T. N. Ukwatta

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2015
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20. Search for very-high-energy emission from Gamma-ray Bursts using the first 18 months of data from the HAWC Gamma-ray Observatory

Author

Ignacio Taboada, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, U. Cotti, I. Torres, Kristi Engel, C. De León, A. J. Smith, T. Capistrán, S. S. Marinelli, Michael DuVernois, G. Sinnis, Pooja Surajbali, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, K. Malone, Harm Schoorlemmer, C. Rivière, J. D. Álvarez, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, M. Castillo, A. Hernandez-Almada, Fernando Garfias, P. W. Younk, Thomas Weisgarber, A. Zepeda, S. Coutiño Deleón, D. W. Fiorino, Dirk Lennarz, R. Noriega-Papaqui, J. A. Goodman, J. P. Harding, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, N. Bautista-Elivar, A. Carraminana, A. S. Barber, H. León Vargas, J. Martínez-Castro, F. Salesa Greus, James W. Wood, P. Hüntemeyer, A. Becerril, C. M. Hui, Z. Hampel-Arias, A. Sandoval, Lukas Nellen, T. N. Ukwatta, S. Hernandez, Hao Zhou, Rodrigo Pelayo, R. Arceo, S. Westerhoff, Binita Hona, A. González Muñoz, Chad Brisbois, N. Fraija, A. Iriarte, J. Pretz, Maria Magdalena González, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, R. J. Lauer, Abel Bernal, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, O. Martinez, R. W. Ellsworth, T. Yapici, Michael Schneider, Giacomo Vianello, M. J. F. Rosenberg, Sarah Kaufmann, M. Mostafá, Z. Ren, Tyce DeYoung, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, G. Luis Raya, Brenda Dingus, Kirsten Tollefson, H. Martínez-Huerta, J. Braun, E. Moreno, R. Luna-Garcia, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, W. H. Lee, I. Martinez-Castellanos, H. A. Ayala Solares, O. Tibolla, J. Cotzomi, R. W. Springer, J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, C. Alvarez, David Kieda, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Chang Dong Rho, J. A. Matthews, M. Newbold, R. Diaz Hernandez, Segev BenZvi, R. Alfaro, Ruben Lopez-Coto, J. T. Linnemann, Anna Lia Longinotti, Sabrina Casanova, V. Joshi, E. De la Fuente, D. Avila Rojas, and M. Gerhardt

Subjects
HAWC - Abteilung Hinton, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Attenuation, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Synchrotron, Redshift, law.invention, Space and Planetary Science, law, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Satellite, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray burst, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract

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 full operations. If for a burst like GRB 130427A at a redshift of 0.34 and a high-energy component following a power law with index -1.66, the high-energy component is extended to higher energies with no cut-off other than from extragalactic background light attenuation, HAWC would observe gamma rays with a peak energy of $\sim$300 GeV. This paper reports the results of HAWC observations of 64 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by $\mathit{Swift}$ and $\mathit{Fermi}$, including three GRBs that were also detected by the Large Area Telescope ($\mathit{Fermi}$-LAT). An ON/OFF analysis method is employed, searching on the time scale given by the observed light curve at keV-MeV energies and also on extended time scales. For all GRBs and time scales, no statistically significant excess of counts is found and upper limits on the number of gamma rays and the gamma-ray flux are calculated. GRB 170206A, the third brightest short GRB detected by the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor on board the $\mathit{Fermi}$ satellite ($\mathit{Fermi}$-GBM) and also detected by the LAT, occurred very close to zenith. The LAT measurements can neither exclude the presence of a synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) component nor constrain its spectrum. Instead, the HAWC upper limits constrain the expected cut-off in an additional high-energy component to be less than $100~\rm{GeV}$ for reasonable assumptions about the energetics and redshift of the burst., Comment: 19 pages, 6 figures, published in ApJ

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2017
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21. Search for a very high-energy gamma-ray signal in the northern Fermi bubble region with HAWC

Author

H. A. Ayala Solares

Subjects
Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Galactic Center, Gamma ray, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Power law, Galaxy, law.invention, Telescope, Observatory, law, Cherenkov radiation, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

In 2010, two GeV gamma-ray lobes, known as the Fermi Bubbles, were discovered in the data from The Fermi Large Area Telescope. They extend up to 55o above and below the Galactic Center, forming two regions of spectrally hard gamma-ray emission. One of the ways to understand their origin is through studying the spectrum. The spectrum can be described by hadronic and leptonic models. However, how much each process contributes is uncertain. Recent publications show that the spectrum of the Fermi Bubbles is well described by a power law with an exponential cutoff between 100MeV to 500GeV. Observing the Fermi Bubbles at higher gamma-ray energies will help constrain their spectrum. A steeper spectral cutoff will favor a dominant contribution from inverse Compton scattering.The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory, located 4100m above sea level in Mexico, is sensitive to high-energy gamma rays between 100GeV to 100TeV. With a large field of view and good sensitivity to spatially extended sources, HAW...

