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1. A Contribution of the HAWC Observatory to the TeV era in the High Energy Gamma-Ray Astrophysics: The case of the TeV-Halos

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Torres-Escobedo, Ramiro, Zhou, Hao, de la Fuente, Eduardo, Abeysekara, A. U., Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Camacho, J. R. Angeles, Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Arunbabu, K. P., Rojas, D. Avila, Solares, H. A. Ayala, Babu, R., Baghmanyan, V., Barber, A. S., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Belmont-Moreno, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Brisbois, C., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistrán, T., Carramiñana, A., Casanova, S., Chaparro-Amaro, O., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de León, S. Coutiño, de León, C., Diaz-Cruz, L., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., Durocher, M., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K., Espinoza, C., Fan, K. L., Fang, K., Alonso, M. Fernández, Fick, B., Fleischhack, H., Flores, J. L., Fraija, N. I., Garcia, D., García-González, J. A., García-Torales, G., Garfias, F., Giacinti, G., Goksu, H., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Herzog, I., Hinton, J., Hona, B., Huang, D., Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F., Hui, C. M., Humensky, B., Hüntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Jardin-Blicq, A., Jhee, H., Joshi, V., Kieda, D., Kunde, G J., Kunwar, S., Lara, A., Lee, J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J., Longinotti, A. L., López-Coto, R., Luis-Raya, G., Lundeen, J., Malone, K., Marandon, V., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castellanos, I., Martínez-Huerta, H., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., McEnery, J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Morales-Soto, J. A., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nayerhoda, A., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Olivera-Nieto, L., Omodei, N., Peisker, A., Araujo, Y. Pérez, Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Rho, C. D., Rivière, C., Rosa-Gonzalez, D., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Ryan, J., Salazar, H., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Schoorlemmer, H., Serna-Franco, J., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Springer, R. W., Surajbali, P., Taboada, I., Tanner, M., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Turner, R., Ureña-Mena, F., Villaseñor, L., Wang, X., Watson, I. J., Weisgarber, T., Werner, F., Willox, E., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., and Zepeda, A.

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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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We present a short overview of the TeV-Halos objects as a discovery and a relevant contribution of the High Altitude Water \v{C}erenkov (HAWC) observatory to TeV astrophysics. We discuss history, discovery, knowledge, and the next step through a new and more detailed analysis than the original study in 2017. TeV-Halos will contribute to resolving the problem of the local positron excess observed on the Earth. To clarify the latter, understanding the diffusion process is mandatory., Comment: Work presented in the 21st International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions(ISVHECRI 2022) as part of the Ph. D. Thesis of Ramiro Torres-Escobedo (SJTU, Shanghai, China). Accepted for publication in SciPost Physics Proceedings (ISSN 2666-4003). 11 pages, 3 Figures. Short overview of HAWC and TeV Halos objects until 2022

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2023

2. The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory in M\'exico: The Primary Detector

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Abeysekara, A. U., Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Álvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Araya, M., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Arunbabu, K. P., Rojas, D. Avila, Solares, H. A. Ayala, Babu, R., Barber, A. S., Becerril, A., Belmont-Moreno, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Blanco, O., Braun, J., Brisbois, C., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Martínez, J. I. Cabrera, Capistrán, T., Carramiñana, A., Casanova, S., Castillo, M., Chaparro-Amaro, O., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de León, S. Coutiño, de la Fuente, E., de León, C., De Young, T., Hernández, R. Díaz, Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Durocher, M., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K., Espinoza, C., Fan, K. L., Fang, K., Fick, U. B., Fleischhack, H., Flores, J. L., Fraija, N., García-González, J. A., García-Torales, G., Garfias, F., Giacinti, G., Goksu, H., González, M. M., González-Muñoz, A., Goodman, J. A., Harding, J. P., Hernández, E., Hernández, S., Hinton, J., Hona, B., Huang, D., Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F., Hui, C. M., Humensky, T. B., Hüntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Imran, A., Jardin-Blicq, A., Joshi, V., Kaufmann, S., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Longinotti, A. L., Luis-Raya, G., Lundeen, J., Malone, K., Marandon, V., Marinelli, A., Martínez, O., Martínez-Castellanos, I., Martínez-Castro, J., Martínez-Huerta, H., Matthews, J. A., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Montaruli, T., Morales-Soto, J. A., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nayerhoda, A., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Olivera-Nieto, L., Omodei, N., Peisker, A., Araujo, Y. Pérez, Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Ponce, E., Pretz, J., Rho, C. D., Rosa-González, D., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Salazar, H., Salazar-Gallegos, D., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Schoorlemmer, H., Serna-Franco, J., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Son, Y., Woodle, K. Sparks, Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Tepe, A., Tibolla, O., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Torres-Escobedo, R., Turner, R., Ureña-Mena, F., Ukwatta, T. N., Varela, E., Vargas-Magaña, M., Villaseñor, L., Wang, X., Watson, I. J., Werner, F., Westerhoff, S., Willox, E., Wisher, I., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
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The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a second-generation continuously operated, wide field-of-view, TeV gamma-ray observatory. The HAWC observatory and its analysis techniques build on experience of the Milagro experiment in using ground-based water Cherenkov detectors for gamma-ray astronomy. HAWC is located on the Sierra Negra volcano in M\'exico at an elevation of 4100 meters above sea level. The completed HAWC observatory principal detector (HAWC) consists of 300 closely spaced water Cherenkov detectors, each equipped with four photomultiplier tubes to provide timing and charge information to reconstruct the extensive air shower energy and arrival direction. The HAWC observatory has been optimized to observe transient and steady emission from sources of gamma rays within an energy range from several hundred GeV to several hundred TeV. However, most of the air showers detected are initiated by cosmic rays, allowing studies of cosmic rays also to be performed. This paper describes the characteristics of the HAWC main array and its hardware., Comment: Accepted for publications in Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A (2023) 168253 ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168900223002437 ); 39 pages, 14 Figures

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2023
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3. The TeV Sun Rises: Discovery of Gamma rays from the Quiescent Sun with HAWC

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Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Arteaga-Velazquez, J. C., Rojas, D. Avila, Solares, H. A. Ayala, Babu, R., Belmont-Moreno, E., Brisbois, C., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistran, T., Carraminana, A., Casanova, S., Chaparro-Amaro, O., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de Leon, S. Coutino, De la Fuente, E., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Durocher, M., Diaz-Velez, J. C., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K., Espinoza, C., Fan, K. L., Fang, K., Alonso, M. Fernandez, Fleischhack, H., Fraija, N., Garcia-Gonzalez, J. A., Garfia, F., Gonzalez, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Hinton, J., Huang, D., Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F., Huntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Joshi, V., Kaufmann, S., Lee, J., Linnemann, J. T., Longinotti, A. L., Luis-Raya, G., Malone, K., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Morales-Soto, J. A., Moreno, E., Mostafa, M., Nayerhoda, A., Nellen, L., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Olivera-Nieto, L., Omodei, N., Araujo, Y. Pérez, Perez-Perez, E. G., Rho, C. D., Rosa-Gonzalez, D., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Salazar, H., Salazar-Gallegos, D., Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Serna-Franco, J., Smith, A. J., Son, Y., Springer, R. W., Tibolla, O., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Torres-Escobedo, R., Turner, R., Urena-Mena, F., Wang, X., Watson, I. J., Willox, E., Yun-Cárcamo, S., Zhou, H., de León, C., Beacom, J. F., Linden, T., Ng, K. C. Y., Peter, A. H. G., and Zhou, B.

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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
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We report the first detection of a TeV gamma-ray flux from the solar disk (6.3$\sigma$), based on 6.1 years of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory. The 0.5--2.6 TeV spectrum is well fit by a power law, dN/dE = $A (E/1 \text{ TeV})^{-\gamma}$, with $A = (1.6 \pm 0.3) \times 10^{-12}$ TeV$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ and $\gamma = -3.62 \pm 0.14$. The flux shows a strong indication of anticorrelation with solar activity. These results extend the bright, hard GeV emission from the disk observed with Fermi-LAT, seemingly due to hadronic Galactic cosmic rays showering on nuclei in the solar atmosphere. However, current theoretical models are unable to explain the details of how solar magnetic fields shape these interactions. HAWC's TeV detection thus deepens the mysteries of the solar-disk emission., Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures including supplementary material. Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

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2022
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4. Gamma/Hadron Separation with the HAWC Observatory

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory observes atmospheric showers produced by incident gamma rays and cosmic rays with energy from 300 GeV to more than 100 TeV. A crucial phase in analyzing gamma-ray sources using ground-based gamma-ray detectors like HAWC is to identify the showers produced by gamma rays or hadrons. The HAWC observatory records roughly 25,000 events per second, with hadrons representing the vast majority ($>99.9\%$) of these events. The standard gamma/hadron separation technique in HAWC uses a simple rectangular cut involving only two parameters. This work describes the implementation of more sophisticated gamma/hadron separation techniques, via machine learning methods (boosted decision trees and neural networks), and summarizes the resulting improvements in gamma/hadron separation obtained in HAWC., Comment: 35 pages, 9 figures, published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A

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2022
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5. TeV emission of Galactic plane sources with HAWC and H.E.S.S

