1. HAWC: A next generation all-sky gamma-ray telescope
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Andrew J Smith and the HAWC Collaboration
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Physics ,History ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Detector ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astronomy ,Particle detector ,Computer Science Applications ,Education ,Observatory ,Sky ,Milagro ,Transit (astronomy) ,Cherenkov radiation ,media_common ,Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope - Abstract
HAWC will have unprecedented sensitivity for a ground based particle detector array. It will be capable of observing the Crab at the 5σ level with each transit while simultaneously observing the entire northern sky (15 times the current Milagro detector sensitivity). The design an performance of the HAWC water Cherenkov gamma-ray observatory is presented.
- Published
- 2007
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