Published
2017

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

Author

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, J. D. Álvarez, R. Arceo, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, D. Avila Rojas, H. A. Ayala Solares, N. Bautista-Elivar, A. Becerril, E. Belmont-Moreno, S. Y. BenZvi, A. Bernal, J. Braun, C. Brisbois, K. S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistrán, A. Carramiñana, S. Casanova, M. Castillo, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, S. Coutiño de León, C. De León, E. De la Fuente, R. Diaz Hernandez, B. L. Dingus, M. A. DuVernois, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, R. W. Ellsworth, K. Engel, D. W. Fiorino, N. Fraija, J. A. García-González, F. Garfias, M. M. González, J. A. Goodman, Z. Hampel-Arias, J. P. Harding, S. Hernandez, A. Hernandez-Almada, B. Hona, P. Hüntemeyer, A. Iriarte, A. Jardin-Blicq, V. Joshi, S. Kaufmann, D. Kieda, R. J. Lauer, D. Lennarz, H. León Vargas, J. T. Linnemann, A. L. Longinotti, M. Longo Proper, G. Luis Raya, R. Luna-García, R. López-Coto, K. Malone, S. S. Marinelli, I. Martinez-Castellanos, J. Martínez-Castro, H. Martínez-Huerta, J. A. Matthews, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, E. Moreno, M. Mostafá, L. Nellen, M. Newbold, M. U. Nisa, R. Noriega-Papaqui, R. Pelayo, J. Pretz, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, Z. Ren, C. D. Rho, C. Rivière, D. Rosa-González, M. Rosenberg, E. Ruiz-Velasco, F. Salesa Greus, A. Sandoval, M. Schneider, H. Schoorlemmer, G. Sinnis, A. J. Smith, R. W. Springer, P. Surajbali, I. Taboada, O. Tibolla, K. Tollefson, I. Torres, G. Vianello, T. Weisgarber, S. Westerhoff, J. Wood, T. Yapici, P. W. Younk, and H. Zhou

Subjects
Physics, HAWC - Abteilung Hinton, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Annihilation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Wide field, Galaxy, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Space and Planetary Science, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract

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 diverse indirect searches for dark matter (DM) annihilation and decay. Among the most promising targets for the indirect detection of dark matter are dwarf spheroidal galaxies. These objects are expected to have few astrophysical sources of gamma rays but high dark matter content, making them ideal candidates for an indirect dark matter detection with gamma rays. Here we present individual limits on the annihilation cross section and decay lifetime for 15 dwarf spheroidal galaxies within the HAWC field-of-view, as well as their combined limit. These are the first limits on the annihilation cross section and decay lifetime using data collected with HAWC., Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables

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2017
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23. Searching for dark matter sub-structure with HAWC

Author

E. Moreno, I. Torres, R. W. Springer, Segev BenZvi, H. León Vargas, Maria Magdalena González, H. Salazar, C. Alvarez, S. S. Marinelli, J. P. Harding, A. Iriarte, I. Martinez-Castellanos, John Matthews, S. Dichiara, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, H. Fleischhack, J. D. Álvarez, Oscar Martinez, Arnulfo Zepeda, Nissim Fraija, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, Marvin Oliver Schneider, Carmen Espinoza, Ruben Alfaro, H. A. Ayala Solares, R. Noriega-Papaqui, K. Malone, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Giacomo Vianello, R. Arceo, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, Joe Lundeen, Andrea Albert, K. Tollefson, A. Sandoval, J. Martínez-Castro, G. Luis-Raya, M. Newbold, W. H. Lee, T. Weisgarber, Lukas Nellen, J. Cotzomi, Hao Zhou, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, B. Hona, P. Hüntemeyer, C. D. Rho, C. Brisbois, James W. Wood, A. J. Smith, A. L. Longinotti, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, M. J. F. Rosenberg, T. Yapici, M. Mostafá, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, S. Coutiño de León, Brenda Dingus, Z. Ren, K. Engel, F. Salesa Greus, Alejandro Lara, E. Belmont-Moreno, C. Rivière, Amid Nayerhoda, G. Sinnis, J. T. Linnemann, Michael DuVernois, A. Carramiñana, J. A. Goodman, D. Avila Rojas, A. Galván-Gámez, Sabrina Casanova, E. De la Fuente, J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez, C. De León, and M. U. Nisa