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Abdalla, H., Aharonian, F., Benkhali, F. Ait, Angüner, E. O., Arcaro, C., Armand, C., Armstrong, T., Ashkar, H., Backes, M., Baghmanyan, V., Martins, V. Barbosa, Barnacka, A., Barnard, M., Becherini, Y., Berge, D., Bernlöhr, K., Bi, B., Böttcher, M., Boisson, C., Bolmont, J., de Lavergne, M. de Bony, Breuhaus, M., Brose, R., Brun, F., Brun, P., Bryan, M., Büchele, M., Bulik, T., Bylund, T., Caroff, S., Carosi, A., Chand, T., Chandra, S., Chen, A., Cotter, G., Curyło, M., Mbarubucyeye, J. Damascene, Davids, I. D., Davies, J., Deil, C., Devin, J., Dirson, L., Djannati-Ataï, A., Dmytriiev, A., Donath, A., Doroshenko, V., Dreyer, L., Duffy, C., Dyks, J., Egberts, K., Eichhorn, F., Einecke, S., Emery, G., Ernenwein, J. -P., Feijen, K., Fegan, S., Fiasson, A., de Clairfontaine, G. Fichet, Fontaine, G., Funk, S., Füßling, M., Gabici, S., Gallant, Y. A., Giavitto, G., Giunti, L., Glawion, D., Glicenstein, J. F., Gottschall, D., Grondin, M. -H., Hahn, J., Haupt, M., Hermann, G., Hinton, J. A., Hofmann, W., Hoischen, C., Holch, T. L., Holler, M., Hörbe, M., Horns, D., Huber, D., Jamrozy, M., Jankowsky, D., Jankowsky, F., Jung-Richardt, I., Kasai, E., Kastendieck, M. A., Katarzyński, K., Katz, U., Khangulyan, D., Khélifi, B., Klepser, S., Kluźniak, W., Komin, Nu., Konno, R., Kosack, K., Kostunin, D., Kreter, M., Lamanna, G., Lemière, A., Lemoine-Goumard, M., Lenain, J. -P., Leuschner, F., Levy, C., Lohse, T., Lypova, I., Mackey, J., Majumdar, J., Malyshev, D., Marandon, V., Marchegiani, P., Marcowith, A., Mares, A., Martí-Devesa, G., Marx, R., Maurin, G., Meintjes, P. J., Meyer, M., Mitchell, A. M. W., Moderski, R., Mohrmann, L., Montanari, A., Moore, C., Morris, P., Moulin, E., Muller, J., Murach, T., Nakashima, K., Nayerhoda, A., de Naurois, M., Ndiyavala, H., Niemiec, J., Oakes, L., Brien, P. O, Odaka, H., Ohm, S., Olivera-Nieto, L., Wilhelmi, E. de Ona, Ostrowski, M., Panny, S., Panter, M., Parsons, R. D., Peron, G., Peyaud, B., Piel, Q., Pita, S., Poireau, V., Noel, A. Priyana, Prokhorov, D. A., Prokoph, H., Pühlhofer, G., Punch, M., Quirrenbach, A., Raab, S., Rauth, R., Reichherzer, P., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Remy, Q., Renaud, M., Rieger, F., Rinchiuso, L., Romoli, C., Rowell, G., Rudak, B., Sahakian, V., Sailer, S., Salzmann, H., Sanchez, D. A., Santangelo, A., Sasaki, M., Schäfer, J., Schüssler, F., Schutte, H. M., Schwanke, U., Seglar-Arroyo, M., Senniappan, M., Seyffert, A. S., Shafi, N., Shapopi, J. N. S., Shiningayamwe, K., Simoni, R., Sinha, A., Sol, H., Specovius, A., Spencer, S., Spir-Jacob, M., Stawarz, Ł., Sun, L., Steenkamp, R., Stegmann, C., Steinmassl, S., Steppa, C., Takahashi, T., Tavernier, T., Taylor, A. M., Terrier, R., Thiersen, J. H. E., Tiziani, D., Tluczykont, M., Tomankova, L., Trichard, C., Tsirou, M., Tuffs, R., Uchiyama, Y., van der Walt, D. J., van Eldik, C., van Rensburg, C., van Soelen, B., Vasileiadis, G., Veh, J., Venter, C., Vincent, P., Vink, J., Völk, H. J., Wadiasingh, Z., Wagner, S. J., Watson, J., Werner, F., White, R., Wierzcholska, A., Wong, Yu Wun, Yusafzai, A., Zacharias, M., Zanin, R., Zargaryan, D., Zdziarski, A. A., Zech, A., Zhu, S. J., Zmija, A., Zorn, J., Zouari, S., Żywucka, N., Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Arunbabu, K. P., Rojas, D. Avila, Belmont-Moreno, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Brisbois, C., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistrán, T., Carramiñana, A., Casanova, S., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de León, S. Coutiño, De la Fuente, E., de León, C., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Durocher, M., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K., Espinoza, C., Fan, K. L., Alonso, M. Fernández, Fraija, N., Galván-Gámez, A., Garcia, D., García-González, J. A., Garfias, F., Giacinti, G., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Hona, B., Huang, D., Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F., Hüntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Jardin-Blicq, A., Joshi, V., Kieda, D., Lee, W. H., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Longinotti, A. L., Luis-Raya, G., López-Coto, R., Malone, K., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castellanos, I., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Morales-Soto, J. A., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Omodei, N., Peisker, A., Araujo, Y. Pérez, Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Rho, C. D., Rosa-González, D., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Schoorlemmer, H., Serna-Franco, J., Smith, A. J., Springer, R. W., Surajbali, P., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Torres-Escobedo, R., Turner, R., Ureña-Mena, F., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Willox, E., and Zhou, H.

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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
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The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) are two leading instruments in the ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray domain. HAWC employs the water Cherenkov detection (WCD) technique, while H.E.S.S. is an array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). The two facilities therefore differ in multiple aspects, including their observation strategy, the size of their field of view and their angular resolution, leading to different analysis approaches. Until now, it has been unclear if the results of observations by both types of instruments are consistent: several of the recently discovered HAWC sources have been followed up by IACTs, resulting in a confirmed detection only in a minority of cases. With this paper, we go further and try to resolve the tensions between previous results by performing a new analysis of the H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey data, applying an analysis technique comparable between H.E.S.S. and HAWC. Events above 1 TeV are selected for both datasets, the point spread function of H.E.S.S. is broadened to approach that of HAWC, and a similar background estimation method is used. This is the first detailed comparison of the Galactic plane observed by both instruments. H.E.S.S. can confirm the gamma-ray emission of four HAWC sources among seven previously undetected by IACTs, while the three others have measured fluxes below the sensitivity of the H.E.S.S. dataset. Remaining differences in the overall gamma-ray flux can be explained by the systematic uncertainties. Therefore, we confirm a consistent view of the gamma-ray sky between WCD and IACT techniques.

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2021
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6. HAWC observations of the acceleration of very-high-energy cosmic rays in the Cygnus Cocoon

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Abeysekara, A. U., Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Camacho, J. R. Angeles, Arteaga-Velazquez, J. C., Arunbabu, K. P., Rojas, D. Avila, Solares, H. A. Ayala, Baghmanyan, V., Belmont-Moreno, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Blandford, R., Brisbois, C., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistran, T., Carraminana, A., Casanova, S., Cotti, U., de Leon, S. Coutino, De la Fuente, E., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Durocher, M., Diaz-Velez, J. C., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K., Espinoza, C., Fan, K. L., Fang, K., Fleischhack, H., Fraija, N., Galvan-Gamez, A., Garcia, D., Garcıa-Gonzalez, J. A., Garfias, F., Giacinti, G., Gonzalez, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Hinton, J., Hona, B., Huang, D., Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F., Huntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Jardin-Blicq, A., Joshi, V., Kieda, D., Lara, A., Lee, W. H., Vargas, H. Leon, Linnemann, J. T., Longinotti, A. L., Luis-Raya, G., Lundeen, J., Malone, K., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castellanos, I., Martinez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Soto, J. A. Morales, Moreno, E., Mostafa, M., Nayerhoda, A., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Olivera-Nieto, L., Omodei, N., Peisker, A., Araujo, Y. Perez, Perez-Perez, E. G., Ren, Z., Rho, C. D., Rosa-Gonzalez, D., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Salazar, H., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandova, A., Schneider, M., Schoorlemmer, H., Serna, F., Smith, A. J., Springer, R. W., Surajbali, P., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Torres-Escobedo, R., Urena-Mena, F., Weisgarber, T., Werner, F., Willox, E., Zepeda, A., Zhou, H., on, C. De Le, and Alvarez, J. D.

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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Cosmic rays with energies up to a few PeV are known to be accelerated within the Milky Way. Traditionally, it has been presumed that supernova remnants were the main source of very-high-energy cosmic rays but theoretically it is difficult to get protons to PeV energies and observationally there simply is no evidence to support the remnants as sources of hadrons with energies above a few tens of TeV. One possible source of protons with those energies is the Galactic Center region. Here we report observations of 1-100 TeV gamma rays coming from the 'Cygnus Cocoon', which is a superbubble surrounding a region of OB2 massive star formation. These gamma rays are likely produced by 10-1000 TeV freshly accelerated CRs originating from the enclosed star forming region Cygnus OB2. Hitherto it was not known that such regions could accelerate particles to these energies. The measured flux is likely originated by hadronic interactions. The spectral shape and the emission profile of the Cocoon changes from GeV to TeV energies, which reveals the transport of cosmic particles and historical activity in the superbubble.

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2021
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7. HAWC Search for High-Mass Microquasars

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HAWC Collaboration, Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Camacho, J. R. Angeles, Arteaga-Velazquez, J. C., Arunbabu, K. P., Rojas, D. Avila, Solares, H. A. Ayala, Baghmanyan, V., Belmont-Moreno, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Brisbois, C., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistran, T., Carraminana, A., Casanova, S., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., De la Fuente, E., de Leon, C., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Diaz-Velez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., Durocher, M., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Espinoza, C., Fan, K. L., Fang, K., Fraija, N., Galvan-Gamez, A., Garcia-Gonzalez, J. A., Garfias, F., Gonzalez, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Hona, B., Huang, D., Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F., Huntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Jardin-Blicq, A., Joshi, V., Kieda, D., Lara, A., Lee, J., Lee, W. H., Vargas, H. Leon, Linnemann, J. T., Longinotti, A. L., Luis-Raya, G., Lundeen, J., Malone, K., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Morales-Soto, J. A., Moreno, E., Mostafa, M., Nayerhoda, A., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Olivera-Nieto, L., Omodei, N., Peisker, A., Araujo, Y. Perez, Rho, C. D., Roh, Y. J., Rosa-Gonzalez, D., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Serna-Franco, J., Smith, A. J., Springer, R. W., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Torres-Escobedo, R., Turner, R., Urena-Mena, F., Villasenor, L., Watson, I. J., Weisgarber, T., Willox, E., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Microquasars with high-mass companion stars are promising very-high-energy (VHE; 0.1-100 TeV) gamma-ray emitters, but their behaviors above 10 TeV are poorly known. Using the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, we search for excess gamma-ray emission coincident with the positions of known high-mass microquasars (HMMQs). No significant emission is observed for LS 5039, Cygnus X-1, Cygnus X-3, and SS 433 with 1,523 days of HAWC data. We set the most stringent limit above 10 TeV obtained to date on each individual source. Under the assumption that HMMQs produce gamma rays via a common mechanism, we have performed source-stacking searches, considering two different scenarios: I) gamma-ray luminosity is a fraction $\epsilon_\gamma$ of the microquasar jet luminosity, and II) very-high-energy gamma rays are produced by relativistic electrons up-scattering the radiation field of the companion star in a magnetic field $B$. We obtain $\epsilon_\gamma < 5.4\times 10^{-6}$ for scenario I, which tightly constrains models that suggest observable high-energy neutrino emission by HMMQs. In the case of scenario II, the non-detection of VHE gamma rays yields a strong magnetic field, which challenges synchrotron radiation as the dominant mechanism of the microquasar emission between 10 keV and 10 MeV., Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJL

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

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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., Comment: 6 figures, 6 tables

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2021
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9. Evidence that Ultra-High-Energy Gamma Rays are a Universal Feature Near Powerful Pulsars

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The highest-energy known gamma-ray sources are all located within 0.5 degrees of extremely powerful pulsars. This raises the question of whether ultra-high-energy (UHE; $>$ 56 TeV) gamma-ray emission is a universal feature expected near pulsars with a high spin-down power. Using four years of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory, we present a joint-likelihood analysis of ten extremely powerful pulsars to search for UHE gamma-ray emission correlated with these locations. We report a significant detection ($>$ 3$\sigma$), indicating that UHE gamma-ray emission is a generic feature of powerful pulsars. We discuss the emission mechanisms of the gamma rays and the implications of this result. The individual environment that each pulsar is found in appears to play a role in the amount of emission., Comment: accepted by ApJL

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2021
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10. 3HWC: The Third HAWC Catalog of Very-High-Energy Gamma-ray Sources

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Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Camacho, J. R. Angeles, Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Arunbabu, K. P., Rojas, D. Avila, Solares, H. A. Ayala, Baghmanyan, V., Belmont-Moreno, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Brisbois, C., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistrán, T., Carramiñana, A., Casanova, S., Cotti, U., de León, S. Coutiño, De la Fuente, E., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Diaz-Cruz, L., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Durocher, M., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K., Espinoza, C., Fan, K. L., Fang, K., Alonso, M. Fernández, Fleischhack, H., Fraija, N., Galván-Gámez, A., Garcia, D., García-González, J. A., Garfias, F., Giacinti, G., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Hinton, J., Hona, B., Huang, D., Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F., Hüntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Jardin-Blicq, A., Joshi, V., Kieda, D., Lara, A., Lee, W. H., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Longinotti, A. L., Luis-Raya, G., Lundeen, J., López-Coto, R., Malone, K., Marandon, V., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castellanos, I., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Morales-Soto, J. A., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nayerhoda, A., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Olivera-Nieto, L., Omodei, N., Peisker, A., Araujo, Y. Pérez, Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Ren, Z., Rho, C. D., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Salazar, H., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Schoorlemmer, H., Serna, F., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Springer, R. W., Surajbali, P., Tabachnick, E., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Torres-Escobedo, R., Ukwatta, T. N., Ureña-Mena, F., Weisgarber, T., Werner, F., Willox, E., Zepeda, A., Zhou, H., de León, C., and Álvarez, J. D.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a new catalog of TeV gamma-ray sources using 1523 days of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory. The catalog represents the most sensitive survey of the Northern gamma-ray sky at energies above several TeV, with three times the exposure compared to the previous HAWC catalog, 2HWC. We report 65 sources detected at $\geq$ 5 sigma significance, along with the positions and spectral fits for each source. The catalog contains eight sources that have no counterpart in the 2HWC catalog, but are within $1^\circ$ of previously detected TeV emitters, and twenty sources that are more than $1^\circ$ away from any previously detected TeV source. Of these twenty new sources, fourteen have a potential counterpart in the fourth \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope catalog of gamma-ray sources. We also explore potential associations of 3HWC sources with pulsars in the ATNF pulsar catalog and supernova remnants in the Galactic supernova remnant catalog., Comment: 20 pages, 11 figures. Matches the version published in The Astrophysical Journal. See accompanying data release at https://data.hawc-observatory.org/datasets/3hwc-survey/index.php

