Speaker
Dr.
Francisco Salesa Greus
(Pennsylvania State University)
Description
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is a TeV gamma-ray detector located at an altitude of 4100 meters on the northern slope of the Sierra Negra volcano in the state of Puebla, Mexico. The detector will consist of 300 water Cherenkov detectors spread on a 22000 square meter area, and is expected to be fully operational by fall this year. Thanks to its large field-of-view, good angular resolution and >90% duty cycle, HAWC will allow us to study the Galactic sources at high energies (100 GeV - 100TeV), diffuse gamma-ray emission, and transient emissions from Active Galactic Nuclei and Gamma-Ray Bursts.
The detector started its continuous operation in August 2013 with a fraction of the array, and its size has been increasing since then. In this talk, I will present the first results of the experiment with almost one year of data.
Primary author
Dr.
Francisco Salesa Greus
(Pennsylvania State University)
Co-author
The HAWC COLLABORATION
(The HAWC Observatory)