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Milky Way, media_common.quotation_subject, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Observatory, Sky, 0103 physical sciences, Halo, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, Dwarf galaxy, media_common
Abstract

Simulations of dark matter show a discrepancy between the expected number of Galactic dark matter sub-halos and how many have been optically observed. Some of these unseen satellites may exist as dark dwarf galaxies: sub-halos like dwarf galaxies with no luminous counterpart. Assuming WIMP dark matter, it may be possible to detect these unseen sub-halos from gamma-ray signals originating from dark matter annihilation. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is a very high energy (500 GeV to 100 TeV) gamma ray detector with a wide field-of-view and near continuous duty cycle, making HAWC ideal for unbiased sky surveys. We perform such a search for gamma ray signals from dark dwarfs in the Milky Way halo. We perform a targeted search of HAWC gamma-ray sources which have no known association with lower-energy counterparts, based on an unbiased search of the entire sky. With no sources found to strongly prefer dark matter models, we calculate the ability of HAWC to observe dark dwarfs. We also compute the HAWC sensitivity to potential future detections for a given model of dark matter substructure., Comment: 20 pages, 10 figures. submitted to JCAP

Published
2019

24. Search for TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from Point-like Sources in the Inner Galactic Plane with a Partial Configuration of the HAWC Observatory

Author

Karen S. Caballero-Mora, N. Bautista-Elivar, R. W. Springer, H. A. Ayala Solares, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, I. Torres, C. M. Hui, Lukas Nellen, O. Tibolla, C. Alvarez, David Kieda, Hao Zhou, P. Hüntemeyer, Segev BenZvi, B. M. Baughman, E. Moreno, J. Pretz, R. Alfaro, Fernando Garfias, Abel Bernal, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Thomas Weisgarber, M. Newbold, C. Rivière, H. Martinez, M. Gussert, J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez, G. Luis Raya, O. Enríquez-Rivera, T. Yapici, L. Villaseñor, H. León Vargas, J. T. Linnemann, J. P. Harding, A. Zepeda, P. W. Younk, J. A. Goodman, R. Pelayo, G. Sinnis, A. Carraminana, A. S. Barber, J. Martínez-Castro, S. Hernandez, D. W. Fiorino, Dirk Lennarz, R. W. Ellsworth, A. D. Becerril Reyes, A. Iriarte, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, D. Zaborov, James W. Wood, S. S. Marinelli, J. Braun, Ignacio Taboada, Brenda Dingus, M. Longo, B. Patricelli, W. H. Lee, Michael Schneider, I. G. Wisher, J. A. Matthews, Sabrina Casanova, Tyce DeYoung, A. Imran, J. Cotzomi, M. Mostafá, S. Westerhoff, J. D. Álvarez, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Kirsten Tollefson, M. Castillo, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, G. B. Yodh, Maria Magdalena González, R. J. Lauer, Z. Ren, O. Martinez, R. Noriega-Papaqui, S. Coutiño de León, Alejandro Lara, Michael DuVernois, P. Karn, A. Sandoval, E. De la Fuente, E. Belmont, K. Vrabel, Z. Hampel-Arias, T. N. Ukwatta, K. Malone, U. Cotti, A. J. Smith, T. Capistrán, R. Arceo, F. Salesa Greus, C. De León, K. Sparks Woodle, A. Marinelli, and N. Fraija

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), HAWC - Abteilung Hinton, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Point source, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Galactic plane, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Latitude, Space and Planetary Science, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Longitude, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract

A survey of the inner Galaxy region of Galactic longitude l in [+15, +50] degree and latitude b in [-4,+4] degree is performed using one-third of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory operated during its construction phase. To address the ambiguities arising from unresolved sources in the data, we use a maximum likelihood technique to identify point source candidates. Ten sources and candidate sources are identified in this analysis. Eight of these are associated with known TeV sources but not all have differential fluxes compatible with previous measurements. Three sources are detected with significances $>5\,\sigma$ after accounting for statistical trials, and are associated with known TeV sources., Comment: Submitted to ApJ, 34 pages, 6 figures. Contact authors: Hao Zhou and C. Michelle Hui

