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1. On the Contribution of Unresolved Pulsars to the Ultra-high-energy Galactic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission

Author: Samy Kaci, Gwenael Giacinti, and Dmitri Semikoz
Subjects: Pulsar wind nebulae, Galactic cosmic rays, Gamma-ray astronomy, Particle astrophysics, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: The ultra-high-energy (UHE) Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission holds important information on the propagation of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. However, its measurements suffer from a contamination from unresolved sources whose contribution remains unclear. In this Letter, we propose a novel data-driven estimate of the contribution of unresolved pulsar wind nebulae and TeV halos based on the information present in the Australia Telescope National Facility and the LHAASO catalogs. We find that in the inner Galaxy, this contribution is limited to ∼38% ± 10% of the diffuse flux measured by LHAASO at ∼20 TeV in the case where all sources associated to pulsars contribute as unresolved sources, and this fraction drops to less than 21% ± 6% above 100 TeV. In the outer Galaxy, this contribution is always subdominant. In particular, it reaches at most ∼18% ± 2% at 10 TeV and is less than ∼7% ± 1% above ∼25 TeV. We conclude that the UHE Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission cannot be dominated by unresolved pulsar sources above a few tens of TeV.
Published: 2024
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2. Bell Instability–mediated Diffusive Shock Acceleration at Supernova Blast Wave Shock Propagating in the Interstellar Medium

Author: Tsuyoshi Inoue, Alexandre Marcowith, and Gwenael Giacinti
Subjects: Supernova remnants, Cosmic rays, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: Supernova blast wave shock is a very important site of cosmic-ray acceleration. However, the detailed physical process of acceleration, in particular, nonlinear interplay between cosmic-ray streaming and magnetic field amplification, has not been studied under a realistic environment. In this paper, using a unique and novel numerical method, we study cosmic-ray acceleration at supernova blast wave shock propagating in the interstellar medium with well-resolved magnetic field amplification by nonresonant hybrid instability (or Bell instability). We find that the magnetic field is mildly amplified under typical interstellar medium conditions that leads to maximum cosmic-ray energy ≃30 TeV for supernova remnants with age ≃1000 yr consistent with gamma-ray observations. The strength of the amplified magnetic field does not reach the so-called saturation level because the cosmic-ray electric current toward the shock upstream has a finite spatial extent, by which Bell instability cannot experience many e -folding times.
Published: 2024
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3. Particle acceleration at pulsar wind termination shocks revisited: shear, reconnection and giant plasmoids

Author: Benoît Cerutti and Gwenael Giacinti
Published: 2023
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4. Prospects for ultra-high-energy particle acceleration at relativistic shocks

Author: Zhi-Qiu Huang, Brian Reville, John G Kirk, and Gwenael Giacinti
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Space and Planetary Science, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We study the acceleration of charged particles by ultra-relativistic shocks using test-particle Monte Carlo simulations. Two field configurations are considered: (i) shocks with uniform upstream magnetic field in the plane of the shock, and (ii) shocks in which the upstream magnetic field has a cylindrical geometry. Particles are assumed to diffuse in angle due to frequent non-resonant scattering on small-scale fields. The steady-state distribution of particles’ Lorentz factors is shown to approximately satisfy dN/dγ ∝ γ−2.2 provided the particle motion is scattering dominated on at least one side of the shock. For scattering dominated transport, the acceleration rate scales as tacc ∝ t1/2, though recovers Bohm scaling tacc ∝ t if particles become magnetized on one side of the shock. For uniform field configurations, a limiting energy is reached when particles are magnetized on both sides of the shock. For the cylindrical field configuration, this limit does not apply, and particles of one sign of charge will experience a curvature drift that redirects particles upstream. For the non-resonant scattering model considered, these particles preferentially escape only when they reach the confinement limit determined by the finite system size, and the distribution approaches the escapeless limit dN/dγ ∝ γ−1. The cylindrical field configuration resembles that expected for jets launched by the Blandford & Znajek mechanism, the luminous jets of active galactic nuclei and gamma-ray bursts thus provide favourable sites for the production of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
Published: 2023
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5. Cosmic-ray current-driven instabilities – revisiting environmental conditions

Author: Brian Reville, Gwenael Giacinti, and Robyn Scott
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Plasma, 01 natural sciences, Physics - Plasma Physics, Computational physics, Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph), Space and Planetary Science, Dispersion relation, 0103 physical sciences, Current (fluid), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010306 general physics, Anisotropy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract: The growth of magneto-hydrodynamic fluctuations relevant to cosmic ray confinement in and near their sources, and the effects of local plasma conditions is revisited. We consider cases where cosmic rays penetrate a medium which may contain a fraction of neutral particles, and explore the possible effects of high-order cosmic-ray anisotropies. An algorithm for calculating the dispersion relation for arbitrary distributions, and anisotropies is presented, and a general solution for power-law cosmic-ray distributions is provided. Implications for the resulting instabilities near to strong Galactic cosmic-ray sources are discussed. We argue that cosmic-ray streaming in weakly ionised plasmas eliminates the need for the existence of an evanescent band in the dispersion relation, a conclusion which may be confirmed by gamma-ray observations. The necessity for additional multi-scale numerical simulations is highlighted, as understanding the non-linear behaviour is crucial., Accepted to MNRAS
Published: 2021
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6. Horizontal muon track identification with neural networks in HAWC

Author: Ian Herzog, Lukas Nellen, Hao Zhou, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Segev BenZvi, Nicola Omodei, Samridha Kunwar, Arturo Iriarte, Israel Martinez Castellanos, David Kieda, Ke Fang, Hannah Jhee, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Harm Schoorlemmer, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Michael Newbold, Francisco Salesa Greus, Fernando Garfias, J. A. Goodman, Joshua Wood, David Berley, Nissim Illich Fraija, Alison Peisker, Thomas Weisgarber, Andrew James Smith, Xiaojie Wang, Henrike Fleischhack, Rishi Babu, Kelly Malone, Jason Fan, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Rhiannon Turner, Chad Brisbois, Vikas Joshi, Kristi Engel, Dezhi Huang, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Brenda Dingus, Mehr Nisa, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Ian James Watson, Vardan Baghmanyan, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Hawc, Miguel Mostafa, Dirk Lennarz, Jorge Luis Flores, Cederik León de León, Ibrahim Torres, Joe Lundeen, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Maria Magdalena González, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Kirsten Tollefson, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Andrea Albert, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Eduardo de la Fuente, Gwenael Giacinti, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Robert Ellsworth, Meghan Tanner, Gerd J. Kunde, Colas Rivière, Hermes Leon Vargas, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Umberto Cotti, Arnulfo Zepeda, Sabrina Casanova, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Brian Fick, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Lorenzo Diaz, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Gus Sinnis, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Jim Hinton, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Tomás Capistrán, Hazal Goksu, Gaurang Yodh, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Brian Humensky, Jorge Cotzomi, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Michelle Hui, Elijah Willox, César Alvarez, Jose Luis García-Luna, Ignacio Taboada, José Serna-Franco, Ruben Alfaro, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Jason Lee, J. T. Linnemann, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Michael Schneider, Luis Villaseñor, Felix Werner, Ahron S. Barber, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, John Matthews, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Oscar Martinez, Wayne Robert Springer, Amid Nayerhoda, James Ryan, Binita Hona, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Alejandro Lara, Michael DuVernois, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, William H. Lee, Julie McEnery, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Chang Dong Rho, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, J. Patrick Harding, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, and HAWC Collaboration
Subjects: HAWC - Abteilung Hinton, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Muon, Artificial neural network, Computer science, business.industry, Track (disk drive), Computer Science::Neural and Evolutionary Computation, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Identification (information), Computer vision, Artificial intelligence, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Abstract: Nowadays the implementation of artificial neural networks in high-energy physics has obtained excellent results on improving signal detection. In this work we propose to use neural networks (NNs) for event discrimination in HAWC. This observatory is a water Cherenkov gamma-ray detector that in recent years has implemented algorithms to identify horizontal muon tracks. However, these algorithms are not very efficient. In this work we describe the implementation of three NNs: two based on image classification and one based on object detection. Using these algorithms we obtain an increase in the number of identified tracks. The results of this study could be used in the future to improve the performance of the Earth-skimming technique for the indirect measurement of neutrinos with HAWC., Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021)
Published: 2022

7. Origin of the very high energy gamma-ray emission from pulsar wind nebulae

Author: Gwenael Giacinti, Brian Reville, and John G. Kirk
Subjects: Physics, High energy, Pulsar, Gamma ray, Astrophysics
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Published: 2022

8. TeV Emission of Galactic Plane Sources with HAWC and H.E.S.S

Author: Nicola Omodei, Sebastian Panny, A. Sandoval, Q. Piel, S. Raab, Arturo Iriarte, Kirsty Feijen, R. D. Parsons, Michael Newbold, J. Zorn, Michael Schneider, Fernando Garfias, D. Huber, Christo Venter, Jacek Niemiec, Arnaud Mares, Frank M. Rieger, Thomas Weisgarber, A. Dmytriiev, Olaf Reimer, A. Zech, E. Ruiz-Velasco, Thomas Bylund, Y. A. Gallant, David Sánchez, R. López-Coto, Jorge Cotzomi, Jacques Muller, H. León Vargas, Alison Peisker, Justine Devin, Thomas Murach, P. Morris, Harm Schoorlemmer, Jonathan Mackey, Andrea Albert, Samuel Zouari, Pascal Vincent, M. Zacharias, Stefan Ohm, S. Pita, Tadayuki Takahashi, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, A. Yusafzai, Andreas Quirrenbach, Samuel Timothy Spencer, Stefano Gabici, Regis Terrier, Victor Doroshenko, L. Nellen, Włodek Kluźniak, R. Noriega-Papaqui, E. Kasai, C. Moore, L. Oakes, J. Bolmont, Michal Ostrowski, J.-P. Lenain, Pooja Surajbali, William H. Lee, L. Olivera-Nieto, E. Moulin, Tomasz Bulik, Rhiannon Turner, Lente Dreyer, O. Martinez, Stefan Klepser, Alessandro Montanari, D. J. van der Walt, Fernando Ureña-Mena, J. P. Harding, César Alvarez, Michael DuVernois, A.M. Taylor, J. C. Arteaga-Velézquez, Connor Duffy, Davit Zargaryan, R. J. White, Stefan Funk, Alicja Wierzcholska, Dmitriy Kostunin, J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye, R. Rauth, Maria Magdalena González, Kristi Engel, A. Galván-Gámez, Christoph Deil, Krzysztof Katarzynski, F. Eichhorn, Mohanraj Senniappan, E. Moreno, Michael Punch, Axel Donath, B. Hona, A. W. Chen, S. Steinmassl, Sami Caroff, Domenico Tiziani, D. Malyshev, Catherine Boisson, M. Panter, Mora Durocher, U. Katz, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, C. Arcaro, H. Zhou, Michael Backes, S. Coutiño de León, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, M. de Bony de Lavergne, R. Brose, Petra Hüntemeyer, C. Levy, Francois Brun, R. J. Tuffs, B. Bi, Andreas Specovius, Joachim Hahn, K. P. Arunbabu, Riaan Steenkamp, Gavin Rowell, P. Reichherzer, James E. M. Watson, M. Bryan, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Łukasz Stawarz, C. van Rensburg, Pierre Brun, Brenda Dingus, V. Marandon, J. A. Morales-Soto, M. Büchele, H. Prokoph, C. De León, A. Marcowith, V. Baghmanyan, J. Schäfer, Nu. Komin, Tim Holch, Q. Remy, H. M. Schutte, Isak Delberth Davids, A. Fiasson, Jean-Pierre Ernenwein, Hassan Abdalla, S. Hernandez, Jim Hinton, V. Sahakian, E. De la Fuente, F. Werner, Mischa Breuhaus, Luis Villaseñor, Yu Wun Wong, Hambeleleni Ndiyavala, D. Avila Rojas, G. Lamanna, K. S. Caballero-Mora, Roberta Zanin, G. Emery, Halim Ashkar, Fabian Leuschner, Heiko Salzmann, A. S. Seyffert, Kwok Lung Fan, M. Hörbe, T. Tavernier, Nissim Illich Fraija, P. T. O'Brien, Johannes Veh, S. Sailer, Dmitry Khangulyan, Gilles Maurin, S. J. Fegan, A. Djannati-Ataï, D. Jankowsky, J. Dyks, Celine Armand, M. Füßling, R. Marx, Dieter Horns, M. Tluczykont, F. Ait Benkhali, J. F. Glicenstein, M. U. Nisa, Marek Jamrozy, Clemens Hoischen, A. A. Zdziarski, A. Jardin-Blicq, E. O. Angüner, R. Diaz Hernandez, N. Shafi, Natalia Żywucka, M. de Naurois, Andrea Santangelo, K. Malone, Gwenael Giacinti, L. Sun, M.-H. Grondin, D. Garcia, M. Seglar-Arroyo, B. Khélifi, A. J. Smith, T. Capistrán, B. van Soelen, G. Hermann, Anna Barnacka, D. Gottschall, Anne Lemiere, B. Rudak, Markus Böttcher, K. Tollefson, Jhilik Majumdar, Helene Sol, T. Chand, C. Brisbois, Andreas Zmija, Tom Armstrong, Elijah Willox, Carlo Romoli, Alison Mitchell, R. Torres-Escobedo, Atreyee Sinha, Manuel Meyer, I. Martinez-Castellanos, Zorawar Wadiasingh, A. Priyana Noel, V. Barbosa Martins, C. van Eldik, M. Lemoine-Goumard, M. Tsirou, Michael Kreter, Anna Lia Longinotti, F. Schüssler, Dezhi Huang, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Werner Hofmann, Monica Barnard, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, V. Poireau, Jimmy N.S. Shapopi, K. Nakashima, José Serna-Franco, G. Peron, Garret Cotter, Jacco Vink, A. Carraminana, Umberto Cotti, Jim Davies, M. A. Kastendieck, Thomas Lohse, K. Kosack, Paolo Marchegiani, Konrad Bernlöhr, Heinrich J. Völk, Sabrina Casanova, Catalina Espinoza, M. Renaud, D. Berge, G. Vasileiadis, F. Salesa Greus, I. Jung-Richardt, Kleopas Shiningayamwe, Gilles Fontaine, J. T. Linnemann, Lenka Tomankova, M. Mostafá, G. Fichet de Clairfontaine, R. Konno, Gianluca Giavitto, V. Joshi, B. Peyaud, G. Pühlhofer, J. A. Goodman, H. Odaka, A. Reimer, R. W. Ellsworth, R. W. Springer, M. Curyło, F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, Y. Pérez Araujo, A. Nayerhoda, Christian Stegmann, Stefan Wagner, Yasunobu Uchiyama, David Kieda, L. Mohrmann, Misao Sasaki, Markus Holler, Felix Jankowsky, Felix Aharonian, D. Glawion, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Segev BenZvi, Constantin Steppa, L. Giunti, D. A. Prokhorov, Ullrich Schwanke, L. Rinchiuso, J. A. Matthews, Ibrahim Torres, Rachel Simoni, A. Carosi, K. Egberts, S. Chandra, Ruben Alfaro, Sabrina Einecke, Iryna Lypova, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Yvonne Becherini, M. Fernández Alonso, L. Dirson, G. Martí-Devesa, C. Trichard, Sylvia Zhu, P. J. Meintjes, J. H. E. Thiersen, Marion Spir-Jacob, Maria Haupt, C. D. Rho, Rafal Moderski, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics Amsterdam, High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collaboration, H.E.S.S., and Collaboration, HAWC
Subjects: High-energy astronomy, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, IACT, Field of view, 030226 pharmacology & pharmacy, 01 natural sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Stereoscopic System, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Cherenkov radiation, media_common, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galactic plane, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], High energy astrophysics
Abstract: International audience; The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) are two leading instruments in the ground-based very-high-energy γ-ray domain. HAWC employs the water Cherenkov detection (WCD) technique, while H.E.S.S. is an array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). The two facilities therefore differ in multiple aspects, including their observation strategy, the size of their field of view, and their angular resolution, leading to different analysis approaches. Until now, it has been unclear if the results of observations by both types of instruments are consistent: several of the recently discovered HAWC sources have been followed up by IACTs, resulting in a confirmed detection only in a minority of cases. With this paper, we go further and try to resolve the tensions between previous results by performing a new analysis of the H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey data, applying an analysis technique comparable between H.E.S.S. and HAWC. Events above 1 TeV are selected for both data sets, the point-spread function of H.E.S.S. is broadened to approach that of HAWC, and a similar background estimation method is used. This is the first detailed comparison of the Galactic plane observed by both instruments. H.E.S.S. can confirm the γ-ray emission of four HAWC sources among seven previously undetected by IACTs, while the three others have measured fluxes below the sensitivity of the H.E.S.S. data set. Remaining differences in the overall γ-ray flux can be explained by the systematic uncertainties. Therefore, we confirm a consistent view of the γ-ray sky between WCD and IACT techniques.
Published: 2021
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9. Limits on Diffuse Dark Matter with HAWC