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2020
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11. HAWC J2227+610 and its association with G106.3+2.7, a new potential Galactic PeVatron

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Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Camacho, J. R. Angeles, Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Arunbabu, K. P., Rojas, D. Avila, Solares, H. A. Ayala, Baghmanyan, V., Belmont-Moreno, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Brisbois, C., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistrán, T., Carramiñana, A., Casanova, S., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de León, S. Coutiño, De la Fuente, E., Diaz-Cruz, L., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K., Espinoza, C., Fan, K. L., Fang, K., Alonso, M. Fernández, Fleischhack, H., Fraija, N., Galván-Gámez, A., Garcia, D., García-González, J. A., Garfias, F., Giacinti, G., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Hinton, J., Hona, B., Huang, D., Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F., Hüntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Jardin-Blicq, A., Joshi, V., Lee, W. H., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Longinotti, A. L., Luis-Raya, G., Lundeen, J., Malone, K., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castellanos, I., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Morales-Soto, J. A., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nayerhoda, A., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Omodei, N., Peisker, A., Araujo, Y. Pérez, Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Rho, C. D., Rosa-González, D., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Salazar, H., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Schoorlemmer, H., Franco, J. Serna, Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Springer, R. W., Surajbali, P., Tabachnick, E., Tanner, M., Tibolla, O., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Torres-Escobedo, R., Ureña-Mena, F., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Zepeda, A., Zhou, H., de León, C., and Álvarez, J. D.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

We present the detection of VHE gamma-ray emission above 100 TeV from HAWC J2227+610 with the HAWC observatory. Combining our observations with previously published results by VERITAS, we interpret the gamma-ray emission from HAWC J2227+610 as emission from protons with a lower limit in their cutoff energy of 800 TeV. The most likely source of the protons is the associated supernova remnant G106.3+2.7, making it a good candidate for a Galactic PeVatron. However, a purely leptonic origin of the observed emission cannot be excluded at this time., Comment: Accepted for publication by ApJL

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2020
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12. Constraints on Lorentz invariance violation from HAWC observations of gamma rays above 100 TeV

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HAWC Collaboration, Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Camacho, J. R. Angeles, Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Arunbabu, K. P., Rojas, D. Avila, Solares, H. A. Ayala, Baghmanyan, V., Belmont-Moreno, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Brisbois, C., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistrán, T., Carramiñana, A., Casanova, S., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de León, S. Coutiño, De la Fuente, E., de León, C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K., Espinoza, C., Fleischhack, H., Fraija, N., Galván-Gámez, A., Garcia, D., García-González, J. A., Garfias, F., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Hona, B., Huang, D., Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F., Hüntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Joshi, V., Lara, A., Lee, W. H., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Longinotti, A. L., Luis-Raya, G., Lundeen, J., López-Coto, R., Malone, K., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez-Castellanos, I., Martínez-Castro, J., Martínez-Huerta, H., Matthews, J. A., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Morales-Soto, J. A., Moreno, E., Nayerhoda, A., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Omodei, N., Peisker, A., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Rho, C. D., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Rosenberg, M., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Salazar, H., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Schoorlemmer, H., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Springer, R. W., Surajbali, P., Tabachnick, E., Tanner, M., Tibolla, O., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Torres-Escobedo, R., Weisgarber, T., Yodh, G., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Due to the high energies and long distances to the sources, astrophysical observations provide a unique opportunity to test possible signatures of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV). Superluminal LIV enables the decay of photons at high energy. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is among the most sensitive gamma-ray instruments currently operating above 10 TeV. HAWC finds evidence of 100 TeV photon emission from at least four astrophysical sources. These observations exclude, for the strongest of the limits set, the LIV energy scale to $2.2\times10^{31}$ eV, over 1800 times the Planck energy and an improvement of 1 to 2 orders of magnitude over previous limits., Comment: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

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2019
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13. Constraining the Local Burst Rate Density of Primordial Black Holes with HAWC

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Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Arunbabu, K. P., Rojas, D. Avila, Solares, H. A. Ayala, Baghmanyan, V., Belmont-Moreno, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Brisbois, C., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistrán, T., Carramiñana, A., Casanova, S., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., De la Fuente, E., de León, C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K. L., Espinoza, C., Fleischhack, H., Fraija, N., Galván-Gámez, A., García-González, J. A., Garfias, F., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Hona, B., Huang, D., Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F., Hüntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Joshi, V., Lara, A., Lee, W. H., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Longinotti, A. L., Luis-Raya, G., Lundeen, J., López-Coto, R., Malone, K., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castellanos, I., Martínez-Castro, J., Martínez-Huerta, H., Matthews, J. A., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Morales-Soto, J. A., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nayerhoda, A., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Peisker, A., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Rho, C. D., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Rosenberg, M., Salazar, H., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Springer, R. W., Tabachnick, E., Tanner, M., Tibolla, O., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Torres-Escobedo, R., Weisgarber, T., Wood, J., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
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., Comment: Corresponding authors: K.L. Engel & A. Peisker. 13 pages, 5 figures

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2019
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14. Multiple Galactic Sources with Emission Above 56 TeV Detected by HAWC

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HAWC Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Camacho, J. R. Angeles, Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Arunbabu, K. P., Rojas, D. Avila, Solares, H. A. Ayala, Baghmanyan, V., Belmont-Moreno, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Brisbois, C., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistrán, T., Carramiñana, A., Casanova, S., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de León, S. Coutiño, De la Fuente, E., de León, C., Dichiara, S., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K., Espinoza, C., Fleischhack, H., Fraija, N., Galván-Gámez, A., Garcia, D., García-González, J. A., Garfias, F., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Hinton, J., Hona, B., Huang, D., Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F., Hüntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Jardin-Blicq, A., Joshi, V., Kaufmann, S., Kieda, D., Lara, A., Lee, W. H., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Longinotti, A. L., Luis-Raya, G., Lundeen, J., López-Coto, R., Malone, K., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castellanos, I., Martínez-Castro, J., Martínez-Huerta, H., Matthews, J. A., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Morales-Soto, J. A., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nayerhoda, A., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Peisker, A., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Ren, Z., Rho, C. D., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Rosenberg, M., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Schoorlemmer, H., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Springer, R. W., Surajbali, P., Tabachnick, E., Tanner, M., Tibolla, O., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Torres-Escobedo, R., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Wood, J., Yapici, T., Zhang, H., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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., Comment: Accepted by Physical Review Letters

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2019
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15. HAWC Contributions to the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2019)

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Abeysekara, A. U., Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Camacho, J. R. Angeles, Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Arunbabu, K. P., Rojas, D. Avila, Solares, H. A. Ayala, Baghmanyan, V., Barber, A. S., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Belmont-Moreno, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Braun, J., Brisbois, C., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistrán, T., Carramiñana, A., Casanova, S., Cotti12, U., Cotzomi, J., de León, S. Coutiño, De la Fuente, E., de León, C., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Diaz-Cruz, L., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dichiara, S., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K., Enríquez-Rivera, O., Espinoza, C., Alonso, M. Fernández, Fick, B., Fiorino, D. W., Fleischhack, H., Fraija, N., Galván-Gámez, A., García-González, J. A., Garcia-Luna, J. L., Garfias, F., Giacinti, G., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Hinton, J., Hona, B., Huang, D., Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Jardin-Blicq, A., Joshi, V., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Longinotti, A. L., López-Coto, R., Luis-Raya, G., Lundeen, J., Malone, K., Marandon, V., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castellanos, I., Martínez-Castro, J., Martínez-Huerta, H., Matthews, J. A. J., McEnery, J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Morales-Soto, J. A., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nayerhoda, A., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Peisker, A., Araujo, Y. Pérez, Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Ren, Z., Rho, C. D., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Rosenberg, M., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Ryan, J., Salazar, H., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Schoorlemmer, H., Arroyo, M. Seglar, Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Springer, R. W., Surajbali, P., Tabachnick, E., Taboada, I., Tanner, M., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Torres-Escobedo, R., Ukwatta, T. N., Vianello, G., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Werner, F., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yapici, T., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

List of proceedings from the HAWC Collaboration presented at the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 24 July - 1 August 2019, Madison, Wisconsin, USA., Comment: List of proceedings from the HAWC Collaboration presented at ICRC2019. Corrected typos in the index of the previous version. Follow the "HTML" link to access the list

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2019

16. Measurement of the Crab Nebula Spectrum Past 100 TeV with HAWC

Author

HAWC Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Camacho, J. R. Angeles, Acero, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Arunbabu, K. P., Rojas, D. Avila, Solares, H. A. Ayala, Baghmanyan, V., Belmont-Moreno, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Brisbois, C., Cabellero-Mora, K. S., Capistrán, T., Carramiñana, A., Casanova, S., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de León, S. Coutiño, De la Fuente, E., de León, C., Dichiara, S., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K., Espinoza, C., Fick, B., Fleischhack, H., Fraija, N., Galván-Gámez, A., García-González, J. A., Garfias, F., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Hinton, J., Hona, B., Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Jardin-Blicq, A., Joshi, V., Kaufmann, S., Kieda, D., Lara, A., Lee, W. H., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Longinotti, A. L., Luis-Raya, G., Lundeen, J., Malone, K., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castellanos, I., Martínez-Castro, J., Martínez-Huerta, H., Matthews, J. A., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Morales-Soto, J. A., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nayerhoda, A., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Peisker, A., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Ren, Z., Rho, C. D., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Rosenberg, M., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Salazar, H., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Schoorlemmer, H., Arroyo, M. Seglar, Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Springer, R. W., Surajbali, P., Tabachnick, E., Tanner, M., Tibolla, O., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wood, J., Yapici, T., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

We present TeV gamma-ray observations of the Crab Nebula, the standard reference source in ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, using data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory. In this analysis we use two independent energy-estimation methods that utilize extensive air shower variables such as the core position, shower angle, and shower lateral energy distribution. In contrast, the previously published HAWC energy spectrum roughly estimated the shower energy with only the number of photomultipliers triggered. This new methodology yields a much improved energy resolution over the previous analysis and extends HAWC's ability to accurately measure gamma-ray energies well beyond 100 TeV. The energy spectrum of the Crab Nebula is well fit to a log parabola shape $\left(\frac{dN}{dE} = \phi_0 \left(E/\textrm{7 TeV}\right)^{-\alpha-\beta\ln\left(E/\textrm{7 TeV}\right)}\right)$ with emission up to at least 100 TeV. For the first estimator, a ground parameter that utilizes fits to the lateral distribution function to measure the charge density 40 meters from the shower axis, the best-fit values are $\phi_o$=(2.35$\pm$0.04$^{+0.20}_{-0.21}$)$\times$10$^{-13}$ (TeV cm$^2$ s)$^{-1}$, $\alpha$=2.79$\pm$0.02$^{+0.01}_{-0.03}$, and $\beta$=0.10$\pm$0.01$^{+0.01}_{-0.03}$. For the second estimator, a neural network which uses the charge distribution in annuli around the core and other variables, these values are $\phi_o$=(2.31$\pm$0.02$^{+0.32}_{-0.17}$)$\times$10$^{-13}$ (TeV cm$^2$ s)$^{-1}$, $\alpha$=2.73$\pm$0.02$^{+0.03}_{-0.02}$, and $\beta$=0.06$\pm$0.01$\pm$0.02. The first set of uncertainties are statistical; the second set are systematic. Both methods yield compatible results. These measurements are the highest-energy observation of a gamma-ray source to date., Comment: published in ApJ