Published
2016

25. Publisher Correction: Very-high-energy particle acceleration powered by the jets of the microquasar SS 433

Author

S. Hernandez, S. Dichiara, C. De León, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Jim Hinton, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Sarah Kaufmann, Harm Schoorlemmer, C. M. Hui, E. Moreno, Hao Zhou, R. Noriega-Papaqui, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, William H. Lee, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Hui Li, Maria Magdalena González, R. J. Lauer, C. Rivière, Miguel Mostafa, Kirsten Tollefson, S. S. Marinelli, A. Sandoval, J. P. Harding, O. Tibolla, S. Coutiño de León, Michael Schneider, Luis Villaseñor, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, R. W. Springer, J. D. Álvarez, Z. Ren, Ruben Alfaro, Pooja Surajbali, Gus Sinnis, J. A. Goodman, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Z. Hampel-Arias, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, C. Alvarez, A. Zepeda, L. Nellen, Petra Hüntemeyer, Brenda Dingus, Anna Lia Longinotti, Fernando Garfias, Thomas Weisgarber, Arturo Iriarte, E. De la Fuente, F. Werner, D. Avila Rojas, E. Ruiz-Velasco, F. Salesa Greus, A. González-Muñoz, A. Carraminana, Kristi Engel, H. León Vargas, M. U. Nisa, R. Arceo, Binita Hona, Henrike Fleischhack, Chang Dong Rho, J. T. Linnemann, Chad Brisbois, Michael DuVernois, M. Seglar Arroyo, T. Yapici, R. W. Ellsworth, Nissim Illich Fraija, Michael Newbold, John Matthews, Giacomo Vianello, I. Martinez-Castellanos, G. B. Yodh, P. Kar, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, A. J. Smith, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Jennifer Pretz, Tomás Capistrán, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, James W. Wood, S. Westerhoff, Segev BenZvi, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Catalina Espinoza, Jesús Martínez-Castro, H. A. Ayala Solares, A. Nayerhoda, Haocheng Zhang, R. López-Coto, Andrea Albert, Kelly Malone, O. Martinez, Jorge Cotzomi, Gerd Joachim Kunde, Ke Fang, Umberto Cotti, A. Galván-Gámez, I. Taboada, Sabrina Casanova, V. Joshi, M. J. F. Rosenberg, M. Castillo, and Ibrahim Torres

Subjects
Physics, Acceleration, Multidisciplinary, High energy particle, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, 0103 physical sciences, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Computational physics
Abstract

In this Letter, owing to a production error, the penultimate version of the PDF was published. The HTML version was always correct. The PDF has been corrected online.

Published
2018

26. Sensitivity of HAWC to high-mass dark matter annihilations

Author

A. S. Barber, A. Imran, T. Oceguera-Becerra, Kevork N. Abazajian, E. C. Linares, Rodrigo Pelayo, B. Patricelli, Petra Hüntemeyer, S. Westerhoff, R. W. Ellsworth, U. Cotti, S. Silich, D. Zaborov, Z. Hampel-Arias, T. N. Ukwatta, D. W. Fiorino, Brenda Dingus, K. Tollefson, L. Villaseñor, J. A. Goodman, A. J. Smith, O. Martinez, E. De la Fuente, R. Luna-Garcia, G. B. Yodh, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, C. De León, M. Castillo, R. W. Springer, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, L. Nellen, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, A. Galindo, F. E. Sanchez, E. Belmont, L. Diaz-Cruz, P. W. Younk, J. Pretz, Dirk Lennarz, M. Longo, C. Alvarez, B. M. Baughman, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, R. Arceo, David Kieda, Varlen Grabski, R. A. Caballero-Lopez, James M. Ryan, Michael DuVernois, D. Berley, Maria Magdalena González, R. J. Lauer, E. Mendoza Torres, H. Martinez, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, F. Salesa, Nissim Illich Fraija, J. D. Álvarez, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Jesús Martínez-Castro, H. A. Ayala Solares, I. Torres, Joshua Wood, Colas Rivière, J. T. Linnemann, M. Bonilla Rosales, Michael Newbold, J. A.J. Matthews, A. Zepeda, Segev BenZvi, Jorge Cotzomi, R. Alfaro, M. Gussert, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Gerd Joachim Kunde, I. Taboada, G. Sinnis, J. Becerra González, A. Sandoval, Michael Schneider, I. G. Wisher, J. P. Harding, Julie McEnery, A. Marinelli, Fernando Garfias, Thomas Weisgarber, Alberto Carramiñana, H. León Vargas, K. Sparks Woodle, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, J. Braun, Miguel Mostafa, J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez, R. Diaz Hernandez, Arturo Iriarte, N. Bautista-Elivar, C. M. Hui, Hao Zhou, P. Karn, Alejandro Lara, R. Noriega-Papaqui, William H. Lee, and E. Moreno