Author: Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Fernando Garfias, Thomas Weisgarber, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Nicola Omodei, Ian Herzog, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, Arturo Iriarte, Segev BenZvi, Luis Villaseñor, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, William H. Lee, James Ryan, Samridha Kunwar, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Wayne Robert Springer, Hannah Jhee, Julie McEnery, Chang Dong Rho, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Arnulfo Zepeda, Hazal Goksu, Jorge Cotzomi, Nissim Illich Fraija, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Ignacio Taboada, Brian Fick, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Mora Durocher, J. A. Goodman, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Lorenzo Diaz, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Ruben Alfaro, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Jim Hinton, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Jason Fan, Petra Hüntemeyer, Jason Lee, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Elijah Willox, Rishi Babu, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Kelly Malone, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Mehr Nisa, Ian James Watson, Gerd J. Kunde, Maria Magdalena González, Hermes Leon Vargas, David Kieda, Eduardo de la Fuente, Michael Schneider, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Amid Nayerhoda, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, John Matthews, Lukas Nellen, Jose Luis García-Luna, Miguel Mostafa, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Felix Werner, Hao Zhou, Cederik León de León, Robert Ellsworth, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Binita Hona, Umberto Cotti, Sabrina Casanova, Oscar Martinez, Brian Humensky, Francisco Salesa Greus, Ke Fang, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Tomás Capistrán, Joshua Wood, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Gus Sinnis, Alison Peisker, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Andrew James Smith, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Gaurang Yodh, Henrike Fleischhack, Kristi Engel, Andrea Albert, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Ahron S. Barber, Meghan Tanner, Colas Rivière, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Rhiannon Turner, Chad Brisbois, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, César Alvarez, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Vikas Joshi, Alejandro Lara, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Michael DuVernois, Kirsten Tollefson, Harm Schoorlemmer, David Berley, Michael Newbold, Hawc, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Xiaojie Wang, Joe Lundeen, Michelle Hui, J. Patrick Harding, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Dirk Lennarz, Gwenael Giacinti, José Serna-Franco, J. T. Linnemann, Brenda Dingus, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, and Dezhi Huang
Subjects: Physics, Dark matter, Astrophysics
Published: 2021
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10. Limits on the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background with HAWC

Author: Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Gerd J. Kunde, Jim Hinton, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Meghan Tanner, Colas Rivière, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Dirk Lennarz, José Serna-Franco, Elijah Willox, Harm Schoorlemmer, Samridha Kunwar, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Segev BenZvi, J. T. Linnemann, Dezhi Huang, Vikas Joshi, Hannah Jhee, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Hawc, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, David Berley, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Xiaojie Wang, Guillermo García-Torales, Joe Lundeen, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Kirsten Tollefson, Rhiannon Turner, Nissim Illich Fraija, Chad Brisbois, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Brenda Dingus, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Ke Fang, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, Alejandro Lara, Ahron S. Barber, Fernando Garfias, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Michael Schneider, Felix Werner, Ian Herzog, William H. Lee, Jason Fan, Julie McEnery, Miguel Mostafa, Rishi Babu, Kelly Malone, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Michael DuVernois, Ignacio Taboada, Cederik León de León, Gwenael Giacinti, Chang Dong Rho, Michael Newbold, Thomas Weisgarber, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Michelle Hui, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, J. A. Goodman, Ruben Alfaro, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Robert Ellsworth, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Alison Peisker, Andrew James Smith, César Alvarez, Mehr Nisa, Ian James Watson, Jason Lee, Arnulfo Zepeda, Hazal Goksu, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Henrike Fleischhack, Umberto Cotti, Brian Fick, Lorenzo Diaz, David Kieda, Francisco Salesa Greus, Sabrina Casanova, Maria Magdalena González, Joshua Wood, Eduardo de la Fuente, Kristi Engel, Jorge Cotzomi, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Hermes Leon Vargas, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Tomás Capistrán, John Matthews, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Oscar Martinez, Jose Luis García-Luna, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, James Ryan, Wayne Robert Springer, Amid Nayerhoda, Brian Humensky, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Gus Sinnis, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Gaurang Yodh, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, Binita Hona, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Luis Villaseñor, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, J. Patrick Harding, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Nicola Omodei, Arturo Iriarte, Lukas Nellen, Hao Zhou, and Andrea Albert
Subjects: Physics, Gamma ray, Astrophysics
Published: 2021
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11. CONSTRAINTS ON THE VERY HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY EMISSION WITH HAWC

Author: Yunior Frainen Pérez, Maria Magdalena González, Nissim Illich Fraija, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Andrea Albert, Ruben Alfaro, César Alvarez, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Rishi Babu, Vardan Baghmanyan, Ahron S. Barber, Josefa Becerra González, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Segev BenZvi, David Berley, Chad Brisbois, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Tomás Capistrán Rojas, Alberto Carramiñana, Sabrina Casanova, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Umberto Cotti, Jorge Cotzomi, Sara Coutiño de León, Eduardo de la Fuente, Cederik León de León, Lorenzo Diaz, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Brenda Dingus, Mora Durocher, Michael DuVernois, Robert Ellsworth, Kristi Engel, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jason Fan, Ke Fang, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Brian Fick, Henrike Fleischhack, Jorge Luis Flores, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Jose Luis García-Luna, Guillermo García-Torales, Fernando Garfias, Gwenael Giacinti, Hazal Goksu, Jordan A. Goodman, J. Patrick Harding, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Ian Herzog, Jim Hinton, Binita Hona, Dezhi Huang, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Michelle Hui, Brian Humensky, Petra Hüntemeyer, Arturo Iriarte, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Hannah Jhee, Vikas Joshi, David Kieda, Gerd J. Kunde, Samridha Kunwar, Alejandro Lara, Jason LEE, William H. Lee, Dirk Lennarz, Hermes Leon Vargas, Jim Linnemann, Anna Lia Longinotti, Rubén López-Coto, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Joe Lundeen, Kelly Malone, Vincent Marandon, Oscar M Martinez, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Jesús Martínez-Castro, John Matthews, Julie McEnery, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Miguel Mostafa, Amid Nayerhoda, Lukas Nellen, Michael Newbold, Mehr Un Nisa, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Nicola Omodei, Alison Peisker, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Chang Dong Rho, Colas Rivière, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, James Ryan, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Francisco Salesa Greus, Andrés Sandoval, Michael Schneider, Harm Schoorlemmer, José Serna-Franco, Gus Sinnis, Andrew James Smith, Wayne Robert Springer, Pooja Surajbali, Ignacio Taboada, Meghan Tanner, Kirsten Tollefson, Ibrahim Torres, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Rhiannon M. Turner, Fernando Josue Urena Mena, Luis Villaseñor, Xiaojie Wang, Ian James Watson, Thomas Weisgarber, Felix Werner, Elijah Job Willox, Joshua Wood, Gaurang Yodh, Arnulfo Zepeda, and Hao Zhou
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, High energy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Phase (waves), FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Parameter space, Light curve, Synchrotron, law.invention, Afterglow, law, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most luminous sources in the universe. The nature of their emission at TeV energies is one of the most relevant open issues related to these events. The temporal and spectral features inferred from the early and late emissions usually known as prompt and afterglow, respectively, can be interpreted within the context of the fireball model. The synchrotron self-Compton process is expected during the afterglow phase. We explain how the theoretical SSC light curves can be compared with hypothetical upper limit located at z=0.3. We show the allowed parameter space of the microphysical parameters and density of the circumburst medium. The most restrictive results are obtained when the SSC process lies in the fast cooling regime, Comment: Presented at the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference(ICRC2021),Berlin, Germany-online
Published: 2021
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12. Monitoring the radio galaxy M87 with HAWC