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2019
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17. MAGIC and Fermi-LAT gamma-ray results on unassociated HAWC sources

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Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Baack, D., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., de Almeida, U. Barres, Barrio, J. A., González, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berse, R. Ch., Berti, A., Bhattacharyya, W., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Ceribella, G., Chatterjee, A., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Di Pierro, F., Domínguez, A., Prester, D. Dominis, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fernández-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., López, R. J. García, Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Mielke, K., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Nagayoshi, T., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Rosillo, M. Nievas, Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takahashi, M., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Treves, A., Tsujimoto, S., Vanzo, G., Acosta, M. Vazquez, Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Zarić, D., Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Rojas, D. Avila, Solares, H. A. Ayala, Becerril, A., Belmont-Moreno, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Bernal, A., Braun, J., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistrán, T., Carramiñana, A., Casanova, S., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de León, S. Coutiño, De León, C., De la Fuente, E., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Dichiara, S., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K., Enriquez-Rivera, O., Fiorino, D. W., Fleischhack, H., Fraija, N., García-González, J. A., Garfias, F., González-Muñoz, A., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Jardin-Blicq, A., Joshi, V., Kaufmann, S., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Longinotti, A. L., Luis-Raya, G., Luna-García, R., López-Coto, R., Malone, K., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castellanos, I., Martínez-Castro, J., Martínez-Huerta, H., Matthews, J. A., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nayerhoda, A., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Pelayo, R., Pretz, J., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Ren, Z., Rho, C. D., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Rosenberg, M., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Arroyo, M. Seglar, Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Springer, R. W., Surajbali, P., Taboada, I., Tibolla, O., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Vianello, G., Villaseñor, L., Werner, F., Westerhoff, S., Wood, J., Yapici, T., Yodh, G., Zepeda, A., Zhou, H., Álvarez, J. D., Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Barbiellini, G., Berenji, B., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Caraveo, P. A., Castro, D., Cavazzuti, E., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Costantin, D., D'Ammando, F., de Palma, F., Desai, A., Di Lalla, N., Di Mauro, M., Di Venere, L., Favuzzi, C., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Harding, A. K., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Horan, D., Jóhannesson, G., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Liodakis, I., Loparco, F., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mazziotta, M. N., Mereu, I., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Palatiello, M., Paliya, V. S., Pesce-Rollins, M., Petrosian, V., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Rainò, S., Rani, B., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Tajima, H., Thayer, J. B., Thompson, D. J., Torres, D. F., Torresi, E., Troja, E., Valverde, J., Wood, K., and Yassine, M.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The HAWC Collaboration released the 2HWC catalog of TeV sources, in which 19 show no association with any known high-energy (HE; E > 10 GeV) or very-high-energy (VHE; E > 300 GeV) sources. This catalog motivated follow-up studies by both the MAGIC and Fermi-LAT observatories with the aim of investigating gamma-ray emission over a broad energy band. In this paper, we report the results from the first joint work between HAWC, MAGIC and Fermi-LAT on three unassociated HAWC sources: 2HWC J2006+341, 2HWC J1907+084* and 2HWC J1852+013*. Although no significant detection was found in the HE and VHE regimes, this investigation shows that a minimum 1 degree extension (at 95% confidence level) and harder spectrum in the GeV than the one extrapolated from HAWC results are required in the case of 2HWC J1852+013*, while a simply minimum extension of 0.16 degrees (at 95% confidence level) can already explain the scenario proposed by HAWC for the remaining sources. Moreover, the hypothesis that these sources are pulsar wind nebulae is also investigated in detail., Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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2019
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18. Very high energy particle acceleration powered by the jets of the microquasar SS 433

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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). Two jets of ionized matter with a bulk velocity of $\sim0.26c$ extend from the binary, perpendicular to the line of sight, and terminate inside W50, a supernova remnant that is being distorted by the jets. SS 433 differs from other microquasars in that the accretion is believed to be super-Eddington, and the luminosity of the system is $\sim10^{40}$ erg s$^{-1}$. The lobes of W50 in which the jets terminate, about 40 pc from the central source, are expected to accelerate charged particles, and indeed radio and X-ray emission consistent with electron synchrotron emission in a magnetic field have been observed. At higher energies (>100 GeV), the particle fluxes of $\gamma$ rays from X-ray hotspots around SS 433 have been reported as flux upper limits. In this energy regime, it has been unclear whether the emission is dominated by electrons that are interacting with photons from the cosmic microwave background through inverse-Compton scattering or by protons interacting with the ambient gas. Here we report TeV $\gamma$-ray observations of the SS 433/W50 system where the lobes are spatially resolved. The TeV emission is localized to structures in the lobes, far from the center of the system where the jets are formed. We have measured photon energies of at least 25 TeV, and these are certainly not Doppler boosted, because of the viewing geometry. We conclude that the emission from radio to TeV energies is consistent with a single population of electrons with energies extending to at least hundreds of TeV in a magnetic field of $\sim16$~micro-Gauss., Comment: Preprint version of Nature paper. Contacts: S. BenZvi, B. Dingus, K. Fang, C.D. Rho , H. Zhang, H. Zhou

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2018
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19. Constraining the $\bar{p}/p$ Ratio in TeV Cosmic Rays with Observations of the Moon Shadow by HAWC

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
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., Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures. Accepted by Physical Review D

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2018
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20. Extended gamma-ray sources around pulsars constrain the origin of the positron flux at Earth

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The unexpectedly high flux of cosmic ray positrons detected at Earth may originate from nearby astrophysical sources, dark matter, or unknown processes of cosmic-ray secondary production. We report the detection, using the HighAltitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC), of extended tera-electron volt gamma-ray emission coincident with the locations of two nearby middle-aged pulsars (Geminga and PSR B0656+14). The HAWC observations demonstrate that these pulsars are indeed local sources of accelerated leptons, but the measured tera-electron volt emission profile constrains the diffusion of particles away from these sources to be much slower than previously assumed. We demonstrate that the leptons emitted by these objects are therefore unlikely to be the origin of the excess positrons, which may have a more exotic origin., Comment: 16 pages (including supplementary material), 5 figures

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2017
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21. All-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum measured by the HAWC experiment from 10 to 500 TeV

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

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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

We report on the measurement of the all-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory in the energy range 10 to 500 TeV. HAWC is a ground based air-shower array deployed on the slopes of Volcan Sierra Negra in the state of Puebla, Mexico, and is sensitive to gamma rays and cosmic rays at TeV energies. The data used in this work were taken from 234 days between June 2016 to February 2017. The primary cosmic-ray energy is determined with a maximum likelihood approach using the particle density as a function of distance to the shower core. Introducing quality cuts to isolate events with shower cores landing on the array, the reconstructed energy distribution is unfolded iteratively. The measured all-particle spectrum is consistent with a broken power law with an index of $-2.49\pm0.01$ prior to a break at $(45.7\pm0.1$) TeV, followed by an index of $-2.71\pm0.01$. The spectrum also respresents a single measurement that spans the energy range between direct detection and ground based experiments. As a verification of the detector response, the energy scale and angular resolution are validated by observation of the cosmic ray Moon shadow's dependence on energy., Comment: 16 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables, submission to Physical Review D

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22. Data Acquisition Architecture and Online Processing System for the HAWC gamma-ray observatory

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HAWC collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Belmont-Moreno, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Diaz-Cruz, J., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harding, J. P., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Proper, M. Longo, Luna-García, R., Malone, K., Marinelli, A., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Martínez-Huerta, H., Matthews, J. A. J., McEnery, J., Torres, E. Mendoza, Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Ryan, J., Salazar, H., Greus, F. Salesa, Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinni, G., Smith, A. J., Woodle, K. Sparks, Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yapici, T., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
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., Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A

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

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

List of proceedings from the HAWC Collaboration presented at the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 12 July - 20 July 2017, Bexco, Busan, Korea., Comment: List of proceedings from the HAWC Collaboration presented at ICRC2017. Corrected typos in the index of the previous version. Follow the "HTML" link to access the list

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

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
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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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25. Search for very-high-energy emission from Gamma-ray Bursts using the first 18 months of data from the HAWC Gamma-ray Observatory

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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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26. The HAWC real-time flare monitor for rapid detection of transient events

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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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

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27. Daily monitoring of TeV gamma-ray emission from Mrk 421, Mrk 501, and the Crab Nebula with HAWC

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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We present results from daily monitoring of gamma rays in the energy range $\sim0.5$ to $\sim100$ TeV with the first 17 months of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory. Its wide field of view of 2 steradians and duty cycle of $>95$% are unique features compared to other TeV observatories that allow us to observe every source that transits over HAWC for up to $\sim6$ hours each sidereal day. This regular sampling yields unprecedented light curves from unbiased measurements that are independent of seasons or weather conditions. For the Crab Nebula as a reference source we find no variability in the TeV band. Our main focus is the study of the TeV blazars Markarian (Mrk) 421 and Mrk 501. A spectral fit for Mrk 421 yields a power law index $\Gamma=2.21 \pm0.14_{\mathrm{stat}}\pm0.20_{\mathrm{sys}}$ and an exponential cut-off $E_0=5.4 \pm 1.1_{\mathrm{stat}}\pm 1.0_{\mathrm{sys}}$ TeV. For Mrk 501, we find an index $\Gamma=1.60\pm 0.30_{\mathrm{stat}} \pm 0.20_{\mathrm{sys}}$ and exponential cut-off $E_0=5.7\pm 1.6_{\mathrm{stat}} \pm 1.0_{\mathrm{sys}}$ TeV. The light curves for both sources show clear variability and a Bayesian analysis is applied to identify changes between flux states. The highest per-transit fluxes observed from Mrk 421 exceed the Crab Nebula flux by a factor of approximately five. For Mrk 501, several transits show fluxes in excess of three times the Crab Nebula flux. In a comparison to lower energy gamma-ray and X-ray monitoring data with comparable sampling we cannot identify clear counterparts for the most significant flaring features observed by HAWC., Comment: 18 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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28. Search for Very High Energy Gamma Rays from the Northern $\textit{Fermi}$ Bubble Region with HAWC

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

We present a search of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the Northern $\textit{Fermi}$ Bubble region using data collected with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory. The size of the data set is 290 days. No significant excess is observed in the Northern $\textit{Fermi}$ Bubble region, hence upper limits above $1\,\text{TeV}$ are calculated. The upper limits are between $3\times 10^{-7}\,\text{GeV}\, \text{cm}^{-2}\, \text{s}^{-1}\,\text{sr}^{-1}$ and $4\times 10^{-8}\,\text{GeV}\,\text{cm}^{-2}\,\text{s}^{-1}\,\text{sr}^{-1}$. The upper limits disfavor a proton injection spectrum that extends beyond $100\,\text{TeV}$ without being suppressed. They also disfavor a hadronic injection spectrum derived from neutrino measurements.