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Annihilation, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Hot dark matter, Dark matter, Scalar field dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Galaxy, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Observatory, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Dwarf galaxy
Abstract

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a wide field-of-view detector sensitive to gamma rays of 100 GeV to a few hundred TeV. Located in central Mexico at 19 degrees North latitude and 4100 m above sea level, HAWC will observe gamma rays and cosmic rays with an array of water Cherenkov detectors. The full HAWC array is scheduled to be operational in Spring 2015. In this paper, we study the HAWC sensitivity to the gamma-ray signatures of high-mass (multi- TeV) dark matter annihilation. The HAWC observatory will be sensitive to diverse searches for dark matter annihilation, including annihilation from extended dark matter sources, the diffuse gamma-ray emission from dark matter annihilation, and gamma-ray emission from non-luminous dark matter subhalos. Here we consider the HAWC sensitivity to a subset of these sources, including dwarf galaxies, the M31 galaxy, the Virgo cluster, and the Galactic center. We simulate the HAWC response to gamma rays from these sources in several well-motivated dark matter annihilation channels. If no gamma-ray excess is observed, we show the limits HAWC can place on the dark matter cross-section from these sources. In particular, in the case of dark matter annihilation into gauge bosons, HAWC will be able to detect a narrow range of dark matter masses to cross-sections below thermal. HAWC should also be sensitive to non-thermal cross-sections for masses up to nearly 1000 TeV. The constraints placed by HAWC on the dark matter cross-section from known sources should be competitive with current limits in the mass range where HAWC has similar sensitivity. HAWC can additionally explore higher dark matter masses than are currently constrained., Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures, version to be published in PRD

Published
2014

27. The HAWC Real-time Flare Monitor for Rapid Detection of Transient Events

Author

Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, O. Martinez, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Mehr Nisa, J. Braun, S. Coutiño de León, H. A. Ayala Solares, Ignacio Taboada, J. P. Harding, M. Newbold, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Brenda Dingus, J. Martínez-Castro, J. Pretz, E. Moreno, J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez, N. Fraija, R. Arceo, P. W. Younk, Abel Bernal, Chad Brisbois, D. W. Fiorino, M. J. F. Rosenberg, J. T. Linnemann, Dirk Lennarz, R. W. Springer, Chang Dong Rho, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, Giacomo Vianello, Michael DuVernois, S. Hernandez, U. Cotti, Michael Schneider, I. G. Wisher, R. Luna-Garcia, C. Alvarez, David Kieda, Fernando Garfias, A. Becerril, A. J. Smith, I. Torres, A. González Muñoz, Ruben Lopez-Coto, A. Iriarte, Thomas Weisgarber, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, I. Martinez-Castellanos, M. Mostafá, T. Capistrán, Anna Lia Longinotti, F. Salesa Greus, M. Castillo, Pooja Surajbali, C. De León, A. Sandoval, H. León Vargas, Kristi Engel, Maria Magdalena González, R. J. Lauer, Sarah Kaufmann, K. Malone, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Kirsten Tollefson, H. Martínez-Huerta, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Z. Ren, T. Yapici, Harm Schoorlemmer, G. Luis Raya, A. Zepeda, R. Noriega-Papaqui, Sabrina Casanova, C. Rivière, V. Joshi, E. De la Fuente, Z. Hampel-Arias, D. Avila Rojas, T. N. Ukwatta, S. S. Marinelli, M. Gerhardt, J. D. Álvarez, J. A. Goodman, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Diego Lopez-Camara, J. Becerra González, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, P. Hüntemeyer, W. H. Lee, J. Cotzomi, Rodrigo Pelayo, S. Westerhoff, Binita Hona, G. Sinnis, Joshua A. Wood, A. Hernandez-Almada, A. Carraminana, A. S. Barber, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, R. W. Ellsworth, O. Tibolla, N. Bautista-Elivar, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, C. M. Hui, Lukas Nellen, Segev BenZvi, Hao Zhou, R. Alfaro, and J. A. Matthews