Author: Tomás Capistrán, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Maria Magdalena González, Nissim Illich Fraija, Ruben Alfaro, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Andrea Albert, César Alvarez, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Rishi Babu, Vardan Baghmanyan, Ahron S. Barber, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Segev BenZvi, David Berley, Chad Brisbois, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Alberto Carramiñana, Sabrina Casanova, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Umberto Cotti, Jorge Cotzomi, Sara Coutiño de León, Eduardo de la Fuente, Cederik León de León, Lorenzo Diaz, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Brenda Dingus, Mora Durocher, Michael DuVernois, Robert Ellsworth, Kristi Engel, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jason Fan, Ke Fang, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Brian Fick, Henrike Fleischhack, Jorge Luis Flores, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Jose Luis García-Luna, Guillermo García-Torales, Fernando Garfias, Gwenael Giacinti, Hazal Goksu, Jordan A. Goodman, J. Patrick Harding, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Ian Herzog, Jim Hinton, Binita Hona, Dezhi Huang, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Michelle Hui, Brian Humensky, Petra Hüntemeyer, Arturo Iriarte, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Hannah Jhee, Vikas Joshi, David Kieda, Gerd J. Kunde, Samridha Kunwar, Alejandro Lara, Jason LEE, William H. Lee, Dirk Lennarz, Hermes Leon Vargas, Jim Linnemann, Anna Lia Longinotti, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Joe Lundeen, Kelly Malone, Vincent Marandon, Oscar M Martinez, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Jesús Martínez-Castro, John Matthews, Julie McEnery, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Miguel Mostafa, Amid Nayerhoda, Lukas Nellen, Michael Newbold, Mehr Un Nisa, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Nicola Omodei, Alison Peisker, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Chang Dong Rho, Colas Rivière, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, James Ryan, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Francisco Salesa Greus, Andrés Sandoval, Michael Schneider, Harm Schoorlemmer, José Serna-Franco, Gus Sinnis, Andrew James Smith, Wayne Robert Springer, Pooja Surajbali, Ignacio Taboada, Meghan Tanner, Kirsten Tollefson, Ibrahim Torres, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Rhiannon M. Turner, Fernando Josue Urena Mena, Luis Villaseñor, Xiaojie Wang, Ian James Watson, Thomas Weisgarber, Felix Werner, Elijah Job Willox, Joshua Wood, Gaurang Yodh, Arnulfo Zepeda, and Hao Zhou
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Radio galaxy, Low activity, Radiative transfer, Northern Hemisphere, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Field of view, MAGIC (telescope), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Studies of radio galaxies at TeV energies are fascinating because their jets are misaligned concerning our sightline. Thus, it provides us with a unique opportunity to study the structure of their jets, the radiative processes, and the acceleration mechanisms involved in them. In addition, some radio galaxies have presented variability in their emission, like the giant radio galaxy M87, which has reported several activity periods. Due to its duty cycle >95% and instantaneous field of view of 2 sr, HAWC provides daily monitoring of variable sources visible from the Northern Hemisphere. In this work, we show the results of monitoring M87 between January 2015 and December 2018. HAWC's observations are consistent with the low activity state reported by other instruments (like H.E.S.S and MAGIC). However, after September 2017 (~MJD 58000), the HAWC measurements of M87 show hints of higher activity., Presented at the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021), Berlin, Germany - Online
Published: 2021
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13. PeV Cosmic Ray Acceleration in the Supernova Post Breakout Expansion Phase: Kinetic-magnetohydrodynamic Simulations

Author: Tsuyoshi Inoue, Shogo Nishino, Gwenael Giacinti, Allard Jan van Marle, Alexandre Marcowith, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)
Subjects: Physics, Breakout, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, diffusion, blast wave, magnetic field, Cosmic ray, Expansion phase, Astrophysics, stability, Kinetic energy, 7. Clean energy, hydrodynamics: magnetic, Acceleration, Supernova, 13. Climate action, supernova, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Magnetohydrodynamic drive, cosmic radiation: acceleration, numerical calculations, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: International audience; Origin of cosmic rays (CRs) is still not known. In this work we argue that PeV cosmic rays can be accelerated during the early phase of a supernova blast wave expansion in dense red supergiant winds. We solve in spherical geometry a system combining a diffusive-convection equation which treats CR dynamics coupled to magnetohydrodynamics to follow gas dynamics. The fast shock expanding in a dense ionized wind is able to trigger the fast non-resonant streaming instability over day timescales. We investigate the maximum energy CRs can reach in this configuration accounting for pp losses. Multi-PeV energies can be reached if the progenitor mass loss rates are of the order of, or larger than, 10^-3 solar masses/year. It has been recently invoked that prior to the explosion hydrogen rich massive stars can produce enhanced mass loss rates. These enhanced rates would then favor the production of a Pevatron phase in early times after the shock breakout. We discuss observational tests to probe our model using future radio and gamma-ray facilities.
Published: 2021
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14. Convolutional Neural Networks for Low Energy Gamma-Ray Air Shower Identification with HAWC

Author: Gwenael Giacinti, Dezhi Huang, José Serna-Franco, J. T. Linnemann, Vikas Joshi, Hawc, Brenda Dingus, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Rishi Babu, Gerd J. Kunde, Kelly Malone, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, Dirk Lennarz, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, William H. Lee, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Joe Lundeen, Michael Schneider, Julie McEnery, Felix Werner, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Chang Dong Rho, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Kirsten Tollefson, Harm Schoorlemmer, Brian Humensky, Ke Fang, David Kieda, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Nicola Omodei, Arturo Iriarte, Segev BenZvi, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Ahron S. Barber, Arnulfo Zepeda, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, David Berley, Brian Fick, Mehr Nisa, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Ian James Watson, J. A. Goodman, Robert Ellsworth, Lorenzo Diaz, Xiaojie Wang, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Andrea Albert, Alison Peisker, Andrew James Smith, Hannah Jhee, Umberto Cotti, Binita Hona, Jim Hinton, Sergio Hernández Cadena, John Matthews, Sabrina Casanova, Miguel Mostafa, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Fernando Garfias, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Cederik León de León, Henrike Fleischhack, Meghan Tanner, Thomas Weisgarber, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Oscar Martinez, César Alvarez, Jorge Cotzomi, Hermes Leon Vargas, Elijah Willox, Colas Rivière, Nissim Illich Fraija, Alejandro Lara, Luis Villaseñor, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Michael Newbold, Hazal Goksu, James Ryan, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Michael DuVernois, Francisco Salesa Greus, Joshua Wood, Jose Luis García-Luna, Jason Fan, Rhiannon Turner, Chad Brisbois, Lukas Nellen, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Kristi Engel, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Hao Zhou, Gus Sinnis, Michelle Hui, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Gaurang Yodh, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Samridha Kunwar, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Maria Magdalena González, Ignacio Taboada, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Ruben Alfaro, Jason Lee, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Eduardo de la Fuente, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, J. Patrick Harding, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Ian Herzog, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Wayne Robert Springer, Ian Watson, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Tomás Capistrán, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, and Amid Nayerhoda
Subjects: Physics, Identification (information), Air shower, Low energy, business.industry, Gamma ray, Pattern recognition, Artificial intelligence, business, Convolutional neural network
Published: 2021
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15. HAWC results on TeV emitting blazars

Author: Luis Villaseñor, Alejandro Lara, Brian Humensky, Tomás Capistrán Rojas, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, John Matthews, Gerd J. Kunde, Hannah Jhee, José Serna-Franco, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Maria Magdalena González, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Michael DuVernois, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Nissim Illich Fraija, Fernando Garfias, Rishi Babu, Kelly Malone, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Thomas Weisgarber, Ke Fang, Alison Peisker, Oscar Martinez, J. T. Linnemann, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Michael Schneider, Felix Werner, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Andrew James Smith, Jason Fan, Eduardo de la Fuente, Andrea Albert, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Binita Hona, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Gus Sinnis, J. Patrick Harding, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Michelle Hui, Henrike Fleischhack, Hermes Leon Vargas, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Miguel Mostafa, Meghan Tanner, Gaurang Yodh, Ignacio Taboada, Colas Rivière, Cederik León de León, James Ryan, Lukas Nellen, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Mora Durocher, Ahron S. Barber, César Alvarez, Arnulfo Zepeda, Brian Fick, Ruben Alfaro, Petra Hüntemeyer, Vikas Joshi, Hao Zhou, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Lorenzo Diaz, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, David Kieda, Samridha Kunwar, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Brenda Dingus, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Jason Lee, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Dirk Lennarz, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Jorge Cotzomi, William H. Lee, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Julie McEnery, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Segev BenZvi, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Nicola Omodei, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Chang Dong Rho, Kirsten Tollefson, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Arturo Iriarte, Ian Herzog, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Francisco Salesa Greus, Joshua Wood, Hawc, Gwenael Giacinti, Michael Newbold, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Joe Lundeen, Alberto Carramiñana Alonso, Jose Luis García-Luna, Robert Ellsworth, Rhiannon Turner, Harm Schoorlemmer, Chad Brisbois, Umberto Cotti, Mehr Nisa, Sabrina Casanova, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Ian James Watson, Kristi Engel, David Berley, Xiaojie Wang, Hazal Goksu, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Dezhi Huang, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, J. A. Goodman, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Jim Hinton, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Elijah Willox, Wayne Robert Springer, and Amid Nayerhoda
Subjects: Astrophysics, Blazar
Published: 2021
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16. Studying High-Mass Microquasars with HAWC

Author: Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Fernando Garfias, Thomas Weisgarber, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Se Yeon Hwang, Brian Humensky, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Hazal Goksu, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Dirk Lennarz, Francisco Salesa Greus, Andrea Albert, Joshua Wood, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Meghan Tanner, Colas Rivière, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Gus Sinnis, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Gaurang Yodh, J. Patrick Harding, Rhiannon Turner, Maria Magdalena González, Arnulfo Zepeda, Brian Fick, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Brenda Dingus, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Chad Brisbois, Lorenzo Diaz, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Kristi Engel, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Hannah Jhee, Gwenael Giacinti, Vikas Joshi, Eduardo de la Fuente, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Michael Schneider, Felix Werner, José Serna-Franco, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Ke Fang, Wayne Robert Springer, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Nissim Illich Fraija, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Samridha Kunwar, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Israel Martinez Castellanos, J. T. Linnemann, Kirsten Tollefson, Youngwan Son, Ignacio Taboada, Ruben Alfaro, Luis Villaseñor, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Alejandro Lara, Jorge Cotzomi, Ian Herzog, Amid Nayerhoda, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Jason Lee, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Michael Newbold, Ahron S. Barber, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Jose Luis García-Luna, Michael DuVernois, Jason Fan, Hermes Leon Vargas, Robert Ellsworth, Michelle Hui, Umberto Cotti, Harm Schoorlemmer, Sabrina Casanova, Alison Peisker, Andrew James Smith, Rishi Babu, Kelly Malone, John Matthews, Henrike Fleischhack, David Berley, Xiaojie Wang, Oscar Martinez, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, David Kieda, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, William H. Lee, Julie McEnery, Chang Dong Rho, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Mehr Nisa, Ian James Watson, Dezhi Huang, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Jim Hinton, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Elijah Willox, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, J. A. Goodman, James Ryan, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Binita Hona, Lukas Nellen, Hao Zhou, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Nicola Omodei, Arturo Iriarte, César Alvarez, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Tomás Capistrán, Hawc, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Joe Lundeen, Miguel Mostafa, Cederik León de León, Segev BenZvi, and Gerd J. Kunde
Subjects: Physics, High mass, Astrophysics
Published: 2021
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17. Modeling the non-flaring VHE emission from M87 as detected by the HAWC gamma ray observatory

Author: Dirk Lennarz, Segev BenZvi, Ian Herzog, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Francisco Salesa Greus, Joshua Wood, Andrea Albert, Hazal Goksu, Fernando Garfias, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Samridha Kunwar, Brian Humensky, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Thomas Weisgarber, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Ke Fang, Arnulfo Zepeda, Nicola Omodei, Hannah Jhee, Tomás Capistrán Rojas, James Ryan, Kristi Engel, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Brian Fick, Lorenzo Diaz, Arturo Iriarte, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Gerd J. Kunde, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Mehr Nisa, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Ian James Watson, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Robert Ellsworth, Nissim Illich Fraija, Maria Magdalena González, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, J. A. Goodman, Eduardo de la Fuente, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Gus Sinnis, J. Patrick Harding, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Umberto Cotti, Jason Fan, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Meghan Tanner, Jim Hinton, Alison Peisker, Andrew James Smith, Sabrina Casanova, Brenda Dingus, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Colas Rivière, Ignacio Taboada, Henrike Fleischhack, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Jorge Cotzomi, Ruben Alfaro, Gaurang Yodh, Elijah Willox, David Kieda, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, William H. Lee, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Julie McEnery, Ahron S. Barber, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Jason Lee, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Lukas Nellen, Rishi Babu, Kelly Malone, Hao Zhou, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Gwenael Giacinti, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Jose Luis García-Luna, Chang Dong Rho, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Binita Hona, José Serna-Franco, Hermes Leon Vargas, Luis Villaseñor, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Michael Schneider, Fernando Ureña Mena, Felix Werner, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, John Matthews, Miguel Mostafa, Cederik León de León, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, J. T. Linnemann, Oscar Martinez, Wayne Robert Springer, Amid Nayerhoda, Rhiannon Turner, Chad Brisbois, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Harm Schoorlemmer, David Berley, Xiaojie Wang, Alejandro Lara, Michael DuVernois, Hawc, Vikas Joshi, Joe Lundeen, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Kirsten Tollefson, César Alvarez, Michael Newbold, Michelle Hui, and Dezhi Huang
Subjects: Physics, Radio galaxy, Observatory, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Broadband, Gamma ray, Spectral energy distribution, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Blazar, Virgo Cluster, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract: M87 is a giant radio galaxy located in the Virgo Cluster, known to be a very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray source. As radio galaxies are considered the misaligned low-redshift counterparts of blazars, they are excellent laboratories for testing AGN emission models. M87 has been detected and monitored by Fermi-LAT and several atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Recently, the HAWC Collaboration presented marginal evidence of 4.5 year TeV gamma-ray emission from this object. The HAWC data has the potential to constrain the average VHE emission of sources of complex behavior, like M87, for which the physical origin of the VHE gamma-ray emission is still uncertain. We fitted a lepto-hadronic scenario to the broadband spectral energy distribution of M87 to model its non-flaring VHE emission using HAWC data.
Published: 2021
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18. Study of the eHWC J1825-134 at the Highest Energy with HWAC