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2017
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29. Multiwavelength follow-up of a rare IceCube neutrino multiplet

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Aartsen, M. G., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Samarai, I. Al, Altmann, D., Andeen, K., Anderson, T., Ansseau, I., Anton, G., Archinger, M., Argüelles, C., Auffenberg, J., Axani, S., Bai, X., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Tjus, J. Becker, Becker, K. -H., BenZvi, S., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Blaufuss, E., Blot, S., Bohm, C., Börner, M., Bos, F., Bose, D., Böser, S., Botner, O., Braun, J., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P., Bron, S., Burgman, A., Carver, T., Casier, M., Cheung, E., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Clark, K., Classen, L., Coenders, S., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Cowen, D. F., Cross, R., Day, M., de, J. P. A. M., ré, De Clercq, C., Rosendo, E. del Pino, Dembinski, H., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de Wasseige, G., de With, M., DeYoung, T., di Lorenzo, V., Dujmovic, H., Dumm, J. P., Dunkman, M., Eberhardt, B., Ehrhardt, T., Eichmann, B., Eller, P., Euler, S., Evenson, P. A., Fahey, S., Fazely, A. R., Feintzeig, J., Felde, J., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Flis, S., Fösig, C. -C., Franckowiak, A., Friedman, E., Fuchs, T., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Gerhardt, L., Ghorbani, K., Giang, W., Gladstone, L., Glauch, T., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Gonzalez, J. G., Grant, D., Griffith, Z., Haack, C., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hansen, E., Hansmann, T., Hanson, K., Hebecker, D., Heereman, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hickford, S., Hignight, J., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Hoshina, K., Huang, F., Huber, M., Hultqvist, K., In, S., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Japaridze, G. S., Jeong, M., Jero, K., Jones, B. J. P., Kang, W., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Katz, U., Kauer, M., Keivani, A., Kelley, J. L., Kheirandish, A., Kim, J., Kim, M., Kintscher, T., Kiryluk, J., Kittler, T., Klein, S. R., Kohnen, G., Koirala, R., Kolanoski, H., Konietz, R., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krings, K., Kroll, M., Krückl, G., Krüger, C., Kunnen, J., Kunwar, S., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Kyriacou, A., Labare, M., Lanfranchi, J. L., Larson, M. J., Lauber, F., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leuermann, M., Lu, L., Lünemann, J., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Mahn, K. B. M., Mancina, S., Mandelartz, M., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Maunu, R., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Medici, M., Meier, M., Menne, T., Merino, G., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Micallef, J., Momenté, G., Montaruli, T., Moulai, M., Nahnhauer, R., Naumann, U., Neer, G., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Pollmann, A. Obertacke, Olivas, A., O'Murchadha, A., Palczewski, T., Pandya, H., Pankova, D. V., Peiffer, P., Penek, Ö., Pepper, J. A., Heros, C. Pérez de los, Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Quinnan, M., Raab, C., Rädel, L., Rameez, M., Rawlins, K., Reimann, R., Relethford, B., Relich, M., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Richman, M., Riedel, B., Robertson, S., Rongen, M., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ryckbosch, D., Rysewyk, D., Sabbatini, L., Herrera, S. E. Sanchez, Sandrock, A., Sandroos, J., Sarkar, S., Satalecka, K., Schlunder, P., Schmidt, T., Schoenen, S., Schöneberg, S., Schumacher, L., Seckel, D., Seunarine, S., Soldin, D., Song, M., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stachurska, J., Stanev, T., Stasik, A., Stettner, J., Steuer, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stößl, A., Ström, R., Strotjohann, N. L., Sullivan, G. W., Sutherland, M., Taavola, H., Taboada, I., Tatar, J., Tenholt, F., Ter-Antonyan, S., Terliuk, A., Tešić, G., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Tobin, M. N., Toscano, S., Tosi, D., Tselengidou, M., Tung, C. F., Turcati, A., Unger, E., Usner, M., Vandenbroucke, J., van Eijndhoven, N., Vanheule, S., van Rossem, M., van Santen, J., Vehring, M., Voge, M., Vogel, E., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Wallace, A., Wallraff, M., Wandkowsky, N., Waza, A., Weaver, Ch., Weiss, M. J., Wendt, C., Westerhoff, S., Whelan, B. J., Wickmann, S., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Wille, L., Williams, D. R., Wills, L., Wolf, M., Wood, T. R., Woolsey, E., Woschnagg, K., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Xu, Y., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Zoll, M., Stanek, K. Z., Shappee, B. J., Kochanek, C. S., Holoien, T. W. -S., Prieto, J. L., Fox, D. B., DeLaunay, J. J., Turley, C. F., Barthelmy, S. D., Lien, A. Y., Mészáros, P., Murase, K., Kocevski, D., Buehler, R., Giomi, M., Racusin, J. L., Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Becerril, N. Baustista-Elivar A., Belmont-Moreno, E., Bernal, A., Brisbois, C., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistrán, T., Carramiñana, A., Casanova, S., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., de León, S. Coutiño, de la Fuente, E., De León, C., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., García-González, J. A., Gerhardt, M., Muñoz, A. González, González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Jardin-Blicq, A., Joshi, V., Kaufmann, S., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Raya, G. Luis, Luna-García, R., López-Coto, R., Malone, K., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castellanos, I., Martínez-Castro, J., Martínez-Huerta, H., Matthews, J. A., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Pelayo, R., Pretz, J., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Ren, Z., Rho, C. D., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Rosenberg, M., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Schoorlemmer, H., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Springer, R. W., Surajbali, P., Tibolla, O., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yapici, T., Zepeda, A., Zhou, H., Arcavi, I., Hosseinzadeh, G., Howell, D. A., Valenti, S., McCully, C., Lipunov, V. M., Gorbovskoy, E. S., Tiurina, N. V., Balanutsa, P. V., Kuznetsov, A. S., Kornilov, V. G., Chazov, V., Budnev, N. M., Gress, O. A., Ivanov, K. I., Tlatov, A. G., Lopez, R. Rebolo, Serra-Ricart, M., Evans, P. A., Kennea, J. A., Gehrels, N., Osborne, J. P., Page, K. L., Abeysekara, A. U., Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Brantseg, T., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V, Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Hütten, M., Hervet, O., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Krause, M., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Lin, T. T. Y., McArthur, S., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rulten, C., Sadeh, I., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Staszak, D., Trépanier, S., Tyler, J., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Wilcox, P., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., Bellm, E., Cano, Z., Gal-Yam, A., Kann, D. A., Ofek, E. O., Rigault, M., and Soumagnac, M.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

On February 17 2016, the IceCube real-time neutrino search identified, for the first time, three muon neutrino candidates arriving within 100 s of one another, consistent with coming from the same point in the sky. Such a triplet is expected once every 13.7 years as a random coincidence of background events. However, considering the lifetime of the follow-up program the probability of detecting at least one triplet from atmospheric background is 32%. Follow-up observatories were notified in order to search for an electromagnetic counterpart. Observations were obtained by Swift's X-ray telescope, by ASAS-SN, LCO and MASTER at optical wavelengths, and by VERITAS in the very-high-energy gamma-ray regime. Moreover, the Swift BAT serendipitously observed the location 100 s after the first neutrino was detected, and data from the Fermi LAT and HAWC observatory were analyzed. We present details of the neutrino triplet and the follow-up observations. No likely electromagnetic counterpart was detected, and we discuss the implications of these constraints on candidate neutrino sources such as gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and active galactic nucleus flares. This study illustrates the potential of and challenges for future follow-up campaigns., Comment: 23 pages, 13 figures, accepted by A&A on July 30 2017

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2017
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30. The 2HWC HAWC Observatory Gamma Ray Catalog

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

We present the first catalog of TeV gamma-ray sources realized with the recently completed High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC). It is the most sensitive wide field-of-view TeV telescope currently in operation, with a 1-year survey sensitivity of ~5-10% of the flux of the Crab Nebula. With an instantaneous field of view >1.5 sr and >90% duty cycle, it continuously surveys and monitors the sky for gamma ray energies between hundreds GeV and tens of TeV. HAWC is located in Mexico at a latitude of 19 degree North and was completed in March 2015. Here, we present the 2HWC catalog, which is the result of the first source search realized with the complete HAWC detector. Realized with 507 days of data and represents the most sensitive TeV survey to date for such a large fraction of the sky. A total of 39 sources were detected, with an expected contamination of 0.5 due to background fluctuation. Out of these sources, 16 are more than one degree away from any previously reported TeV source. The source list, including the position measurement, spectrum measurement, and uncertainties, is reported. Seven of the detected sources may be associated with pulsar wind nebulae, two with supernova remnants, two with blazars, and the remaining 23 have no firm identification yet., Comment: Submitted 2017/02/09 to the Astrophysical Journal

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2017
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31. Observation of the Crab Nebula with the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The Crab Nebula is the brightest TeV gamma-ray source in the sky and has been used for the past 25 years as a reference source in TeV astronomy, for calibration and verification of new TeV instruments. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC), completed in early 2015, has been used to observe the Crab Nebula at high significance across nearly the full spectrum of energies to which HAWC is sensitive. HAWC is unique for its wide field-of-view, nearly 2 sr at any instant, and its high-energy reach, up to 100 TeV. HAWC's sensitivity improves with the gamma-ray energy. Above $\sim$1 TeV the sensitivity is driven by the best background rejection and angular resolution ever achieved for a wide-field ground array. We present a time-integrated analysis of the Crab using 507 live days of HAWC data from 2014 November to 2016 June. The spectrum of the Crab is fit to a function of the form $\phi(E) = \phi_0 (E/E_{0})^{-\alpha -\beta\cdot{\rm{ln}}(E/E_{0})}$. The data is well-fit with values of $\alpha=2.63\pm0.03$, $\beta=0.15\pm0.03$, and log$_{10}(\phi_0~{\rm{cm}^2}~{\rm{s}}~{\rm{TeV}})=-12.60\pm0.02$ when $E_{0}$ is fixed at 7 TeV and the fit applies between 1 and 37 TeV. Study of the systematic errors in this HAWC measurement is discussed and estimated to be $\pm$50\% in the photon flux between 1 and 37 TeV. Confirmation of the Crab flux serves to establish the HAWC instrument's sensitivity for surveys of the sky. The HAWC survey will exceed sensitivity of current-generation observatories and open a new view of 2/3 of the sky above 10 TeV., Comment: Submitted 2017/01/06 to the Astrophysical Journal

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2017
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32. Search for TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from Point-like Sources in the Inner Galactic Plane with a Partial Configuration of the HAWC Observatory

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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

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2015
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33. HAWC Contributions to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015)

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HAWC Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Becerril, A., Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Bernal, A., Braun, J., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistrán, T., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de León, S. Coutiño, de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Diaz-Cruz, L., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K., Enriquez-Rivera, O., Fick, B., Fiorino, D. W., Flores, J. L., Fraija, N., Garcia-Torales, G., Garfias, F., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hansen, P., Harding, J. Patrick, Hernandez, S., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Proper, M. Longo, Raya, G. Luis, Luna-García, R., Malone, K., Marinelli, A., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., McEnery, J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. Un, Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Ren, Z., Rho, C. D., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Ryan, J., Salazar, H., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Smith, A. W., Woodle, K. Sparks, Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Tibolla, O., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yapici, T., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

List of proceedings from the HAWC Collaboration presented at the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 30 July - 6 August 2015, The Hague, The Netherlands., Comment: List of proceedings from the HAWC Collaboration presented at ICRC2015. Follow the "HTML" link to access the list

