| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 145, 2017
ISVHECRI 2016 – XIX International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions
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| Article Number | 02002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Ground-Based Cosmic Ray and Gamma-Ray Experiments (II) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714502002 | |
| Published online | 26 June 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714502002
Cosmic Ray Astrophysics using The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory in México
1 Instituto de Astronomía y Meteorología, Departamento. de Física, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías (CUCEI), Universidad de Guadalajara, AV. Vallarta 2602, CP. 44130, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
2 Centro Universitario de los Valles (CUVALLES), Universidad de Guadalajara, Ameca Km. 45.5, CP. 46600, Ameca, Jalisco, México, and WIPAC & Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
3 Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CU, Av. Universidad 3000, CP. 04510, Ciudad de México, México
a e-mail: edfuente@astro.iam.udg.mx
b e-mail: juan.diazvelez@alumnos.udg.mx
c e-mail: albertby@hotmail.com
d e-mail: anigoche@gmail.com
e http://www.hawc-observatory.org/
Published online: 26 June 2017
The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) TeV gamma–ray Observatory in México is ready to search and study gamma-ray emission regions, extremely high-energy cosmic-ray sources, and to identify transient phenomena. With a better Gamma/Hadron rejection method than other similar experiments, it will play a key role in triggering multi–wavelength and multi–messenger studies of active galaxies (AGN), gamma-ray bursts (GRB), supernova remnants (SNR), pulsar wind nebulae (PWN), Galactic Plane Sources, and Cosmic Ray Anisotropies. It has an instantaneous field-of-view of ∼2 str, equivalent to 15% of the whole sky and continuous operation (24 hours per day). The results obtained by HAWC–111 (111 detectors in operation) were presented on the proceedings of the International Cosmic Ray Conference 2015 and in [1]. The results obtained by HAWC–300 (full operation) are now under analysis and will be published in forthcoming papers starting in 2017 (see preliminary results on http://www.hawc-observatory.org/news/). Here we present the HAWC contributions on cosmic ray astrophysics via anisotropies studies, summarizing the HAWC detector and its upgrading by the installation of “outriggers”.
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