Author: James Ryan, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Hannah Jhee, Dirk Lennarz, Maria Magdalena González, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Michael Newbold, Tomás Capistrán, Hazal Goksu, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Alejandro Lara, Nissim Illich Fraija, Laura Olivera-Nieto, J. Patrick Harding, Brian Humensky, Eduardo de la Fuente, Miguel Mostafa, Ahron S. Barber, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Ignacio Taboada, Hawc, Michael DuVernois, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Cederik León de León, Fernando Garfias, Hermes Leon Vargas, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Ruben Alfaro, Andrea Albert, Jason Fan, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Joe Lundeen, Thomas Weisgarber, Ian Herzog, Jason Lee, Vikas Joshi, Alison Peisker, Harm Schoorlemmer, Andrew James Smith, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Jorge Cotzomi, Henrike Fleischhack, Meghan Tanner, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Francisco Salesa Greus, Colas Rivière, Lukas Nellen, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Segev BenZvi, Michelle Hui, Gus Sinnis, Joshua Wood, Fernando Ureña-Mena, David Berley, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Gaurang Yodh, J. A. Goodman, Hao Zhou, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Dezhi Huang, Xiaojie Wang, Guillermo García-Torales, Kristi Engel, David Kieda, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Rishi Babu, César Alvarez, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Kelly Malone, Gwenael Giacinti, Luis Villaseñor, Binita Hona, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Michael Schneider, Kirsten Tollefson, Felix Werner, Samridha Kunwar, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Nicola Omodei, José Serna-Franco, Gerd J. Kunde, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Arturo Iriarte, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Jim Hinton, Wayne Robert Springer, John Matthews, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Jose Luis García-Luna, Arnulfo Zepeda, Oscar Martinez, Rhiannon Turner, Brian Fick, Robert Ellsworth, Lorenzo Diaz, Elijah Willox, J. T. Linnemann, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Chad Brisbois, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Umberto Cotti, Sabrina Casanova, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Amid Nayerhoda, Ke Fang, Brenda Dingus, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, William H. Lee, Julie McEnery, Chang Dong Rho, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Mehr Nisa, and Ian James Watson
Subjects: Physics, Observatory, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Molecular cloud, Hadron, Cutoff, Spectral energy distribution, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Effects of high altitude on humans, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract: eHWC J1825-134 is one of the brightest Galactic 𝛾-ray sources above 50 TeV observed by High Altitude Water Cherenkov 𝛾-Ray Observatory (HAWC). Detailed morphological studies have revealed a new point-like source inside this region with a spectral energy distribution extending beyond 200 TeV without any cutoff. These very-high-energy 𝛾 rays emission can originate from leptonic or hadronic processes. The new point-like source is located in a region containing PWNe and a high-density giant molecular cloud [MML2017]99. If the source emission is associated with the hadronic scenario the TeV 𝛾 rays may have been produced by cosmic rays colliding with ambient gas. If this were the case, eHWC J1825-134 is an indicator of the existence of a galactic PeVatron in the region that accelerates particles up to PeV energies.
Published: 2021
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19. A GeV to TeV view of shell-type SNRs

Author: Miguel Mostafa, Cederik León de León, Brian Humensky, Gerd J. Kunde, Segev BenZvi, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, José Serna-Franco, Vikas Joshi, Ian Herzog, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Hazal Goksu, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Wayne Robert Springer, Binita Hona, Michelle Hui, Hawc, Jorge Cotzomi, Joshua A. Wood, Ahron S. Barber, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, James Ryan, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Rishi Babu, Joe Lundeen, J. T. Linnemann, Kelly Malone, Mehr Nisa, D. Berley, Dirk Lennarz, Kirsten Tollefson, Amid Nayerhoda, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Alison Peisker, Samridha Kunwar, Ian James Watson, Michael Schneider, Andrew James Smith, Felix Werner, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Gwenael Giacinti, Henrike Fleischhack, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, David Kieda, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Tomás Capistrán, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Hermes Leon Vargas, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Fernando Garfias, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Arnulfo Zepeda, Hannah Jhee, César Alvarez, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Brian Fick, Thomas Weisgarber, Lorenzo Diaz, Jose Luis García-Luna, Nissim Illich Fraija, Andrea Albert, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Jim Hinton, Harm Schoorlemmer, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Gus Sinnis, Michael Newbold, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Brenda Dingus, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, J. Patrick Harding, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Jason Fan, Meghan Tanner, Elijah Willox, Colas Rivière, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Ruben Lopez-Coto, G. B. Yodh, Dezhi Huang, Xiaojie Wang, Ke Fang, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Luis Villaseñor, Maria Magdalena González, Alejandro Lara, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Robert Ellsworth, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, Nicola Omodei, Eduardo de la Fuente, Umberto Cotti, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Sabrina Casanova, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Rhiannon Turner, J. A. Goodman, William H. Lee, Chad Brisbois, Michael DuVernois, Arturo Iriarte, Julie McEnery, John Matthews, Chang Dong Rho, Oscar Martinez, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Francisco Salesa Greus, Kristi Engel, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Lukas Nellen, Hao Zhou, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Ignacio Taboada, Ruben Alfaro, Jason Lee, and Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez
Subjects: Physics, Shell (structure), Astrophysics, Type (model theory)
Published: 2021
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20. Follow-up Analysis to Geminga's contribution to the Local Positron Excess with HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory

Author: Alison Peisker, Andrew James Smith, Henrike Fleischhack, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Jorge Cotzomi, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Ian Herzog, Segev BenZvi, James Ryan, Hannah Jhee, J. Patrick Harding, Rishi Babu, Kelly Malone, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Andrea Albert, Mattia Di Mauro, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Jose Luis García-Luna, Hawc, J. A. Goodman, Nicola Omodei, Samridha Kunwar, Fernando Garfias, Brenda Dingus, Michael Newbold, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Robert Ellsworth, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Michael Schneider, Gus Sinnis, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Nissim Illich Fraija, Arturo Iriarte, Joe Lundeen, Felix Werner, Anna Lia Longinotti, Meghan Tanner, Thomas Weisgarber, Colas Rivière, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Dezhi Huang, Binita Hona, Brian Humensky, Tomás Capistrán Rojas, Umberto Cotti, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Gaurang Yodh, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, Maria Magdalena González, César Alvarez, Gwenael Giacinti, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, William H. Lee, Sabrina Casanova, Gerd J. Kunde, Julie McEnery, Jason Fan, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Chang Dong Rho, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Vikas Joshi, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Eduardo de la Fuente, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, José Serna-Franco, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Mehr Nisa, Ian James Watson, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Lukas Nellen, Hazal Goksu, Hao Zhou, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, J. T. Linnemann, Arnulfo Zepeda, Wayne Robert Springer, Mora Durocher, Luis Villaseñor, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Kirsten Tollefson, Brian Fick, Lorenzo Diaz, Petra Hüntemeyer, David Kieda, Ke Fang, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Jim Hinton, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Miguel Mostafa, Cederik León de León, Amid Nayerhoda, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Ahron S. Barber, Elijah Willox, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Rhiannon Turner, Chad Brisbois, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Francisco Salesa Greus, Joshua Wood, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Hermes Leon Vargas, Kristi Engel, John Matthews, Alejandro Lara, Dirk Lennarz, Oscar Martinez, Michael DuVernois, Ignacio Taboada, Ruben Alfaro, Michelle Hui, Harm Schoorlemmer, Jason Lee, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, David Berley, and Xiaojie Wang
Subjects: Physics, Positron, Observatory, Gamma ray, Astrophysics
Published: 2021
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21. Galactic Cosmic Ray increase associated to an interplanetary magnetic cloud observed by HAWC

Author: María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Tomás Capistrán, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Andrea Albert, Harm Schoorlemmer, Dirk Lennarz, Francisco Salesa Greus, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Brian Humensky, David Berley, Laura Olivera-Nieto, J. Patrick Harding, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Meghan Tanner, Hannah Jhee, Joshua Wood, Colas Rivière, Xiaojie Wang, Brenda Dingus, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Mora Durocher, Rishi Babu, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Hawc, Petra Hüntemeyer, Kelly Malone, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Nicola Omodei, Nissim Illich Fraija, James Ryan, Kristi Engel, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Arturo Iriarte, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Miguel Mostafa, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Alison Peisker, Cederik León de León, Joe Lundeen, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Jason Fan, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Michelle Hui, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, José Serna-Franco, Arnulfo Zepeda, Brian Fick, Lorenzo Diaz, Rhiannon Turner, Andrew James Smith, Fernando Garfias, Hermes Leon Vargas, Samridha Kunwar, J. A. Goodman, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Thomas Weisgarber, Chad Brisbois, Ke Fang, Henrike Fleischhack, J. T. Linnemann, David Kieda, Lukas Nellen, Hao Zhou, Alejandro Lara, Gerd J. Kunde, Luis Villaseñor, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, César Alvarez, Gwenael Giacinti, Michael DuVernois, Jim Hinton, Jorge Cotzomi, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Hazal Goksu, Ahron S. Barber, John Matthews, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Oscar Martinez, Segev BenZvi, Elijah Willox, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Jose Luis García-Luna, Ignacio Taboada, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Robert Ellsworth, Dezhi Huang, Ruben Alfaro, Gus Sinnis, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Jason Lee, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Umberto Cotti, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Gaurang Yodh, Sabrina Casanova, Binita Hona, Michael Schneider, Felix Werner, Ian Herzog, Wayne Robert Springer, Maria Magdalena González, Vikas Joshi, Eduardo de la Fuente, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Amid Nayerhoda, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Kirsten Tollefson, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Michael Newbold, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, William H. Lee, Julie McEnery, Chang Dong Rho, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Mehr Nisa, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, and Ian James Watson
Subjects: Physics, Range (particle radiation), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Physics::Space Physics, Flux, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Magnetic cloud, Interplanetary spaceflight, Anisotropy, Magnetic flux, Magnetic field
Abstract: We present the observation of an anomalous increment of the galactic cosmic ray (GCR) flux observed by the HAWC array during October 2016. We propose that this anisotropy of the GCR flux was caused by a magnetic flux rope (MFR) i. e., by the helicoidal magnetic field of an interplanetary coronal mass ejection observed at 1 AU at the same time. We computed the trajectory of protons with energy in the range of 10 to 60 GeV, traveling inside the helicoidal magnetic field observed in situ. The direction of these particles changes towards the axis of the MFR resulting in an anisotropy of the GCR flux along this axis. This model shows that the alignment between the MFR axis and the HAWC s asymptotic direction, combined with the high sensitivity of HAWC, allowed us to observe the effect of the passage of the MFR on the GCR flux. We present the HAWC observation associated with the passage of the MFR as well as the helio- spheric circumstances around such phenomenon.
Published: 2021
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22. Reconstruction of Nearly-Horizontal Muons in the HAWC Observatory

Author: Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Jim Hinton, Sergio Hernández Cadena, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Tomás Capistrán, Harm Schoorlemmer, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Dirk Lennarz, Elijah Willox, Brian Humensky, David Berley, Hazal Goksu, Hawc, Dezhi Huang, Gerd J. Kunde, Xiaojie Wang, Robert Ellsworth, J. Patrick Harding, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Gwenael Giacinti, Joe Lundeen, Ian Herzog, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Umberto Cotti, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Alejandro Lara, Wayne Robert Springer, Sabrina Casanova, César Alvarez, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Andrea Albert, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Mora Durocher, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Michael Schneider, Felix Werner, Michael DuVernois, Nicola Omodei, Petra Hüntemeyer, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Meghan Tanner, Miguel Mostafa, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Cederik León de León, Arturo Iriarte, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Hermes Leon Vargas, Michelle Hui, Ke Fang, Colas Rivière, J. A. Goodman, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Vikas Joshi, Amid Nayerhoda, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Ahron S. Barber, Anna Lia Longinotti, Segev BenZvi, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Samridha Kunwar, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Jorge Cotzomi, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Maria Magdalena González, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Arnulfo Zepeda, Brian Fick, Kirsten Tollefson, Fernando Garfias, Jose Andres Garcia Gonzalez, Lorenzo Diaz, Binita Hona, David Kieda, Thomas Weisgarber, Brenda Dingus, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Lukas Nellen, Eduardo de la Fuente, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Hao Zhou, José Serna-Franco, Alison Peisker, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Rishi Babu, Jose Luis García-Luna, Michael Newbold, Kelly Malone, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Gus Sinnis, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Andrew James Smith, Hannah Jhee, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Gaurang Yodh, Mehr Nisa, Nissim Illich Fraija, Henrike Fleischhack, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, J. T. Linnemann, James Ryan, Ian James Watson, Jason Fan, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, William H. Lee, Julie McEnery, Chang Dong Rho, Rhiannon Turner, Chad Brisbois, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Luis Villaseñor, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Francisco Salesa Greus, Joshua Wood, Kristi Engel, John Matthews, Oscar Martinez, Ignacio Taboada, Ruben Alfaro, Jason Lee, and Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez
Subjects: Muon, Observatory, Astronomy, Geology
Published: 2021
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23. Spectral and Energy Morphology Analysis Study of HAWC J2031+415