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2015

34. Search for gamma-rays from the unusually bright GRB 130427A with the HAWC Gamma-ray Observatory

Author

The HAWC collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., BenZvi, S. Y., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harding, J. P., Hüntemeyer, P., Hui, C. M., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-García, R., Malone, K., Marinelli, A., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A., Torres, E. Mendoza, Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T. O., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Woodle, K. Sparks, Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The first limits on the prompt emission from the long gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A in the $>100\nobreakspace\rm{GeV}$ energy band are reported. GRB 130427A was the most powerful burst ever detected with a redshift $z\lesssim0.5$ and featured the longest lasting emission above $100\nobreakspace\rm{MeV}$. The energy spectrum extends at least up to $95\nobreakspace\rm{GeV}$, clearly in the range observable by the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-ray Observatory, a new extensive air shower detector currently under construction in central Mexico. The burst occurred under unfavourable observation conditions, low in the sky and when HAWC was running 10% of the final detector. Based on the observed light curve at MeV-GeV energies, eight different time periods have been searched for prompt and delayed emission from this GRB. In all cases, no statistically significant excess of counts has been found and upper limits have been placed. It is shown that a similar GRB close to zenith would be easily detected by the full HAWC detector, which will be completed soon. The detection rate of the full HAWC detector may be as high as one to two GRBs per year. A detection could provide important information regarding the high energy processes at work and the observation of a possible cut-off beyond the $\mathit{Fermi}$-LAT energy range could be the signature of gamma-ray absorption, either in the GRB or along the line of sight due to the extragalactic background light., Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, published in ApJ

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2014
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35. Observation of Small-scale Anisotropy in the Arrival Direction Distribution of TeV Cosmic Rays with HAWC

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Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harding, J. P., Hüntemeyer, P., Hui, C. M., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-García, R., Malone, K., Marinelli, A., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., McEnery, J., Torres, E. Mendoza, Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Ryan, J., Salazar, H., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Woodle, K. Sparks, Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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

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

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Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Ángeles, F., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Avila-Aroche, A., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Badillo, C., Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Belmont, E., Benítez, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Bernal, A., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Cabrera, I., Carramiñana, A., Castañeda-Martínez, L., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Diaz-Azuara, A., Diaz-Cruz, L., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., Dultzin, D., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., García-Torales, G., Garfias, F., González, A., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Guzmán-Cerón, C., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harding, J. P., Hernández-Cervantes, L., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Langarica, R., Lara, A., Lara, G., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-Garcia, R., Marinelli, A., Martínez, L. A., Martínez, H., Martínez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Martos, M., Matthews, J. A. J., McEnery, J., Torres, E. Mendoza, Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Page, D. P., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Ramírez, I., Renter, A., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Ruiz-Sala, F., Ruiz-Velasco, E. L., Ryan, J., Sacahui, J. R., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Woodle, K. Sparks, Springer, R. W., Suarez, F., Taboada, I., Tepe, A., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Tinoco, S., Ukwatta, T. N., Galicia, J. F. Valdés, Vanegas, P., Vázquez, A., Villaseñor, L., Wall, W., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
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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37. Milagro Limits and HAWC Sensitivity for the Rate-Density of Evaporating Primordial Black Holes

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Abdo, A. A., Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Allen, B. T., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Aune, T., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Chen, C., Christopher, G. E., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Diaz-Cruz, L., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harding, J. P., Hays, E., Hoffman, C. M., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kolterman, B. E., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-GarcIa, R., MacGibbon, J. H., Marinelli, A., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., McEnery, J., Torres, E. Mendoza, Mincer, A. I., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Morgan, T., Mostafá, M., Nellen, L., Nemethy, P., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Ryan, J., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sandoval, A., Parkinson, P. M. Saz, Schneider, M., Shoup, A., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Stump, D., Woodle, K. Sparks, Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Vasileiou, V., Villaseñor, L., Walker, G. P., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Williams, D. A., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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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2014
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38. The Sensitivity of HAWC to High-Mass Dark Matter Annihilations

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Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Alvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velazquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carraminana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De Leon, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Diaz-Cruz, L., Diaz-Velez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., E., S. F., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., Gonzalez, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harding, J. P., Hui, C. M., Huentemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. Leon, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-Garcia, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., McEnery, J., Torres, E. Mendoza, Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafa, M., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Perez-Perez, E. G., Pretz, J., Riviere, C., Rosa-Gonzalez, D., Ryan, J., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Woodle, K. Sparks, Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villasenor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., Zhou, H., and Abazajian, K. N.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
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

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2014
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39. Milagro Observations of Potential TeV Emitters

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Abdo, A. A., Abeysekara, A. U., Allen, B. T., Aune, T., Barber, A. S., Berley, D., Braun, J., Chen, C., Christopher, G. E., DeYoung, T., Dingus, B. L., Ellsworth, R. W., Gonzalez, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Hays, E., Hoffman, C. M., Huntemeyer, P. H., Imran, A., Kolterman, B. E., Linnemann, J. T., McEnery, J. E., Morgan, T., Mincer, A. I., Nemethy, P., Pretz, J., Ryan, J. M., Parkinson, P. M. Saz, Schneider, M., Shoup, A., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Vasileiou, V., Walker, G. P., Williams, D. A., and Yodh, G. B.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

This paper reports the results from three targeted searches of Milagro TeV sky maps: two extragalactic point source lists and one pulsar source list. The first extragalactic candidate list consists of 709 candidates selected from the Fermi-LAT 2FGL catalog. The second extragalactic candidate list contains 31 candidates selected from the TeVCat source catalog that have been detected by imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). In both extragalactic candidate lists Mkn 421 was the only source detected by Milagro. This paper presents the Milagro TeV flux for Mkn 421 and flux limits for the brighter Fermi-LAT extragalactic sources and for all TeVCat candidates. The pulsar list extends a previously published Milagro targeted search for Galactic sources. With the 32 new gamma-ray pulsars identified in 2FGL, the number of pulsars that are studied by both Fermi-LAT and Milagro is increased to 52. In this sample, we find that the probability of Milagro detecting a TeV emission coincident with a pulsar increases with the GeV flux observed by the Fermi-LAT in the energy range from 0.1 GeV to 100 GeV., Comment: 18 pages, 6 Figures and 4 tables

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2014
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40. The Study of TeV Variability and Duty Cycle of Mrk 421 from 3 Years of Observations with the Milagro Observatory

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Abdo, A. A., Abeysekara, A. U., Allen, B. T., Aune, T., Barber, A. S., Berley, D., Braun, J., Chen, C., Christopher, G. E., Delay, R. S., DeYoung, T., Dingus, B. L., Ellsworth, R. W., Fraija, N., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Hays, E., Hoffman, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P. H., Imran, A., Kolterman, B. E., Linnemann, J. T., Marinelli, A., McEnery, J. E., Morgan, T., Mincer, A. I., Nemethy, P., Patricelli, B., Pretz, J., Ryan, J. M., Parkinson, P. M. Saz, Schneider, M., Shoup, A., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Vasileiou, V., Walker, G. P., Williams, D. A., and Yodh, G. B.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

TeV flaring activity with time scales as short as tens of minutes and an orphan TeV flare have been observed from the blazar Markarian 421 (Mrk 421). The TeV emission from Mrk 421 is believed to be produced by leptonic synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) emission. In this scenario, correlations between the X-ray and the TeV fluxes are expected, TeV orphan flares are hardly explained and the activity (measured as duty cycle) of the source at TeV energies is expected to be equal or less than that observed in X-rays if only SSC is considered. To estimate the TeV duty cycle of Mrk 421 and to establish limits on its variability at different time scales, we continuously observed Mrk 421 with the Milagro observatory. Mrk 421 was detected by Milagro with a statistical significance of 7.1 standard deviations between 2005 September 21 and 2008 March 15. The observed spectrum is consistent with previous observations by VERITAS. We estimate the duty cycle of Mrk 421 for energies above 1 TeV for different hypothesis of the baseline flux and for different flare selections and we compare our results with the X-ray duty cycle estimated by Resconi et al. 2009. The robustness of the results is discussed., Comment: 27 pages, 6 figures, ApJ accepted

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2014
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41. Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector

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IceCube Collaboration, Aartsen, M. G., Abbasi, R., Abdou, Y., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Altmann, D., Auffenberg, J., Bai, X., Baker, M., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Bechet, S., Tjus, J. Becker, Becker, K. -H., Benabderrahmane, M. L., BenZvi, S., Berghaus, P., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Bertrand, D., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blumenthal, J., Boersma, D. J., Bohaichuk, S., Bohm, C., Bose, D., Böser, S., Botner, O., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P., Brown, A. M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Carson, M., Casey, J., Casier, M., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Christy, B., Clark, K., Clevermann, F., Coenders, S., Cohen, S., Cowen, D. F., Silva, A. H. Cruz, Danninger, M., Daughhetee, J., Davis, J. C., Day, M., De Clercq, C., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dunkman, M., Eagan, R., Eberhardt, B., Eichmann, B., Eisch, J., Ellsworth, R. W., Euler, S., Evenson, P. A., Fadiran, O., Fazely, A. R., Fedynitch, A., Feintzeig, J., Feusels, T., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Fischer-Wasels, T., Flis, S., Franckowiak, A., Frantzen, K., Fuchs, T., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Gerhardt, L., Gladstone, L., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Golup, G., Gonzalez, J. G., Goodman, J. A., Góra, D., Grandmont, D. T., Grant, D., Groß, A., Ha, C., Ismail, A. Haj, Hallen, P., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hanson, K., Heereman, D., Heinen, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hickford, S., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Homeier, A., Hoshina, K., Huelsnitz, W., Hulth, P. O., Hultqvist, K., Hussain, S., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Jacobsen, J., Jagielski, K., Japaridze, G. S., Jero, K., Jlelati, O., Kaminsky, B., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Kelley, J. L., Kiryluk, J., Kläs, J., Klein, S. R., Köhne, J. -H., Kohnen, G., Kolanoski, H., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krasberg, M., Krings, K., Kroll, G., Kunnen, J., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Labare, M., Landsman, H., Larson, M. J., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leuermann, M., Leute, J., Lünemann, J., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Matis, H. S., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Merck, M., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Middell, E., Milke, N., Miller, J., Mohrmann, L., Montaruli, T., Morse, R., Nahnhauer, R., Naumann, U., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Obertacke, A., Odrowski, S., Olivas, A., O'Murchadha, A., Paul, L., Pepper, J. A., Heros, C. Pérez de los, Pfendner, C., Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Posselt, J., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Rädel, L., Rameez, M., Rawlins, K., Redl, P., Reimann, R., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Ribordy, M., Richman, M., Riedel, B., Rodrigues, J. P., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ruzybayev, B., Ryckbosch, D., Saba, S. M., Salameh, T., Sander, H. -G., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Schatto, K., Scheriau, F., Schmidt, T., Schmitz, M., Schoenen, S., Schöneberg, S., Schönwald, A., Schukraft, A., Schulte, L., Schulz, O., Seckel, D., Sestayo, Y., Seunarine, S., Shanidze, R., Sheremata, C., Smith, M. W. E., Soldin, D., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stasik, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stößl, A., Strahler, E. A., Ström, R., Sullivan, G. W., Taavola, H., Taboada, I., Tamburro, A., Tepe, A., Ter-Antonyan, S., Tešić, G., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Toscano, S., Unger, E., Usner, M., van Eijndhoven, N., Van Overloop, A., van Santen, J., Vehring, M., Voge, M., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Waldenmaier, T., Wallraff, M., Weaver, Ch., Wellons, M., Wendt, C., Westerhoff, S., Whitehorn, N., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Williams, D. R., Wissing, H., Wolf, M., Wood, T. R., Woschnagg, K., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Zarzhitsky, P., Ziemann, J., Zierke, S., and Zoll, M.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report on results of an all-sky search for high-energy neutrino events interacting within the IceCube neutrino detector conducted between May 2010 and May 2012. The search follows up on the previous detection of two PeV neutrino events, with improved sensitivity and extended energy coverage down to approximately 30 TeV. Twenty-six additional events were observed, substantially more than expected from atmospheric backgrounds. Combined, both searches reject a purely atmospheric origin for the twenty-eight events at the $4\sigma$ level. These twenty-eight events, which include the highest energy neutrinos ever observed, have flavors, directions, and energies inconsistent with those expected from the atmospheric muon and neutrino backgrounds. These properties are, however, consistent with generic predictions for an additional component of extraterrestrial origin., Comment: Revised version corrects the energy threshold for figure 7 (bottom) and one affiliation in the author list. The effective area (figure 7, top) is not affected and remains unchanged. The correction does not influence any of the results presented in the paper, and the text remains unchanged. Address correspondence to: Claudio Kopper, Naoko Kurahashi, Nathan Whitehorn

