All-sky observations with HAWC: latest results

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作者
Arteaga-Velazquez, J. C. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Michoacana, Inst Fis & Matemat, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE; GAMMA-RAY EMISSION; CRAB-NEBULA; COSMIC-RAYS; TEV; SEARCH; SENSITIVITY; ANISOTROPY;
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10.1088/1742-6596/632/1/012032
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a ground-based airshower detector designed to study cosmic rays and gamma rays with energies from 100 GeV up to 100 TeV. HAWC simultaneously surveys 2 sr of the northern sky with a high duty cycle > 90% in search for photons from point and extended sources, diffuse emission, transient events and other astrophysical phenomena at multi-TeV scales against the background of cosmic rays. In fact, the study of this background will open also the possibility of doing cosmic ray physics in the GeV - TeV regime and even to perform solar studies at HAWC. The observatory will consist of a densely packed array of 300 water Cherenkov tanks (4.5m tall and 7.3m diameter with 4 photomultipliers each) distributed on a 22 000 m(2) surface. Deployment started in March 2012 on a plateau situated on the Sierra Negra Volcano in the state of Puebla, Mexico, at an altitude of 4100 m. Construction is expected to be finished by the first months of 2015. In the mean time, HAWC has been taking data with a partial array and preliminary results have been already obtained. In this contribution, the results from the latest HAWC observations will be presented.
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