Subjects
HAWC - Abteilung Hinton, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astroparticle physics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Rapid detection, law.invention, Space and Planetary Science, law, 0103 physical sciences, Transient (oscillation), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Flare
Abstract

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 and is designed to detect very high energy (VHE; $E\gtrsim100$ GeV) transient events from blazars on time scales lasting from 2 minutes to 10 hours in order to facilitate multiwavelength and multimessenger studies. These flares provide information for investigations into the mechanisms that power the blazars' relativistic jets and accelerate particles within them, and they may also serve as probes of the populations of particles and fields in intergalactic space. To date, the detection of blazar flares in the VHE range has relied primarily on pointed observations by imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The recently completed HAWC observatory offers the opportunity to study VHE flares in survey mode, scanning 2/3 of the entire sky every day with a field of view of $\sim$1.8 steradians. In this work, we report on the sensitivity of the HAWC real-time flare monitor and demonstrate its capabilities via the detection of three high-confidence VHE events in the blazars Markarian 421 and Markarian 501., Comment: 19 pages, 14 figures, revised version submitted to The Astrophysical Journal on 1 June 2017

Published
2017

28. Observation of Small-scale Anisotropy in the Arrival Direction Distribution of TeV Cosmic Rays with HAWC

Author

B. M. Baughman, A. Carraminana, A. S. Barber, D. W. Fiorino, R. W. Ellsworth, A. Galindo, Fernando Garfias, Dirk Lennarz, M. Castillo, C. De León, Thomas Weisgarber, E. Ruiz-Velasco, D. Zaborov, H. León Vargas, Brenda Dingus, Arturo Iriarte, A. Imran, R. W. Springer, Gus Sinnis, B. Patricelli, G. B. Yodh, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, J. T. Linnemann, N. Bautista-Elivar, Maria Magdalena González, R. J. Lauer, R. Luna-Garcia, and H. Zhou, C. Alvarez, F. Salesa Greus, C. M. Hui, R. Arceo, Lukas Nellen, David Kieda, Petra Hüntemeyer, C. Rivière, Rodrigo Pelayo, Ruben Alfaro, Jorge Cotzomi, Z. Hampel-Arias, T. N. Ukwatta, P. W. Younk, J. P. Harding, U. Cotti, S. Westerhoff, P. Karn, Nissim Illich Fraija, L. Villaseñor, J. A. Goodman, A. J. Smith, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, E. De la Fuente, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, D. Berley, James M. Ryan, E. Belmont, Segev BenZvi, A. Sandoval, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, M. Gussert, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, E. Mendoza Torres, Michael Schneider, I. G. Wisher, I. Torres, Gerd Joachim Kunde, Joshua Wood, H. Martinez, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, R. Noriega-Papaqui, Jesús Martínez-Castro, William H. Lee, Arnulfo Zepeda, H. A. Ayala Solares, A. Marinelli, Jennifer Pretz, Kirsten Tollefson, I. Taboada, J. A. Matthews, Kelly Malone, S. S. Marinelli, J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez, Alejandro Lara, M. Bonilla Rosales, J. D. Álvarez, Michael Newbold, Michael DuVernois, O. Martinez, Julie McEnery, R. Diaz Hernandez, T. Oceguera-Becerra, K. Sparks Woodle, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, J. Braun, Miguel Mostafa, M. Longo, and E. Moreno

Subjects
media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Atomic, Physical Chemistry, Particle and Plasma Physics, cosmic rays, Observatory, Nuclear, Cherenkov radiation, media_common, Astroparticle physics, Physics, astro-ph.HE, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Gamma ray, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Molecular, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, astroparticle physics, Milagro, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
Abstract

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is sensitive to gamma rays and charged cosmic rays at TeV energies. The detector is still under construction, but data acquisition with the partially deployed detector started in 2013. An analysis of the cosmic-ray arrival direction distribution based on $4.9\times 10^{10}$ events recorded between June 2013 and February 2014 shows anisotropy at the $10^{-4}$ level on angular scales of about $10^\circ$. The HAWC cosmic-ray sky map exhibits three regions of significantly enhanced cosmic-ray flux; two of these regions were first reported by the Milagro experiment. A third region coincides with an excess recently reported by the ARGO-YBJ experiment. An angular power spectrum analysis of the sky shows that all terms up to $\ell=15$ contribute significantly to the excesses., Comment: 12 pages, 11 figures. Accepted by The Astrophysical Journal