Author: Ian Herzog, Wayne Robert Springer, Rhiannon Turner, Chad Brisbois, James Ryan, Amid Nayerhoda, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Dirk Lennarz, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Luis Villaseñor, Robert Ellsworth, Segev BenZvi, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Brian Humensky, Andrea Albert, Umberto Cotti, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Harm Schoorlemmer, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Sabrina Casanova, Dezhi Huang, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Meghan Tanner, Colas Rivière, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Samridha Kunwar, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Gus Sinnis, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, David Berley, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Miguel Mostafa, Maria Magdalena González, Guillermo García-Torales, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Cederik León de León, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Gaurang Yodh, Brenda Dingus, Hawc, Eduardo de la Fuente, Hermes Leon Vargas, Binita Hona, Xiaojie Wang, Ke Fang, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, Lukas Nellen, Michelle Hui, Hao Zhou, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Jim Hinton, Sergio Hernández Cadena, J. Patrick Harding, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Alison Peisker, Andrew James Smith, Joe Lundeen, Fernando Garfias, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Elijah Willox, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Henrike Fleischhack, Nicola Omodei, Thomas Weisgarber, Gwenael Giacinti, Arturo Iriarte, Jorge Cotzomi, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, José Serna-Franco, J. A. Goodman, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Gerd J. Kunde, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Jose Luis García-Luna, Ahron S. Barber, J. T. Linnemann, Alejandro Lara, Rishi Babu, Kelly Malone, Hazal Goksu, Michael DuVernois, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, David Kieda, Michael Newbold, Hannah Jhee, Nissim Illich Fraija, Jason Fan, Vikas Joshi, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Kirsten Tollefson, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, John Matthews, Oscar Martinez, Francisco Salesa Greus, Joshua Wood, Kristi Engel, Ignacio Taboada, Ruben Alfaro, Jason Lee, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Tomás Capistrán, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, César Alvarez, Michael Schneider, Felix Werner, Arnulfo Zepeda, Brian Fick, Lorenzo Diaz, William H. Lee, Julie McEnery, Chang Dong Rho, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Mehr Nisa, and Ian James Watson
Subjects: Physics, Range (particle radiation), Star cluster, OB star, Observatory, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cluster (physics), Cygnus OB2, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Pulsar wind nebula, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract: The Cygnus Cocoon region is a complex region containing an OB star cluster that is prominent in the TeV energy range. Located in this region is 3HWC J2031+415, a significant TeV gamma-ray source whose emission is possibly associated with 2 components, the Cygnus OB2 star cluster and a pulsar wind nebula (PWN). In this work, several modelling methods are presented to best describe the emission. These models disentangle emission believed to be from the Cocoon and isolate the component emitted by the probable PWN. I will present several spectral models to describe the emission of the probable PWN using the latest data set from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory. Furthermore, I will present an energy morphology study of the PWN component of 3HWC J2031+415 in distinct energy bands.
Published: 2021
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24. A search for spectral hardening in HAWC sources above 56 TeV

Author: Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, Dirk Lennarz, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Wayne Robert Springer, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Gus Sinnis, Jim Hinton, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Gaurang Yodh, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Brian Humensky, Elijah Willox, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Michael Newbold, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Amid Nayerhoda, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Hawc, James Ryan, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Fernando Garfias, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Andrea Albert, Thomas Weisgarber, Mehr Nisa, Joe Lundeen, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Ian James Watson, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Robert Ellsworth, Vikas Joshi, Harm Schoorlemmer, Michelle Hui, Miguel Mostafa, J. A. Goodman, Meghan Tanner, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Cederik León de León, Nicola Omodei, Colas Rivière, Alison Peisker, Andrew James Smith, Rhiannon Turner, David Kieda, César Alvarez, Chad Brisbois, Arturo Iriarte, Samridha Kunwar, David Berley, Umberto Cotti, Dezhi Huang, Henrike Fleischhack, Hazal Goksu, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Kirsten Tollefson, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Xiaojie Wang, Ahron S. Barber, Rishi Babu, Kelly Malone, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Sabrina Casanova, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Gerd J. Kunde, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, Michael Schneider, Felix Werner, Binita Hona, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, William H. Lee, Hannah Jhee, Julie McEnery, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Chang Dong Rho, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Nissim Illich Fraija, Segev BenZvi, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Luis Villaseñor, Jason Fan, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Arnulfo Zepeda, Ke Fang, Anna Lia Longinotti, Lukas Nellen, Ignacio Taboada, Brian Fick, Lorenzo Diaz, Alejandro Lara, J. Patrick Harding, Hao Zhou, Michael DuVernois, Ruben Alfaro, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Jorge Cotzomi, Jason Lee, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Jose Luis García-Luna, John Matthews, Oscar Martinez, Francisco Salesa Greus, Joshua Wood, Kristi Engel, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Tomás Capistrán, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Maria Magdalena González, Eduardo de la Fuente, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Ian Herzog, Hermes Leon Vargas, Brenda Dingus, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, José Serna-Franco, J. T. Linnemann, and Gwenael Giacinti
Subjects: Physics, Spectral index, Observatory, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Hadron, Hardening (metallurgy), Gamma ray, Astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract: The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is a wide-field-of-view gamma-ray observatory that is optimized to detect gamma rays between ~300 GeV and several hundred TeV. The HAWC Collaboration recently released their third source catalog (3HWC), which contains 65 sources. One of these sources, the ultra-high-energy gamma-ray source 3HWC J1908+063, may exhibit a hardening of the spectral index at the highest energies (above 56 TeV). At least two populations of particles are needed to satisfactorily explain the highest energy emission. This second component could be leptonic or hadronic in origin. If it is hadronic in origin, it would imply the presence of protons with energies up to $\sim$1 PeV near the source. We have searched other 3HWC sources for the presence of this spectral hardening feature. If observed, this would imply that the sources could make good PeVatron candidates.
Published: 2021
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25. Particle Acceleration in the Cygnus Superbubble

Author: Sara Coutiño de Leon, Hazal Goksu, Francisco Salesa Greus, Gwenael Giacinti, Joshua Wood, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Rishi Babu, Samridha Kunwar, Vikas Joshi, Kelly Malone, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Kristi Engel, Binita Hona, Michael Newbold, Vincent Marandon, Ian Herzog, Segev BenZvi, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Alberto Carramiñana, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Kirsten Tollefson, Rhiannon Turner, Harm Schoorlemmer, Chad Brisbois, Robert Ellsworth, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Jim Hinton, Michelle Hui, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Brenda Dingus, Wayne Robert Springer, James Ryan, Fernando Garfias, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Sergio Hernández Cadena, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, J. Patrick Harding, John Matthews, Humberto Martínez Huerta, David Berley, Arnulfo Zepeda, Umberto Cotti, Brian Fick, José Serna-Franco, Thomas Weisgarber, Oscar Martinez, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Amid Nayerhoda, Lorenzo Diaz, Xiaojie Wang, Alison Peisker, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Sabrina Casanova, Tomás Capistrán, Elijah Willox, Andrew James Smith, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Gerd J. Kunde, J. T. Linnemann, Andrea Albert, Henrike Fleischhack, Dezhi Huang, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Ignacio Taboada, Alejandro Lara, Dirk Lennarz, Ruben Alfaro, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Jorge Cotzomi, Meghan Tanner, Hermes Leon Vargas, Colas Rivière, Jason Lee, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Michael DuVernois, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Michael Schneider, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Miguel Mostafa, Felix Werner, Cederik León de León, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Jose Luis García-Luna, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Nicola Omodei, Arturo Iriarte, Ke Fang, César Alvarez, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, J. A. Goodman, Lukas Nellen, Maria Magdalena González, Hao Zhou, Eduardo de la Fuente, Hawc, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Ahron S. Barber, Joe Lundeen, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Gus Sinnis, Hannah Jhee, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Nissim Illich Fraija, Brian Humensky, Gaurang Yodh, Jason Fan, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, David Kieda, Luis Villaseñor, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, William H. Lee, Julie McEnery, Chang Dong Rho, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Mehr Nisa, Ian James Watson, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Yunior Pérez Araujo, and Anna Lia Longinotti
Subjects: Particle acceleration, Physics, Superbubble, Astrophysics
Published: 2021
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26. Study of the morphology of the region surrounding eHWC J1850+001

Author: Fernando Garfias, Thomas Weisgarber, Alison Peisker, Andrew James Smith, Alejandro Lara, Rhiannon Turner, Henrike Fleischhack, Chad Brisbois, Michael DuVernois, Wayne Robert Springer, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Amid Nayerhoda, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Hazal Goksu, Hannah Jhee, Samridha Kunwar, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Dirk Lennarz, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Nicola Omodei, Rishi Babu, Kelly Malone, Harm Schoorlemmer, Arturo Iriarte, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Jorge Cotzomi, Ian Herzog, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Nissim Illich Fraija, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Mehr Nisa, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Ian James Watson, Gus Sinnis, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Michael Newbold, Hawc, Gwenael Giacinti, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Gaurang Yodh, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Andrea Albert, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, John Matthews, David Berley, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Joe Lundeen, Jason Fan, Jose Luis García-Luna, Mora Durocher, Xiaojie Wang, Oscar Martinez, Petra Hüntemeyer, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Michelle Hui, J. Patrick Harding, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Meghan Tanner, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Maria Magdalena González, Colas Rivière, Ke Fang, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Tomás Capistrán, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Francisco Salesa Greus, Joshua Wood, Hermes Leon Vargas, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Ahron S. Barber, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, César Alvarez, Lukas Nellen, Hao Zhou, Eduardo de la Fuente, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, David Kieda, Brenda Dingus, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, José Serna-Franco, Michael Schneider, Binita Hona, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Felix Werner, Robert Ellsworth, Kristi Engel, Vikas Joshi, Umberto Cotti, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, Sabrina Casanova, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Jesús Martínez-Castro, James Ryan, William H. Lee, Julie McEnery, Ignacio Taboada, Chang Dong Rho, J. T. Linnemann, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Arnulfo Zepeda, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Kirsten Tollefson, Ruben Alfaro, Brian Fick, Lorenzo Diaz, Jason Lee, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Luis Villaseñor, Brian Humensky, Dezhi Huang, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, J. A. Goodman, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Jim Hinton, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Elijah Willox, Segev BenZvi, Miguel Mostafa, Cederik León de León, and Gerd J. Kunde
Subjects: Morphology (linguistics), Materials science, Biophysics
Published: 2021
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27. Characterizing gamma-ray sources with HAL (HAWC Accelerated likelihood) and 3ML

Author: Hannah Jhee, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Nissim Illich Fraija, J. A. Goodman, Arnulfo Zepeda, Brian Fick, Lorenzo Diaz, José Serna-Franco, Jason Fan, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, J. T. Linnemann, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Wayne Robert Springer, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Hazal Goksu, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Binita Hona, David Kieda, Jim Hinton, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Tomás Capistrán, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Jorge Cotzomi, Harm Schoorlemmer, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Brian Humensky, Rishi Babu, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Kelly Malone, Amid Nayerhoda, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Fernando Garfias, James Ryan, Gwenael Giacinti, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Samridha Kunwar, Jose Luis García-Luna, Elijah Willox, Alison Peisker, Thomas Weisgarber, Michael Schneider, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Andrew James Smith, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Vardan Baghmanyan, David Berley, Felix Werner, Lukas Nellen, Dezhi Huang, Robert Ellsworth, Henrike Fleischhack, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Hao Zhou, Xiaojie Wang, Hermes Leon Vargas, Michael Newbold, Umberto Cotti, Rhiannon Turner, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Sabrina Casanova, Chad Brisbois, J. Patrick Harding, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Humberto Martínez Huerta, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Vikas Joshi, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, Alejandro Lara, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Brenda Dingus, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Nicola Omodei, Andrea Albert, Ahron S. Barber, Ke Fang, Karen S. Caballero Mora, William H. Lee, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Arturo Iriarte, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Julie McEnery, Michael DuVernois, Chang Dong Rho, Meghan Tanner, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Colas Rivière, Kirsten Tollefson, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Mehr Nisa, Ian James Watson, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Luis Villaseñor, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Gus Sinnis, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Gaurang Yodh, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Ignacio Taboada, Ruben Alfaro, Jason Lee, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Francisco Salesa Greus, Joshua Wood, Kristi Engel, John Matthews, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Oscar Martinez, Dirk Lennarz, Michelle Hui, Gerd J. Kunde, Maria Magdalena González, Segev BenZvi, Eduardo de la Fuente, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Ian Herzog, Miguel Mostafa, Cederik León de León, César Alvarez, Hawc, and Joe Lundeen
Subjects: Physics, Gamma ray, Astrophysics
Published: 2021
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28. Search for TeV decaying dark matter from the Virgo cluster of galaxies