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42. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Observations of Cosmic Rays

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HAWC Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-GarcIa, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

We describe measurements of GeV and TeV cosmic rays with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory, or HAWC. The measurements include the observation of the shadow of the moon; the observation of small-scale and large-scale angular clustering of the TeV cosmic rays; the prospects for measurement of transient solar events with HAWC; and the observation of Forbush decreases with the HAWC engineering array and HAWC-30., Comment: Contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013

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43. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Dark Matter, Cosmology, and Fundamental Physics

Author

HAWC Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-GarcIa, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma Ray Observatory (HAWC) is designed to perform a synoptic survey of the TeV sky. The high energy coverage of the experiment will enable studies of fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model, and the large field of view of the detector will enable detailed studies of cosmologically significant backgrounds and magnetic fields. We describe the sensitivity of the full HAWC array to these phenomena in five contributions shown at the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (July 2013)., Comment: Contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013

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44. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Design, Calibration, and Operation

Author

HAWC Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-GarcIa, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma Ray Observatory (HAWC) is under construction 4100 meters above sea level at Sierra Negra, Mexico. We describe the design and cabling of the detector, the characterization of the photomultipliers, and the timing calibration system. We also outline a next-generation detector based on the water Cherenkov technique., Comment: Contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013

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45. The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory: Sensitivity to Steady and Transient Sources of Gamma Rays

Author

HAWC Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Baughman, B. M., Bautista-Elivar, N., Belmont, E., BenZvi, S. Y., Berley, D., Rosales, M. Bonilla, Braun, J., Caballero-Lopez, R. A., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Carramiñana, A., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., Cotzomi, J., de la Fuente, E., De León, C., DeYoung, T., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Fernandez, A., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., Galindo, A., Garfias, F., González, L. X., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Grabski, V., Gussert, M., Hampel-Arias, Z., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Imran, A., Iriarte, A., Karn, P., Kieda, D., Kunde, G. J., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linares, E. C., Linnemann, J. T., Longo, M., Luna-GarcIa, R., Marinelli, A., Martinez, H., Martinez, O., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A. J., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nava, J., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Oceguera-Becerra, T., Patricelli, B., Pelayo, R., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Pretz, J., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Salazar, H., Salesa, F., Sanchez, F. E., Sandoval, A., Santos, E., Schneider, M., Silich, S., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sparks, K., Springer, R. W., Taboada, I., Toale, P. A., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Westerhoff, S., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yodh, G. B., Younk, P. W., Zaborov, D., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory is designed to record air showers produced by cosmic rays and gamma rays between 100 GeV and 100 TeV. Because of its large field of view and high livetime, HAWC is well-suited to measure gamma rays from extended sources, diffuse emission, and transient sources. We describe the sensitivity of HAWC to emission from the extended Cygnus region as well as other types of galactic diffuse emission; searches for flares from gamma-ray bursts and active galactic nuclei; and the first measurement of the Crab Nebula with HAWC-30., Comment: Contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013

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2013

46. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part VI: Ice Properties, Reconstruction and Future Developments

Author

IceCube Collaboration, Aartsen, M. G., Abbasi, R., Abdou, Y., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Altmann, D., Auffenberg, J., Bai, X., Baker, M., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Bechet, S., Tjus, J. Becker, Becker, K. -H., Bell, M., Benabderrahmane, M. L., BenZvi, S., Berghaus, P., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Bertrand, D., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blumenthal, J., Boersma, D. J., Bohaichuk, S., Bohm, C., Bose, D., Böser, S., Botner, O., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P., Brown, A. M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Carson, M., Casey, J., Casier, M., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Christy, B., Clark, K., Clevermann, F., Coenders, S., Cohen, S., Cowen, D. F., Silva, A. H. Cruz, Danninger, M., Daughhetee, J., Davis, J. C., De Clercq, C., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dunkman, M., Eagan, R., Eberhardt, B., Eisch, J., Ellsworth, R. W., Euler, S., Evenson, P. A., Fadiran, O., Fazely, A. R., Fedynitch, A., Feintzeig, J., Feusels, T., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Fischer-Wasels, T., Flis, S., Franckowiak, A., Frantzen, K., Fuchs, T., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Gerhardt, L., Gladstone, L., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Golup, G., Gonzalez, J. G., Goodman, J. A., Góra, D., Grandmont, D. T., Grant, D., Groß, A., Ha, C., Ismail, A. Haj, Hallen, P., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hanson, K., Heereman, D., Heinen, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hickford, S., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Homeier, A., Hoshina, K., Huelsnitz, W., Hulth, P. O., Hultqvist, K., Hussain, S., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Jacobsen, J., Jagielski, K., Japaridze, G. S., Jero, K., Jlelati, O., Kaminsky, B., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Kelley, J. L., Kiryluk, J., Kläs, J., Klein, S. R., Köhne, J. -H., Kohnen, G., Kolanoski, H., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krasberg, M., Krings, K., Kroll, G., Kunnen, J., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Labare, M., Landsman, H., Larson, M. J., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leuermann, M., Leute, J., Lünemann, J., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Matis, H. S., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Merck, M., Mészáros, P., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Middell, E., Milke, N., Miller, J., Mohrmann, L., Montaruli, T., Morse, R., Nahnhauer, R., Naumann, U., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Obertacke, A., Odrowski, S., Olivas, A., Olivo, M., O'Murchadha, A., Paul, L., Pepper, J. A., Heros, C. Pérez de los, Pfendner, C., Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Posselt, J., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Rädel, L., Rameez, M., Rawlins, K., Redl, P., Reimann, R., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Ribordy, M., Richman, M., Riedel, B., Rodrigues, J. P., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ruzybayev, B., Ryckbosch, D., Saba, S. M., Salameh, T., Sander, H. -G., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Schatto, K., Scheel, M., Scheriau, F., Schmidt, T., Schmitz, M., Schoenen, S., Schöneberg, S., Schönwald, A., Schukraft, A., Schulte, L., Schulz, O., Seckel, D., Sestayo, Y., Seunarine, S., Shanidze, R., Sheremata, C., Smith, M. W. E., Soldin, D., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stasik, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stößl, A., Strahler, E. A., Ström, R., Sullivan, G. W., Taavola, H., Taboada, I., Tamburro, A., Tepe, A., Ter-Antonyan, S., Tešić, G., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Toscano, S., Usner, M., van der Drift, D., van Eijndhoven, N., Van Overloop, A., van Santen, J., Vehring, M., Voge, M., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Waldenmaier, T., Wallraff, M., Wasserman, R., Weaver, Ch., Wellons, M., Wendt, C., Westerhoff, S., Whitehorn, N., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Williams, D. R., Wissing, H., Wolf, M., Wood, T. R., Woschnagg, K., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Zarzhitsky, P., Ziemann, J., Zierke, S., and Zoll, M.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Papers on ice properties, reconstruction and future developments submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration., Comment: 28 pages, 38 figures; Papers submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro 2013; version 2 corrects errors in the author list

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47. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part I: Point Source Searches

Author

IceCube Collaboration, Aartsen, M. G., Abbasi, R., Abdou, Y., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Altmann, D., Auffenberg, J., Bai, X., Baker, M., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Bechet, S., Tjus, J. Becker, Becker, K. -H., Bell, M., Benabderrahmane, M. L., BenZvi, S., Berghaus, P., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Bertrand, D., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blumenthal, J., Boersma, D. J., Bohaichuk, S., Bohm, C., Bose, D., Böser, S., Botner, O., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P., Brown, A. M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Carson, M., Casey, J., Casier, M., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Christy, B., Clark, K., Clevermann, F., Coenders, S., Cohen, S., Cowen, D. F., Silva, A. H. Cruz, Danninger, M., Daughhetee, J., Davis, J. C., De Clercq, C., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dunkman, M., Eagan, R., Eberhardt, B., Eisch, J., Ellsworth, R. W., Euler, S., Evenson, P. A., Fadiran, O., Fazely, A. R., Fedynitch, A., Feintzeig, J., Feusels, T., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Fischer-Wasels, T., Flis, S., Franckowiak, A., Frantzen, K., Fuchs, T., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Gerhardt, L., Gladstone, L., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Golup, G., Gonzalez, J. G., Goodman, J. A., Góra, D., Grandmont, D. T., Grant, D., Groß, A., Ha, C., Ismail, A. Haj, Hallen, P., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hanson, K., Heereman, D., Heinen, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hickford, S., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Homeier, A., Hoshina, K., Huelsnitz, W., Hulth, P. O., Hultqvist, K., Hussain, S., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Jacobsen, J., Jagielski, K., Japaridze, G. S., Jero, K., Jlelati, O., Kaminsky, B., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Kelley, J. L., Kiryluk, J., Kläs, J., Klein, S. R., Köhne, J. -H., Kohnen, G., Kolanoski, H., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krasberg, M., Krings, K., Kroll, G., Kunnen, J., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Labare, M., Landsman, H., Larson, M. J., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leuermann, M., Leute, J., Lünemann, J., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Matis, H. S., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Merck, M., Mészáros, P., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Middell, E., Milke, N., Miller, J., Mohrmann, L., Montaruli, T., Morse, R., Nahnhauer, R., Naumann, U., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Obertacke, A., Odrowski, S., Olivas, A., Olivo, M., O'Murchadha, A., Paul, L., Pepper, J. A., Heros, C. Pérez de los, Pfendner, C., Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Posselt, J., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Rädel, L., Rameez, M., Rawlins, K., Redl, P., Reimann, R., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Ribordy, M., Richman, M., Riedel, B., Rodrigues, J. P., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ruzybayev, B., Ryckbosch, D., Saba, S. M., Salameh, T., Sander, H. -G., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Schatto, K., Scheel, M., Scheriau, F., Schmidt, T., Schmitz, M., Schoenen, S., Schöneberg, S., Schönwald, A., Schukraft, A., Schulte, L., Schulz, O., Seckel, D., Sestayo, Y., Seunarine, S., Shanidze, R., Sheremata, C., Smith, M. W. E., Soldin, D., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stasik, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stößl, A., Strahler, E. A., Ström, R., Sullivan, G. W., Taavola, H., Taboada, I., Tamburro, A., Tepe, A., Ter-Antonyan, S., Tešić, G., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Toscano, S., Usner, M., van der Drift, D., van Eijndhoven, N., Van Overloop, A., van Santen, J., Vehring, M., Voge, M., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Waldenmaier, T., Wallraff, M., Wasserman, R., Weaver, Ch., Wellons, M., Wendt, C., Westerhoff, S., Whitehorn, N., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Williams, D. R., Wissing, H., Wolf, M., Wood, T. R., Woschnagg, K., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Zarzhitsky, P., Ziemann, J., Zierke, S., and Zoll, M.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Papers on point source searches submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration., Comment: 51 pages, 51 figures; Papers submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro 2013; version 2 corrects errors in the author list