Published
2014
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29. VAMOS: a Pathfinder for the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory

Author

D. W. Fiorino, N. Bautista-Elivar, F. Ángeles, C. M. Hui, Umberto Cotti, Hao Zhou, I. Taboada, I. Cabrera, Petra Hüntemeyer, E. Moreno, T. Oceguera-Becerra, Jorge Cotzomi, J. Nava, Z. Hampel-Arias, P. Karn, T. N. Ukwatta, J. A.J. Matthews, A. J. Smith, A. Zepeda, Erika Benítez, Nissim Illich Fraija, O. Martinez, K. Sparks Woodle, R. Arceo, Colas Rivière, S. Tinoco, M. Longo, Michael DuVernois, J. T. Linnemann, F. Ruiz-Sala, Fernando Garfias, Arturo Iriarte, J. D. Álvarez, A. Bernal, Thomas Weisgarber, Varlen Grabski, E. Ruiz-Velasco, E. Belmont, D. Zaborov, R. Langarica, Alberto Carramiñana, H. León Vargas, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, A. Imran, R. W. Springer, W. Wall, A. Rentería, A. González, C. De León, R. Noriega-Papaqui, C. Badillo, K. Tollefson, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, A. Tepe, L. Nellen, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Gerd Joachim Kunde, William H. Lee, I. Ramírez, C. Alvarez, Jesús Martínez-Castro, David Kieda, P. W. Younk, Ibrahim Torres, J. R. Sacahui, H. A. Ayala Solares, M. Martos, A. Galindo, Elton J. G. Santos, Dirk Lennarz, J. F. Valdés Galicia, M. Bonilla Rosales, Dany Page, E. C. Linares, E. De la Fuente, Michael Newbold, L. Castañeda-Martínez, James M. Ryan, B. Patricelli, G. B. Yodh, R. A. Caballero-Lopez, Alejandro Lara, D. Berley, L. Hernandez-Cervantes, E. Mendoza Torres, H. Martinez, F. Salesa, Luis Xavier Gonzalez, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, L. A. Martínez, Maria Magdalena González, R. J. Lauer, A. Fernandez, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, C. Guzmán-Ceron, G. Sinnis, J. Becerra González, Jennifer Pretz, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Guillermo Garcia-Torales, Rodrigo Pelayo, A. Sandoval, Michael Schneider, I. G. Wisher, S. Westerhoff, A. Marinelli, P. Vanegas, J. P. Harding, A. S. Barber, R. W. Ellsworth, Joshua Wood, F. Suarez, Ruben Alfaro, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, A. Avila-Aroche, R. Luna-Garcia, Deborah Dultzin, Segev BenZvi, S. Silich, Brenda Dingus, M. Castillo, A. Diaz-Azuara, L. Diaz-Cruz, M. Gussert, B. M. Baughman, L. Villaseñor, J. A. Goodman, J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez, Julie McEnery, R. Diaz Hernandez, A. Vázquez, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, J. Braun, G. Lara, and Miguel Mostafa

Subjects
Physics, media_common.quotation_subject, Detector, Gamma ray, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Data acquisition, Pathfinder, Observatory, Sky, Forbush decrease, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Cherenkov radiation, Remote sensing, media_common
Abstract

VAMOS was a prototype detector built in 2011 at an altitude of 4100m a.s.l. in the state of Puebla, Mexico. The aim of VAMOS was to finalize the design, construction techniques and data acquisition system of the HAWC observatory. HAWC is an air-shower array currently under construction at the same site of VAMOS with the purpose to study the TeV sky. The VAMOS setup included six water Cherenkov detectors and two different data acquisition systems. It was in operation between October 2011 and May 2012 with an average live time of 30%. Besides the scientific verification purposes, the eight months of data were used to obtain the results presented in this paper: the detector response to the Forbush decrease of March 2012, and the analysis of possible emission, at energies above 30 GeV, for long gamma-ray bursts GRB111016B and GRB120328B., Comment: Accepted for pubblication in Astroparticle Physics Journal (20 pages, 10 figures). Corresponding authors: A.Marinelli and D.Zaborov

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2014
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30. Sensitivity of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Detector to Sources of Multi-TeV Gamma Rays