Author: Wayne Robert Springer, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Jim Hinton, Amid Nayerhoda, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Elijah Willox, Michelle Hui, Francisco Salesa Greus, Joshua Wood, Michael Schneider, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Felix Werner, Brian Humensky, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Hawc, Hermes Leon Vargas, José Serna-Franco, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Kristi Engel, Alison Peisker, Michael Newbold, Hannah Jhee, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Joe Lundeen, Lukas Nellen, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, Dirk Lennarz, Tomás Capistrán, Andrew James Smith, J. T. Linnemann, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, J. A. Goodman, Hao Zhou, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Binita Hona, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Henrike Fleischhack, Nissim Illich Fraija, Vikas Joshi, William H. Lee, Dezhi Huang, Ignacio Taboada, Julie McEnery, Ian Herzog, Gus Sinnis, Chang Dong Rho, César Alvarez, Ruben Alfaro, Rhiannon Turner, Chad Brisbois, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Fernando Garfias, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Gaurang Yodh, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Jason Fan, Gwenael Giacinti, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Thomas Weisgarber, Nicola Omodei, James Ryan, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Jason Lee, Jorge Luis Flores, Kirsten Tollefson, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Ibrahim Torres, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Samridha Kunwar, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Arnulfo Zepeda, Arturo Iriarte, Alejandro Lara, Brian Fick, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Lorenzo Diaz, Mehr Nisa, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Ian James Watson, Michael DuVernois, David Kieda, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, J. Patrick Harding, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Maria Magdalena González, John Matthews, Gerd J. Kunde, Brenda Dingus, Harm Schoorlemmer, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Oscar Martinez, Eduardo de la Fuente, M. U. Nisa, Luis Villaseñor, David Berley, Hazal Goksu, Miguel Mostafa, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Xiaojie Wang, Cederik León de León, Segev BenZvi, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Ahron S. Barber, Rishi Babu, Kelly Malone, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Andrea Albert, Ke Fang, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Meghan Tanner, Robert Ellsworth, Colas Rivière, Umberto Cotti, Sabrina Casanova, Jorge Cotzomi, Jose Luis García-Luna, and Jesús Martínez-Castro
Subjects: Physics, Dark matter, Astrophysics, Virgo Cluster, Galaxy
Published: 2021
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29. The Ultra-High-Energy Source MGRO J1908+06

Author: Ian Herzog, Laura Olivera-Nieto, César Alvarez, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Tomás Capistrán, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Dezhi Huang, Robert Ellsworth, J. Patrick Harding, Humberto Martínez Huerta, James Ryan, Brian Humensky, Lukas Nellen, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Umberto Cotti, Hao Zhou, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Segev BenZvi, Sabrina Casanova, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Fernando Garfias, Michelle Hui, Hawc, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Wayne Robert Springer, Nicola Omodei, Jorge Cotzomi, Andrea Albert, Thomas Weisgarber, Joe Lundeen, Arturo Iriarte, Harm Schoorlemmer, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Gwenael Giacinti, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Meghan Tanner, Alison Peisker, David Kieda, Dirk Lennarz, Colas Rivière, Andrew James Smith, J. A. Goodman, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, Henrike Fleischhack, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Amid Nayerhoda, David Berley, Luis Villaseñor, José Serna-Franco, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Jim Hinton, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Hannah Jhee, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Jose Luis García-Luna, Maria Magdalena González, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Elijah Willox, Miguel Mostafa, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Binita Hona, Ahron S. Barber, Cederik León de León, Xiaojie Wang, Nissim Illich Fraija, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Samridha Kunwar, Eduardo de la Fuente, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, J. T. Linnemann, Jason Fan, Rhiannon Turner, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Rishi Babu, Ke Fang, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Chad Brisbois, Gus Sinnis, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Gaurang Yodh, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Brenda Dingus, Gerd J. Kunde, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Kelly Malone, Alejandro Lara, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Michael DuVernois, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, William H. Lee, Julie McEnery, Chang Dong Rho, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Francisco Salesa Greus, Arnulfo Zepeda, Brian Fick, Lorenzo Diaz, Joshua Wood, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Kristi Engel, Michael Newbold, Michael Schneider, Felix Werner, Ignacio Taboada, Vikas Joshi, Ruben Alfaro, Jason Lee, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Kirsten Tollefson, John Matthews, Oscar Martinez, Mehr Nisa, Ian James Watson, Hazal Goksu, and Hermes Leon Vargas
Subjects: Physics, High energy, education.field_of_study, Spectral index, Observatory, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, Hadron, Spectral energy distribution, Astrophysics, education, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract: The TeV gamma-ray source MGRO J1908+06 is one of the highest-energy sources known, with observed emission by the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory extending well past 100 TeV. The source exhibits both energy-dependent morphology and a spatially-dependent spectral index. The emission is likely to be dominantly leptonic, and associated with the radio-quiet PSR J1907+0602. However, one-population models do not describe the data well; a second particle population is needed to explain the shape of the spectral energy distribution at the highest energies. This component can be well-described by either leptonic or hadronic hypotheses. We discuss this feature and implications for detection by multi-wavelength and multi-messenger experiments.
Published: 2021
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30. Simulations of the cosmic-ray anisotropy down to TeV energies

Author: Brian Reville and Gwenael Giacinti
Subjects: Physics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Anisotropy
Published: 2021
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31. Evidence that Ultra-High-Energy Gamma Rays are a Universal Feature Near Powerful Pulsars

Author: R. Diaz Hernandez, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, J. A. Goodman, J. R. Angeles Camacho, Michael Newbold, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Catalina Espinoza, John Matthews, Fernando Garfias, Jesús Martínez-Castro, H. A. Ayala Solares, Andrea Albert, Segev BenZvi, C. D. Rho, Thomas Weisgarber, Nicola Omodei, Dezhi Huang, Nissim Illich Fraija, E. Ruiz-Velasco, R. Torres-Escobedo, Ibrahim Torres, Arturo Iriarte, H. León Vargas, A. Carraminana, Joe Lundeen, R. W. Ellsworth, Meghan Tanner, C. De León, A. Sandoval, O. Martinez, K. Malone, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, R. W. Springer, Michael Schneider, Alison Peisker, H. Zhou, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, K. P. Arunbabu, A. L. Longinotti, Kristi Engel, Harm Schoorlemmer, B. Hona, A. Jardin-Blicq, Elijah Willox, J. D. Álvarez, J. A. Morales-Soto, T. Capistrán, A. J. Smith, David Kieda, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Y. Pérez Araujo, J. P. Harding, Gwenael Giacinti, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, L. Nellen, A. Nayerhoda, R. Noriega-Papaqui, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, S. Hernandez, Ruben Alfaro, William H. Lee, L. Olivera-Nieto, M. Fernández Alonso, C. Alvarez, Y. J. Roh, Miguel Mostafa, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, José Serna-Franco, Luis Villaseñor, Umberto Cotti, E. De la Fuente, Sabrina Casanova, D. Avila Rojas, V. Joshi, F. Salesa Greus, S. Coutiño de León, M. U. Nisa, Jorge Cotzomi, Alejandro Lara, J. T. Linnemann, Rhiannon Turner, Maria Magdalena González, Michael DuVernois, Kwok Lung Fan, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, J. S. H. Lee, E. Moreno, A. Galván-Gámez, Brenda Dingus, V. Marandon, K. Tollefson, C. Brisbois, V. Baghmanyan, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, Pooja Surajbali, Fernando Ureña-Mena, and Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez
Subjects: Astroparticle physics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), High energy, High-energy astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Pulsar, Space and Planetary Science, Feature (computer vision), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The highest-energy known gamma-ray sources are all located within 0.5 degrees of extremely powerful pulsars. This raises the question of whether ultra-high-energy (UHE; $>$ 56 TeV) gamma-ray emission is a universal feature expected near pulsars with a high spin-down power. Using four years of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory, we present a joint-likelihood analysis of ten extremely powerful pulsars to search for UHE gamma-ray emission correlated with these locations. We report a significant detection ($>$ 3$��$), indicating that UHE gamma-ray emission is a generic feature of powerful pulsars. We discuss the emission mechanisms of the gamma rays and the implications of this result. The individual environment that each pulsar is found in appears to play a role in the amount of emission., accepted by ApJL
Published: 2021

32. Use of Machine Learning for gamma/hadron separation with HAWC

Author: Tomás Capistrán, Kwok Lung Fan, James T. Linnemann, Ibrahim Torres, Pablo Miguel Saz Parkinson, Philip L. H. Yu, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Andrea Albert, Ruben Alfaro, César Alvarez, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Rishi Babu, Vardan Baghmanyan, Ahron S. Barber, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Segev BenZvi, David Berley, Chad Brisbois, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Alberto Carramiñana, Sabrina Casanova, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Umberto Cotti, Jorge Cotzomi, Sara Coutiño de León, Eduardo de la Fuente, Cederik León de León, Lorenzo Diaz, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Brenda Dingus, Mora Durocher, Michael DuVernois, Robert Ellsworth, Kristi Engel, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Ke Fang, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Brian Fick, Henrike Fleischhack, Jorge Luis Flores, Nissim Illich Fraija, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Jose Luis García-Luna, Guillermo García-Torales, Fernando Garfias, Gwenael Giacinti, Hazal Goksu, Maria Magdalena González, Jordan A. Goodman, J. Patrick Harding, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Ian Herzog, Jim Hinton, Binita Hona, Dezhi Huang, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Michelle Hui, Brian Humensky, Petra Hüntemeyer, Arturo Iriarte, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Hannah Jhee, Vikas Joshi, David Kieda, Gerd J. Kunde, Samridha Kunwar, Alejandro Lara, Jason LEE, William H. Lee, Dirk Lennarz, Hermes Leon Vargas, Anna Lia Longinotti, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Joe Lundeen, Kelly Malone, Vincent Marandon, Oscar M Martinez, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Jesús Martínez-Castro, John Matthews, Julie McEnery, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Miguel Mostafa, Amid Nayerhoda, Lukas Nellen, Michael Newbold, Mehr Un Nisa, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Nicola Omodei, Alison Peisker, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Chang Dong Rho, Colas Rivière, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, James Ryan, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Francisco Salesa Greus, Andrés Sandoval, Michael Schneider, Harm Schoorlemmer, José Serna-Franco, Gus Sinnis, Andrew James Smith, Wayne Robert Springer, Pooja Surajbali, Ignacio Taboada, Meghan Tanner, Kirsten Tollefson, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Rhiannon M. Turner, Fernando Josue Urena Mena, Luis Villaseñor, Xiaojie Wang, Ian James Watson, Thomas Weisgarber, Felix Werner, Elijah Job Willox, Joshua Wood, Gaurang Yodh, Arnulfo Zepeda, and Hao Zhou
Subjects: Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Artificial neural network, High-energy astronomy, business.industry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Separation (aeronautics), Hadron, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Machine learning, computer.software_genre, Crab Nebula, Observatory, Alternating decision tree, Artificial intelligence, business, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, computer, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Cherenkov radiation
Abstract: Background showers triggered by hadrons represent over 99.9% of all particles arriving at ground-based gamma-ray observatories. An important stage in the data analysis of these observatories, therefore, is the removal of hadron-triggered showers. Currently, the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory employs an algorithm based on a single cut in two variables, unlike other ground-based gamma-ray observatories (e.g. H.E.S.S., VERITAS), which employ a large number of variables to separate the primary particles. In this work, we explore machine learning techniques (Boosted Decision Trees and Neural Networks) to identify the primary particles detected by HAWC. Our new gamma/hadron separation techniques were tested on data from the Crab nebula, the standard reference in Very High Energy astronomy, showing an improvement compared to the standard HAWC background rejection method., Comment: Presented at the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021), Berlin, Germany - Online
Published: 2021
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33. Spectrum and morphology of the very-high-energy source HAWC J2019+368

Author: R. W. Springer, C. D. Rho, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, Alison Peisker, A. J. Smith, J. A. Morales-Soto, E. Moreno, Sabrina Casanova, V. Joshi, Dezhi Huang, Rhiannon Turner, Michael DuVernois, L. Nellen, A. Carraminana, T. Capistrán, Joe Lundeen, J. P. Harding, Gwenael Giacinti, Jorge Cotzomi, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Nicola Omodei, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, S. Coutiño de León, T. Weisgarber, V. Baghmanyan, Catalina Espinoza, J. A. Goodman, D. Garcia, Nissim Illich Fraija, H. Zhou, A. Jardin-Blicq, Jesús Martínez-Castro, H. A. Ayala Solares, K. P. Arunbabu, A. L. Longinotti, A. Sandoval, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, O. Martinez, Jim Hinton, Andrea Albert, Michael Schneider, P. Huentemeyer, Miguel Mostafa, C. Brisbois, Harm Schoorlemmer, M. U. Nisa, R. Noriega-Papaqui, Binita Hona, Elijah Willox, Pooja Surajbali, Brenda Dingus, William H. Lee, L. Olivera-Nieto, Michael Newbold, José Serna-Franco, R. Diaz Hernandez, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, R. López-Coto, K. Tollefson, Y. Pérez Araujo, E. Ruiz-Velasco, A. Nayerhoda, J. T. Linnemann, F. Salesa Greus, Ibrahim Torres, Mora Durocher, H. León Vargas, C. Alvarez, Maria Magdalena González, E. De la Fuente, C. De León, D. Avila Rojas, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, K. Malone, John Matthews, Ruben Alfaro, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, and Kristi Engel
Subjects: Energy dependent, Physics, High energy, Nebula, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, media_common.quotation_subject, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Pulsar wind nebula, Pulsar, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, 0103 physical sciences, Supernova remnant, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, media_common
Abstract: The MGRO J2019+37 region is one of the brightest sources in the sky at TeV energies. It was detected in the second HAWC catalog as 2HWC J2019+367 and here we present a detailed study of this region using data from HAWC. This analysis resolves the region into two sources: HAWC J2019+368 and HAWC J2016+371. We associate HAWC J2016+371 with the evolved supernova remnant CTB 87, although its low significance in this analysis prevents a detailed study at this time. An investigation of the morphology (including possible energy-dependent morphology) and spectrum for HAWC J2019+368 is the focus of this work. We associate HAWC J2019+368 with PSR J2021+3651 and its X-ray pulsar wind nebula, the Dragonfly nebula. Modeling the spectrum measured by HAWC and Suzaku reveals a ∼7 kyr pulsar and nebula system producing the observed emission at X-ray and γ-ray energies.
Published: 2021