Published
2013

48. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part III: Cosmic Rays

Author

IceCube Collaboration, Aartsen, M. G., Abbasi, R., Abdou, Y., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Altmann, D., Auffenberg, J., Bai, X., Baker, M., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Bechet, S., Tjus, J. Becker, Becker, K. -H., Bell, M., Benabderrahmane, M. L., BenZvi, S., Berghaus, P., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Bertrand, D., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blumenthal, J., Boersma, D. J., Bohaichuk, S., Bohm, C., Bose, D., Böser, S., Botner, O., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P., Brown, A. M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Carson, M., Casey, J., Casier, M., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Christy, B., Clark, K., Clevermann, F., Coenders, S., Cohen, S., Cowen, D. F., Silva, A. H. Cruz, Danninger, M., Daughhetee, J., Davis, J. C., De Clercq, C., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dunkman, M., Eagan, R., Eberhardt, B., Eisch, J., Ellsworth, R. W., Euler, S., Evenson, P. A., Fadiran, O., Fazely, A. R., Fedynitch, A., Feintzeig, J., Feusels, T., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Fischer-Wasels, T., Flis, S., Franckowiak, A., Frantzen, K., Fuchs, T., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Gerhardt, L., Gladstone, L., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Golup, G., Gonzalez, J. G., Goodman, J. A., Góra, D., Grandmont, D. T., Grant, D., Groß, A., Ha, C., Ismail, A. Haj, Hallen, P., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hanson, K., Heereman, D., Heinen, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hickford, S., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Homeier, A., Hoshina, K., Huelsnitz, W., Hulth, P. O., Hultqvist, K., Hussain, S., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Jacobsen, J., Jagielski, K., Japaridze, G. S., Jero, K., Jlelati, O., Kaminsky, B., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Kelley, J. L., Kiryluk, J., Kläs, J., Klein, S. R., Köhne, J. -H., Kohnen, G., Kolanoski, H., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krasberg, M., Krings, K., Kroll, G., Kunnen, J., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Labare, M., Landsman, H., Larson, M. J., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leuermann, M., Leute, J., Lünemann, J., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Matis, H. S., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Merck, M., Mészáros, P., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Middell, E., Milke, N., Miller, J., Mohrmann, L., Montaruli, T., Morse, R., Nahnhauer, R., Naumann, U., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Obertacke, A., Odrowski, S., Olivas, A., Olivo, M., O'Murchadha, A., Paul, L., Pepper, J. A., Heros, C. Pérez de los, Pfendner, C., Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Posselt, J., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Rädel, L., Rameez, M., Rawlins, K., Redl, P., Reimann, R., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Ribordy, M., Richman, M., Riedel, B., Rodrigues, J. P., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ruzybayev, B., Ryckbosch, D., Saba, S. M., Salameh, T., Sander, H. -G., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Schatto, K., Scheel, M., Scheriau, F., Schmidt, T., Schmitz, M., Schoenen, S., Schöneberg, S., Schönwald, A., Schukraft, A., Schulte, L., Schulz, O., Seckel, D., Sestayo, Y., Seunarine, S., Shanidze, R., Sheremata, C., Smith, M. W. E., Soldin, D., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stasik, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stößl, A., Strahler, E. A., Ström, R., Sullivan, G. W., Taavola, H., Taboada, I., Tamburro, A., Tepe, A., Ter-Antonyan, S., Tešić, G., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Toscano, S., Usner, M., van der Drift, D., van Eijndhoven, N., Van Overloop, A., van Santen, J., Vehring, M., Voge, M., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Waldenmaier, T., Wallraff, M., Wasserman, R., Weaver, Ch., Wellons, M., Wendt, C., Westerhoff, S., Whitehorn, N., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Williams, D. R., Wissing, H., Wolf, M., Wood, T. R., Woschnagg, K., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Zarzhitsky, P., Ziemann, J., Zierke, S., and Zoll, M.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Papers on cosmic rays submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration., Comment: 40 pages, 53 figures; Papers submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro 2013; version 2 corrects errors in the author list

Published
2013

49. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part V: Neutrino Oscillations and Supernova Searches

Author

IceCube Collaboration, Aartsen, M. G., Abbasi, R., Abdou, Y., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Altmann, D., Auffenberg, J., Bai, X., Baker, M., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Bechet, S., Tjus, J. Becker, Becker, K. -H., Bell, M., Benabderrahmane, M. L., BenZvi, S., Berghaus, P., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Bertrand, D., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blumenthal, J., Boersma, D. J., Bohaichuk, S., Bohm, C., Bose, D., Böser, S., Botner, O., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P., Brown, A. M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Carson, M., Casey, J., Casier, M., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Christy, B., Clark, K., Clevermann, F., Coenders, S., Cohen, S., Cowen, D. F., Silva, A. H. Cruz, Danninger, M., Daughhetee, J., Davis, J. C., De Clercq, C., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dunkman, M., Eagan, R., Eberhardt, B., Eisch, J., Ellsworth, R. W., Euler, S., Evenson, P. A., Fadiran, O., Fazely, A. R., Fedynitch, A., Feintzeig, J., Feusels, T., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Fischer-Wasels, T., Flis, S., Franckowiak, A., Frantzen, K., Fuchs, T., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Gerhardt, L., Gladstone, L., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Golup, G., Gonzalez, J. G., Goodman, J. A., Góra, D., Grandmont, D. T., Grant, D., Groß, A., Ha, C., Ismail, A. Haj, Hallen, P., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hanson, K., Heereman, D., Heinen, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hickford, S., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Homeier, A., Hoshina, K., Huelsnitz, W., Hulth, P. O., Hultqvist, K., Hussain, S., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Jacobsen, J., Jagielski, K., Japaridze, G. S., Jero, K., Jlelati, O., Kaminsky, B., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Kelley, J. L., Kiryluk, J., Kläs, J., Klein, S. R., Köhne, J. -H., Kohnen, G., Kolanoski, H., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krasberg, M., Krings, K., Kroll, G., Kunnen, J., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Labare, M., Landsman, H., Larson, M. J., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leuermann, M., Leute, J., Lünemann, J., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Matis, H. S., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Merck, M., Mészáros, P., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Middell, E., Milke, N., Miller, J., Mohrmann, L., Montaruli, T., Morse, R., Nahnhauer, R., Naumann, U., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Obertacke, A., Odrowski, S., Olivas, A., Olivo, M., O'Murchadha, A., Paul, L., Pepper, J. A., Heros, C. Pérez de los, Pfendner, C., Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Posselt, J., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Rädel, L., Rameez, M., Rawlins, K., Redl, P., Reimann, R., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Ribordy, M., Richman, M., Riedel, B., Rodrigues, J. P., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ruzybayev, B., Ryckbosch, D., Saba, S. M., Salameh, T., Sander, H. -G., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Schatto, K., Scheel, M., Scheriau, F., Schmidt, T., Schmitz, M., Schoenen, S., Schöneberg, S., Schönwald, A., Schukraft, A., Schulte, L., Schulz, O., Seckel, D., Sestayo, Y., Seunarine, S., Shanidze, R., Sheremata, C., Smith, M. W. E., Soldin, D., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stasik, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stößl, A., Strahler, E. A., Ström, R., Sullivan, G. W., Taavola, H., Taboada, I., Tamburro, A., Tepe, A., Ter-Antonyan, S., Tešić, G., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Toscano, S., Usner, M., van der Drift, D., van Eijndhoven, N., Van Overloop, A., van Santen, J., Vehring, M., Voge, M., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Waldenmaier, T., Wallraff, M., Wasserman, R., Weaver, Ch., Wellons, M., Wendt, C., Westerhoff, S., Whitehorn, N., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Williams, D. R., Wissing, H., Wolf, M., Wood, T. R., Woschnagg, K., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Zarzhitsky, P., Ziemann, J., Zierke, S., and Zoll, M.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Papers on neutrino oscillation and supernova searches submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration., Comment: 27 pages, 30 figures; Papers submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro 2013; version 2 corrects errors in the author list

Published
2013

50. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Part IV: Searches for Dark Matter and Exotic Particles

Author

IceCube Collaboration, Aartsen, M. G., Abbasi, R., Abdou, Y., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Altmann, D., Auffenberg, J., Bai, X., Baker, M., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Bechet, S., Tjus, J. Becker, Becker, K. -H., Bell, M., Benabderrahmane, M. L., BenZvi, S., Berghaus, P., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Bertrand, D., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blumenthal, J., Boersma, D. J., Bohaichuk, S., Bohm, C., Bose, D., Böser, S., Botner, O., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P., Brown, A. M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Carson, M., Casey, J., Casier, M., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Christy, B., Clark, K., Clevermann, F., Coenders, S., Cohen, S., Cowen, D. F., Silva, A. H. Cruz, Danninger, M., Daughhetee, J., Davis, J. C., De Clercq, C., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dunkman, M., Eagan, R., Eberhardt, B., Eisch, J., Ellsworth, R. W., Euler, S., Evenson, P. A., Fadiran, O., Fazely, A. R., Fedynitch, A., Feintzeig, J., Feusels, T., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Fischer-Wasels, T., Flis, S., Franckowiak, A., Frantzen, K., Fuchs, T., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Gerhardt, L., Gladstone, L., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Golup, G., Gonzalez, J. G., Goodman, J. A., Góra, D., Grandmont, D. T., Grant, D., Groß, A., Ha, C., Ismail, A. Haj, Hallen, P., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hanson, K., Heereman, D., Heinen, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hickford, S., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Homeier, A., Hoshina, K., Huelsnitz, W., Hulth, P. O., Hultqvist, K., Hussain, S., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Jacobsen, J., Jagielski, K., Japaridze, G. S., Jero, K., Jlelati, O., Kaminsky, B., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Kelley, J. L., Kiryluk, J., Kläs, J., Klein, S. R., Köhne, J. -H., Kohnen, G., Kolanoski, H., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krasberg, M., Krings, K., Kroll, G., Kunnen, J., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Labare, M., Landsman, H., Larson, M. J., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leuermann, M., Leute, J., Lünemann, J., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Matis, H. S., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Merck, M., Mészáros, P., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Middell, E., Milke, N., Miller, J., Mohrmann, L., Montaruli, T., Morse, R., Nahnhauer, R., Naumann, U., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Obertacke, A., Odrowski, S., Olivas, A., Olivo, M., O'Murchadha, A., Paul, L., Pepper, J. A., Heros, C. Pérez de los, Pfendner, C., Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Posselt, J., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Rädel, L., Rameez, M., Rawlins, K., Redl, P., Reimann, R., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Ribordy, M., Richman, M., Riedel, B., Rodrigues, J. P., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ruzybayev, B., Ryckbosch, D., Saba, S. M., Salameh, T., Sander, H. -G., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Schatto, K., Scheel, M., Scheriau, F., Schmidt, T., Schmitz, M., Schoenen, S., Schöneberg, S., Schönwald, A., Schukraft, A., Schulte, L., Schulz, O., Seckel, D., Sestayo, Y., Seunarine, S., Shanidze, R., Sheremata, C., Smith, M. W. E., Soldin, D., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stasik, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stößl, A., Strahler, E. A., Ström, R., Sullivan, G. W., Taavola, H., Taboada, I., Tamburro, A., Tepe, A., Ter-Antonyan, S., Tešić, G., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Toscano, S., Usner, M., van der Drift, D., van Eijndhoven, N., Van Overloop, A., van Santen, J., Vehring, M., Voge, M., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Waldenmaier, T., Wallraff, M., Wasserman, R., Weaver, Ch., Wellons, M., Wendt, C., Westerhoff, S., Whitehorn, N., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Williams, D. R., Wissing, H., Wolf, M., Wood, T. R., Woschnagg, K., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Zarzhitsky, P., Ziemann, J., Zierke, S., and Zoll, M.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Papers on searches for Dark Matter and exotic particles submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (Rio de Janeiro 2013) by the IceCube Collaboration., Comment: 32 pages, 38 figures; Papers submitted to the 33nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro 2013; version 2 corrects errors in the author list

Published
2013

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