Author

F. Salesa, Gerd J. Kunde, James M. Ryan, N. Bautista-Elivar, Ruben Alfaro, Dirk Lennarz, E. Moreno, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, D. W. Fiorino, S. Silich, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Alejandro Lara, A. Imran, Michael DuVernois, Miguel Mostafá, C. M. Hui, Lukas Nellen, Hao Zhou, E. C. Linares, Kirsten Tollefson, E. Belmont, J. T. Linnemann, Fernando Garfias, J. D. Álvarez, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Guillermo Garcia-Torales, R. A. Caballero-Lopez, D. Berley, K. Sparks, R. Noriega-Papaqui, J. Braun, Maria Magdalena González, R. J. Lauer, M. Castillo, William H. Lee, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, Thomas Weisgarber, J. Pretz, Luis Xavier Gonzalez, Tyce DeYoung, P. A. Toale, V. Grabski, P. Karn, J. A. Matthews, Arturo Iriarte, Segev BenZvi, M. Longo, R. Diaz Hernandez, I. Taboada, Jesús Martínez-Castro, H. A. Ayala Solares, S. Westerhoff, I. Torres, Joshua Wood, P. W. Younk, A. Fernandez, Elton J. G. Santos, A. Galindo, M. Bonilla Rosales, M. Gussert, Michael Newbold, E. De la Fuente, J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez, Colas Rivière, H. León Vargas, D. Zaborov, Jorge Cotzomi, G. B. Yodh, B. M. Baughman, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, L. Villaseñor, J. A. Goodman, R. Pelayo, A. Carraminana, A. S. Barber, G. Sinnis, B. Patricelli, R. W. Ellsworth, Jose Luis García-Luna, R. Luna-García, Brenda Dingus, Nissim Illich Fraija, R. W. Springer, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, C. Alvarez, David Kieda, Petra Hüntemeyer, J. Nava, Z. Hampel-Arias, T. N. Ukwatta, O. Martinez, U. Cotti, R. Arceo, A. J. Smith, C. De León, A. Sandoval, Michael Schneider, I. G. Wisher, Arnulfo Zepeda, A. Marinelli, and T. Oceguera-Becerra

Subjects
Cherenkov detector, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Atomic, law.invention, Particle and Plasma Physics, law, Observatory, Nuclear, Cherenkov radiation, media_common, Physics, astro-ph.HE, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Detector, Gamma ray, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Molecular, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Particle acceleration, TeV gamma-ray astronomy, Water cherenkov, Sky, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astronomical and Space Sciences
Abstract

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is an array of large water Cherenkov detectors sensitive to gamma rays and hadronic cosmic rays in the energy band between 100 GeV and 100 TeV. The observatory will be used to measure high-energy protons and cosmic rays via detection of the energetic secondary particles reaching the ground when one of these particles interacts in the atmosphere above the detector. HAWC is under construction at a site 4100 meters above sea level on the northern slope of the volcano Sierra Negra, which is located in central Mexico at 19 ° N latitude. It is scheduled for completion in 2014. In this paper we estimate the sensitivity of the HAWC instrument to point-like and extended sources of gamma rays. The source fluxes are modeled using both unbroken power laws and power laws with exponential cutoffs. HAWC, in one year, is sensitive to point sources with integral power-law spectra as low as 5 × 10 - 13 cm - 2 sec - 1 above 2 TeV (approximately 50 mCrab) over 5 sr of the sky. This is a conservative estimate based on simple event parameters and is expected to improve as the data analysis techniques are refined. We discuss known TeV sources and the scientific contributions that HAWC can make to our understanding of particle acceleration in these sources.

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2013
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31. The calibration system of the HAWC gamma-ray observatory

Author

C. M. Hui, H. A. Ayala Solares, F. Salesa Greus, H. Zhou, M. Gerhardt, Zhixiang Ren, and R. J. Lauer

Subjects
Physics, Observatory, Background suppression, Detector calibration, Astrophysics, Archaeology
Abstract

H. A. Ayala Solaresa, M. Gerhardta, C. M. Huia, R. J. Lauerb, Z. Renb, F. Salesa Greusc, and H. Zhoua for the HAWC Collaborationd aDepartment of Physics, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI, USA bDeptartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, 1919 Lomas Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM, USA cDepartment of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, 16802 University Park, PA, USA dFor a complete author list, see www.hawc-observatory.org/collaboration/icrc2015.php. E-mail: hayalaso@mtu.edu, mjgerhar@mtu.edu, cmhui@mtu.edu, rlauer@phys.unm.edu, zxren@unm.edu, sagreus@psu.edu, hzhou1@mtu.edu

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