34. Formation of giant plasmoids at the pulsar wind termination shock: A possible origin of the inner-ring knots in the Crab Nebula

Author: Benoît Cerutti, Gwenael Giacinti, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), and Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Plasmoid, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Pulsar wind nebula, outflows, methods: numerical, Current sheet, Pulsar, Physics::Plasma Physics, pulsars: general, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, acceleration of particles, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Nebula, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Computer Science::Information Retrieval, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Torus, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Physics - Plasma Physics, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEN-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/General Physics [physics.gen-ph], Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph), Crab Nebula, Space and Planetary Science, magnetic reconnection, stars: winds, Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Heliosphere
Abstract: Nearby pulsar wind nebulae exhibit complex morphological features: jets, torus, arcs and knots. These structures are well captured and understood in the scope of global magnetohydrodynamic models. However, the origin of knots in the inner radius of the Crab Nebula remains elusive. In this work, we investigate the dynamics of the shock front and downstream flow with a special emphasis on the reconnecting equatorial current sheet. We examine whether giant plasmoids produced in the reconnection process could be good candidates for the knots. To this end, we perform large semi-global three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations in a spherical geometry. The hierarchical merging plasmoid model is used to extrapolate numerical results to pulsar wind nebula scales. The shocked material collapses into the midplane, forming and feeding a large-scale, but thin, ring-like current layer. The sheet breaks up into a dynamical chain of merging plasmoids reminiscent of three-dimensional reconnection. Plasmoids grow to a macroscopic size. The final number of plasmoids predicted is solely governed by the inverse of the dimensionless reconnection rate. The formation of giant plasmoids is a robust feature of pulsar wind termination shocks. They provide a natural explanation for the inner-ring knots in the Crab Nebula, provided that the nebula is highly magnetized., Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, revision includes A&A language editing
Published: 2021
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35. Standardized Formats for Gamma-Ray Analysis Applied to HAWC Observatory Data

Author: Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Rishi Babu, Kelly Malone, Ahron S. Barber, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Ignacio Taboada, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Ruben Alfaro, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Wayne Robert Springer, Miguel Mostafa, Vikas Joshi, Jason Lee, Brenda Dingus, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Cederik León de León, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Ke Fang, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Michael Schneider, Francisco Salesa Greus, Felix Werner, José Serna-Franco, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Joshua Wood, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Axel Donath, Jorge Cotzomi, Binita Hona, César Alvarez, Gerd J. Kunde, Samridha Kunwar, Kristi Engel, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Harm Schoorlemmer, Alison Peisker, Andrew James Smith, Amid Nayerhoda, J. T. Linnemann, Luis Villaseñor, Henrike Fleischhack, James Ryan, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Hazal Goksu, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, Lukas Nellen, Segev BenZvi, J. A. Goodman, Gwenael Giacinti, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Hao Zhou, J. Patrick Harding, Jose Luis García-Luna, Andrea Albert, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Kirsten Tollefson, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, Robert Ellsworth, David Berley, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Brian Humensky, Tomás Capistrán, John Matthews, Fernando Garfias, Jim Hinton, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Rhiannon Turner, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Xiaojie Wang, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Umberto Cotti, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Meghan Tanner, Chad Brisbois, Thomas Weisgarber, Arnulfo Zepeda, Nicola Omodei, Sabrina Casanova, Colas Rivière, Oscar Martinez, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Brian Fick, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Hermes Leon Vargas, Arturo Iriarte, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Lorenzo Diaz, Elijah Willox, Alejandro Lara, Michael Newbold, Joe Lundeen, Dezhi Huang, Michael DuVernois, Ian Herzog, David Kieda, Hannah Jhee, Nissim Illich Fraija, Maria Magdalena González, Jason Fan, Eduardo de la Fuente, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Dirk Lennarz, Michelle Hui, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Gus Sinnis, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Gaurang Yodh, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, William H. Lee, Julie McEnery, Chang Dong Rho, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Mehr Nisa, and Ian James Watson
Subjects: HAWC - Abteilung Hinton, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Event (computing), Computer science, FOS: Physical sciences, Proprietary software, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Data sharing, Observatory, Systems engineering, Analysis tools, Common Data Format, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Cherenkov radiation
Abstract: A wide range of data formats and proprietary software have traditionally been used in gamma-ray astronomy, usually developed for a single specific mission or experiment. However, in recent years there has been an increasing effort towards making astronomical data open and easily accessible. Within the gamma-ray community this has translated to the creation of a common data format across different gamma-ray observatories: the "gamma-astro-data-format" (GADF). Based on a similar premise, open-source analysis packages, such as Gammapy, are being developed and aim to provide a single, robust tool which suits the needs of many experiments at once. In this contribution we show that data from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory can be made compatible with the GADF and present the first GADF-based production of event lists and instrument response functions for a ground-based wide-field instrument. We use these data products to reproduce with excellent agreement the published HAWC Crab spectrum using Gammapy. Having a common data format and analysis tools facilitates joint analysis between different experiments and effective data sharing. This will be especially important for next-generation instruments, such as the proposed Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) and the planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)., Comment: Submitted at the 37th International Cosmic Ray conference (ICRC 2021) under the reference PoS(ICRC2021)727
Published: 2021
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36. Evidence of 200 TeV photons from HAWC J1825-134

Author: R. Noriega-Papaqui, J. R. Angeles Camacho, Gerd J. Kunde, Luis Villaseñor, C. Brisbois, K. Tollefson, J. T. Linnemann, Catalina Espinoza, D. Garcia, F. Serna, Nicola Omodei, A. Iriarte, H. A. Ayala Solares, Lukas Nellen, I. Torres, E. Belmont-Moreno, Gwenael Giacinti, A. Sandoval, B. Hona, Segev BenZvi, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, Vincent Marandon, H. Fleischhack, Michael Schneider, J. Lundeen, Mehr Nisa, K. Engel, Vardan Baghmanyan, F. Salesa Greus, Nissim Fraija, K. P. Arunbabu, A. L. Longinotti, M. Mostafá, J. A. Goodman, M. Durocher, A. Jardin-Blicq, C. De León, Andrea Albert, M. Newbold, U. Cotti, Brenda Dingus, J. P. Harding, J. Martínez-Castro, Alejandro Lara, A. Peisker, E. Moreno, Amid Nayerhoda, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Michael DuVernois, A. Carramiñana, Y. Pérez Araujo, H. León Vargas, R. Diaz Hernandez, E. Willox, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, John Matthews, A. Galván-Gámez, E. De la Fuente, D. Avila Rojas, Oscar Martinez, G. Luis-Raya, Sabrina Casanova, V. Joshi, J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez, P. Hüntemeyer, W. H. Lee, Ke Fang, R. Torres-Escobedo, T. Capistrán, J. Cotzomi, F. Ureña-Mena, F. Garfias, Maria Magdalena González, Hongyan Zhou, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Ruben Alfaro, C. D. Rho, R. W. Springer, H. Salazar, C. Alvarez, D. Huang, K. Malone, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, and Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez
Subjects: Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Photon, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Proton, Molecular cloud, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Radiation, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: The Earth is bombarded by ultra-relativistic particles, known as cosmic rays (CRs). CRs with energies up to a few PeV (=10$^{15}$ eV), the knee in the particle spectrum, are believed to have a Galactic origin. One or more factories of PeV CRs, or PeVatrons, must thus be active within our Galaxy. The direct detection of PeV protons from their sources is not possible since they are deflected in the Galactic magnetic fields. Hundred TeV $\gamma$-rays from decaying $\pi^0$, produced when PeV CRs collide with the ambient gas, can provide the decisive evidence of proton acceleration up to the knee. Here we report the discovery by the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory of the $\gamma$-ray source, HAWC~J1825-134, whose energy spectrum extends well beyond 200 TeV without a break or cutoff. The source is found to be coincident with a giant molecular cloud. The ambient gas density is as high as 700 protons/cm$^3$. While the nature of this extreme accelerator remains unclear, CRs accelerated to energies of several PeV colliding with the ambient gas likely produce the observed radiation., Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJL
Published: 2020

37. A global model of particle acceleration at pulsar wind termination shocks

Author: Benoît Cerutti, Gwenael Giacinti, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble [2020-....] (OSUG [2020-....]), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2020-....] (UGA [2020-....])-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2020-....] (UGA [2020-....])
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, outflows, methods: numerical, Acceleration, Pulsar, pulsars: general, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, acceleration of particles, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Range (particle radiation), Shock (fluid dynamics), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Magnetic reconnection, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Physics - Plasma Physics, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEN-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/General Physics [physics.gen-ph], Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph), Particle acceleration, Crab Nebula, Space and Planetary Science, magnetic reconnection, stars: winds, Physics::Space Physics, Microturbulence, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: Pulsar wind nebulae are efficient particle accelerators, and yet the processes at work remain elusive. Self-generated, microturbulence is too weak in relativistic magnetized shocks to accelerate particles over a wide energy range, suggesting that the global dynamics of the nebula may be involved in the acceleration process instead. In this work, we study the role played by the large-scale anisotropy of the transverse magnetic field profile on the shock dynamics. We performed large two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations for a wide range of upstream plasma magnetizations. A large-scale velocity shear and current sheets form in the equatorial regions and at the poles, where they drive strong plasma turbulence via Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices and kinks. The mixing of current sheets in the downstream flow leads to efficient nonthermal particle acceleration. The power-law spectrum hardens with increasing magnetization, akin to those found in relativistic reconnection and kinetic turbulence studies. The high end of the spectrum is composed of particles surfing on the wake produced by elongated spearhead-shaped cavities forming at the shock front and piercing through the upstream flow. These particles are efficiently accelerated via the shear-flow acceleration mechanism near the Bohm limit. Magnetized relativistic shocks are very efficient particle accelerators. Capturing the global dynamics of the downstream flow is crucial to understanding them, and therefore local plane parallel studies may not be appropriate for pulsar wind nebulae and possibly other astrophysical relativistic magnetized shocks. A natural outcome of such shocks is a variable and Doppler-boosted synchrotron emission at the high end of the spectrum originating from the shock-front cavities, reminiscent of the mysterious Crab Nebula gamma-ray flares., 12 pages, 11 figures, Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2020
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38. 3HWC: The Third HAWC Catalog of Very-High-Energy Gamma-ray Sources

Author: Michael Newbold, O. Martinez, Segev BenZvi, F. Serna, Pooja Surajbali, Gus Sinnis, Fernando Garfias, S. Hernandez, A. Zepeda, Fernando Ureña-Mena, E. Ruiz-Velasco, H. Zhou, Y. Pérez Araujo, Nicola Omodei, Arturo Iriarte, A. Nayerhoda, L. Diaz-Cruz, K. P. Arunbabu, A. L. Longinotti, R. Diaz Hernandez, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, A. Sandoval, H. León Vargas, J. A. Morales-Soto, Michael Schneider, A. Jardin-Blicq, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, Harm Schoorlemmer, B. Hona, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, K. Malone, T. N. Ukwatta, R. Noriega-Papaqui, Andrea Albert, Tomás Capistrán, Kwok Lung Fan, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, William H. Lee, L. Olivera-Nieto, V. Baghmanyan, Alison Peisker, C. Brisbois, Henrike Fleischhack, A. Carraminana, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, C. Rivière, Mehr Nisa, Miguel Mostafa, D. Garcia, Joe Lundeen, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, John Matthews, R. López-Coto, J. P. Harding, R. W. Ellsworth, S. Coutiño de León, T. Weisgarber, V. Joshi, J. R. Angeles Camacho, Alejandro Lara, A. J. Smith, Ibrahim Torres, L. Nellen, J. D. Álvarez, Ke Fang, Ruben Alfaro, K. Tollefson, F. Salesa Greus, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, M. Fernández Alonso, C. Alvarez, Kristi Engel, Michael DuVernois, C. De León, E. De la Fuente, J. T. Linnemann, F. Werner, D. Avila Rojas, J. A. Goodman, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Dezhi Huang, A. Galván-Gámez, Brenda Dingus, V. Marandon, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Catalina Espinoza, Jesús Martínez-Castro, H. A. Ayala Solares, Gwenael Giacinti, I. Martinez-Castellanos, R. Torres-Escobedo, E. Moreno, R. W. Springer, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, David Kieda, Umberto Cotti, Sabrina Casanova, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Nissim Illich Fraija, Jim Hinton, Maria Magdalena González, Elijah Willox, Z. Ren, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, and C. D. Rho
Subjects: Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), High energy, High-energy astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Gamma-ray astronomy, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Pulsar, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a new catalog of TeV gamma-ray sources using 1523 days of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory. The catalog represents the most sensitive survey of the Northern gamma-ray sky at energies above several TeV, with three times the exposure compared to the previous HAWC catalog, 2HWC. We report 65 sources detected at $\geq$ 5 sigma significance, along with the positions and spectral fits for each source. The catalog contains eight sources that have no counterpart in the 2HWC catalog, but are within $1^\circ$ of previously detected TeV emitters, and twenty sources that are more than $1^\circ$ away from any previously detected TeV source. Of these twenty new sources, fourteen have a potential counterpart in the fourth \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope catalog of gamma-ray sources. We also explore potential associations of 3HWC sources with pulsars in the ATNF pulsar catalog and supernova remnants in the Galactic supernova remnant catalog., 20 pages, 11 figures. Matches the version published in The Astrophysical Journal. See accompanying data release at https://data.hawc-observatory.org/datasets/3hwc-survey/index.php
Published: 2020

