First scientific contributions from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC), located at the slopes of the volcanoes Sierra Negra and Pico de Orizaba in Mexico, was inaugurated on March 20, 2015. However, data taking started in August 2013 with a partially deployed observatory and since then the instrument has collected da...

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Published inJournal of physics. Conference series Vol. 639; no. 1; pp. 12011 - 12015
Main Author Vargas, H León
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 14.09.2015
Subjects
Data collection
Field of view
Gamma rays
Ground-based observation
High altitude
Northern sky
Observatories
Physics
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Summary:The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC), located at the slopes of the volcanoes Sierra Negra and Pico de Orizaba in Mexico, was inaugurated on March 20, 2015. However, data taking started in August 2013 with a partially deployed observatory and since then the instrument has collected data as it got closer to its final configuration. HAWC is a ground based TeV gamma-ray observatory with a large field of view that will be used to study the Northern sky with high sensitivity. In this contribution we present some of the results obtained with the partially built instrument and the expected capabilities to detect different phenomena with the complete observatory.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/639/1/012011