39. HAWC J2227+610 and its association with G106.3+2.7, a new potential Galactic PeVatron

Author: E. Moreno, P. Hüntemeyer, R. Torres-Escobedo, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, R. Noriega-Papaqui, J. T. Linnemann, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, J. A. Goodman, J. R. Angeles Camacho, K. Tollefson, Catalina Espinoza, H. León Vargas, H. A. Ayala Solares, J. A. Morales-Soto, Segev BenZvi, A. Galván-Gámez, Luis Villaseñor, Sabrina Casanova, V. Joshi, K. Malone, K. P. Arunbabu, Kwok Lung Fan, D. Garcia, S. Hernandez, U. Cotti, Arnulfo Zepeda, E. De la Fuente, S. S. Marinelli, D. Avila Rojas, E. Belmont-Moreno, Mehr Nisa, Nicola Omodei, H. Schoorlemmer, Andrea Albert, J. P. Harding, F. Garfias, M. Newbold, A. Iriarte, J. D. Álvarez, E. Tabachnick, P. Surajbali, Meghan Tanner, A. J. Smith, B. Hona, C. De León, M. Fernández Alonso, T. Capistrán, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, A. Sandoval, G. Luis-Raya, R. W. Ellsworth, Michael Schneider, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, E. Ruiz-Velasco, S. Coutiño de León, C. Brisbois, M. Mostafá, Y. Pérez Araujo, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, R. W. Springer, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Amid Nayerhoda, T. Weisgarber, Brenda Dingus, Maria Magdalena González, Nissim Fraija, G. Sinnis, Ke Fang, H. Salazar, Lukas Nellen, Hongyan Zhou, J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez, Michael DuVernois, A. Carramiñana, I. Torres, Gwenael Giacinti, F. Ureña-Mena, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, J. Serna Franco, I. Martinez-Castellanos, C. Alvarez, K. Engel, Ruben Alfaro, C. D. Rho, F. Salesa Greus, A. L. Longinotti, W. H. Lee, A. Peisker, L. Diaz-Cruz, D. Huang, J. Cotzomi, J. Martínez-Castro, O. Tibolla, Henrike Fleischhack, J. Hinton, J. Lundeen, Vardan Baghmanyan, John Matthews, Oscar Martinez, and HAWC Collaboration
Subjects: HAWC - Abteilung Hinton, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Hydrogen compounds, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Lower limit, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Supernova remnant, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: We present the detection of VHE gamma-ray emission above 100 TeV from HAWC J2227+610 with the HAWC observatory. Combining our observations with previously published results by VERITAS, we interpret the gamma-ray emission from HAWC J2227+610 as emission from protons with a lower limit in their cutoff energy of 800 TeV. The most likely source of the protons is the associated supernova remnant G106.3+2.7, making it a good candidate for a Galactic PeVatron. However, a purely leptonic origin of the observed emission cannot be excluded at this time., Accepted for publication by ApJL
Published: 2020

40. Would SN1993J Have Been Detected by Next-generation Cerenkov Instruments?

Author: Vikram V. Dwarkadas, P. Cristofari, Gwenael Giacinti, V. Tatischeff, M. Renaud, A. Marcowith, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 0103 physical sciences, Astronomy, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, General Medicine, Gamma-ray astronomy, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: International audience; Already in the first days after the explosion of a supernova, the strong shock expanding forward into the dense wind of the progenitor star can theoretically accelerate particles up to the ~PeV (=1015 eV) range. These accelerated particles, interacting with the dense wind material, should lead to the production of gamma-rays in the 1–100 TeV range, through pion production. However, no supernova has yet been detected by current Cerenkov instruments, and the question of the detectability of extragalactic supernovae in nearby galaxies (within a few Mpc) by next generation instruments is still open. The detection in the TeV range is especially hindered by the two-photon annihilation process, in which high-energy gamma-rays interact with soft photons from the photosphere to produce electron/positron pairs, thereby degrading the gamma-ray signal from the system. We calculate the temporal evolution of the expected gamma-ray attenuation in the well-studied type IIb SN 1993J, accounting for both temporal and geometrical effects.
Published: 2020
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41. The Implications of TeV-detected GRB Afterglows for Acceleration at Relativistic Shocks

Author: Gwenael Giacinti, Brian Reville, John Kirk, and Zhi-Qiu Huang
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Motivated by the detection of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays deep in the afterglow emission of a gamma-ray burst (GRB), we revisit predictions of the maximum energy to which electrons can be accelerated at a relativistic blast wave. Acceleration at the weakly magnetized forward shock of a blast wave can be limited by either the rapid damping of turbulence generated behind the shock, the effect of a large-scale ambient magnetic field, or radiation losses. Within the confines of a standard, single-zone, synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model, we show that observations of GRB 190829A rule out a rapid damping of the downstream turbulence. Furthermore, simultaneous fits to the X-ray and TeV gamma-ray emission of this object are not possible unless the limit on acceleration imposed by the ambient magnetic field is comparable to or weaker than that imposed by radiation losses. This requires the dominant length scale of the turbulence behind the shock to be larger than that implied by particle-in-cell simulations. However, even then, Klein–Nishina effects prevent production of the hard VHE gamma-ray spectrum suggested by observations. Thus, TeV observations of GRB afterglows, though still very sparse, are already in tension with the SSC emission scenario.
Published: 2022
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42. Core-collapse supernovae as cosmic ray sources

Author: Vikram V. Dwarkadas, Gwenael Giacinti, Matthieu Renaud, Alexandre Marcowith, Vincent Tatischeff, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)
Subjects: Shock wave, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Article, Acceleration, cosmic rays, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Blast wave, acceleration of particles, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Breakout, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, shock waves, Magnetic field, Shock (mechanics), Core (optical fiber), Particle acceleration, Supernova, Space and Planetary Science, Streaming instability, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) produce fast shocks which pervade the dense circum-stellar medium (CSM) of the stellar progenitor. Cosmic rays (CRs) if accelerated at these shocks can induce the growth of electromagnetic fluctuations in the foreshock medium. In this study, using a self-similar description of the shock evolution, we calculate the growth timescales of CR-driven instabilities. We select a sample of nearby core collapse radio supernova of type II and Ib/Ic. From radio data we infer the parameters which enter in the calculation of the instability growth times. We find that extended IIb SNe shocks can trigger fast intra day instabilities, strong magnetic field amplification and CR acceleration. In particular, the non-resonant streaming instability can contribute to about 50\% of the magnetic field intensity deduced from radio data. This results in the acceleration of CRs in the range 1-10 PeV within a few days after the shock breakout. In order to produce strong magnetic field amplification and CR acceleration a fast shocks pervading a dense CSM is necessary. In that aspect IIn supernov\ae~are also good candidates. But a detailed modeling of the blast wave dynamics coupled with particle acceleration is mandatory for this class of object before providing any firm conclusions. Finally, we find that the trans-relativistic object SN 2009bb even if it produces more modest magnetic field amplification can accelerate CRs up to 2-3 PeV within 20 days after the outburst., Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2018
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43. Galactic Cosmic-Rays in a Breeze

Author: Gwenael Giacinti and Andrew M. Taylor
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Brightness, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Bubble, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Satellite, Outflow, Halo, Diffusion (business), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: We study a scenario in which the Fermi bubbles are formed through a Galactocentric outflow of gas and pre-accelerated cosmic-rays (CR). We take into account CR energy losses due to proton-proton interactions with the gas present in the bubbles, and calculate the associated gamma-ray emission. We find that CRs diffusing and advecting within a breeze outflow result in an approximately flat surface brightness profile of the gamma-ray emission, as observed by Fermi satellite. Finally, we apply similar outflow profiles to larger Galactocentric radii, and investigate their effects on the CR spectrum and boron-to-carbon ratio. Hardenings can appear in the spectrum, even in cases with equal CR diffusion coefficients in the disk and halo., Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the conference "Cosmic ray origin - beyond the standard models" (San Vito, Italy, 2016). Submitted to Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Published: 2018
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44. Author Correction: HAWC observations of the acceleration of very-high-energy cosmic rays in the Cygnus Cocoon

Author: A. Jardin-Blicq, J. A. Morales-Soto, Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez, A. Sandoval, Mora Durocher, D. Garcia, C. Alvarez, E. De la Fuente, F. Werner, D. Avila Rojas, F. Serna, J. R. Angeles Camacho, Kwok Lung Fan, Petra Hüntemeyer, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, Michael Schneider, R. Diaz Hernandez, S. Hernandez, Nicola Omodei, Arturo Iriarte, K. Tollefson, B. Hona, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, C. De León, V. Baghmanyan, E. Moreno, C. Brisbois, Umberto Cotti, Maria Magdalena González, Kristi Engel, Nissim Illich Fraija, Sabrina Casanova, Fernando Garfias, A. Zepeda, Harm Schoorlemmer, Pooja Surajbali, J. A. Matthews, E. Ruiz-Velasco, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, H. Zhou, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Alison Peisker, Z. Ren, Ibrahim Torres, R. Noriega-Papaqui, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, K. P. Arunbabu, Ruben Alfaro, A. L. Longinotti, H. León Vargas, J. P. Harding, Henrike Fleischhack, William H. Lee, L. Olivera-Nieto, O. Martinez, T. Weisgarber, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Miguel Mostafa, Michael DuVernois, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Roger Blandford, S. Coutiño de León, R. W. Springer, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, Michael Newbold, Alejandro Lara, K. Malone, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, V. Joshi, J. D. Álvarez, E. Belmont-Moreno, A. J. Smith, Ke Fang, C. D. Rho, T. Capistrán, David Kieda, L. Nellen, F. Salesa Greus, A. Carraminana, Joe Lundeen, R. W. Ellsworth, Jim Hinton, Elijah Willox, J. A. Goodman, Dezhi Huang, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, M. U. Nisa, A. Galván-Gámez, Brenda Dingus, J. T. Linnemann, Y. Pérez Araujo, A. Nayerhoda, Segev BenZvi, Gwenael Giacinti, I. Martinez-Castellanos, Andrea Albert, R. Torres-Escobedo, Karen S. Caballero-Mora, Catalina Espinoza, Jesús Martínez-Castro, and H. A. Ayala Solares
Subjects: Physics, Acceleration, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray
Published: 2021
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45. Direct Numerical Simulations of Cosmic-ray Acceleration at Dense Circumstellar Medium: Magnetic-field Amplification and Maximum Energy

Author: Tsuyoshi Inoue, Gwenael Giacinti, Shogo Nishino, Allard Jan van Marle, A. Marcowith, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)
Subjects: geometry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, blast wave, magnetic field, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 030226 pharmacology & pharmacy, 01 natural sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, Acceleration, 0302 clinical medicine, gas, supernova, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, cosmic radiation: acceleration, numerical calculations, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, trigger, stability, Magnetic field, Computational physics, star: massive, hydrodynamics: magnetic, injection, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, cosmic radiation: galaxy, hydrogen, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: Galactic cosmic rays are believed to be accelerated at supernova remnants. However, whether supernova remnants can be PeV is still very unclear. In this work we argue that PeV cosmic rays can be accelerated during the early phase of a supernova blast-wave expansion in dense red supergiant winds. We solve in spherical geometry a system combining a diffusive–convection equation that treats cosmic-ray dynamics coupled to magnetohydrodynamics to follow gas dynamics. A fast shock expanding in a dense ionized wind is able to trigger fast, non-resonant streaming instability over day timescales and energizes cosmic rays even under the effect of p–p losses. We find that such environments produce PeV blast waves, although the maximum energy depends on various parameters such as the injection rate and mass-loss rate of the winds. Multi-PeV energies can be reached if the progenitor mass-loss rates are of the order of 10−3 M ⊙ yr−1. It has been recently proposed that, prior to the explosion, hydrogen-rich massive stars can produce enhanced mass-loss rates. These enhanced rates would then favor the production of a PeV phase in early times after shock breakout.
Published: 2021
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46. Numerical Simulations of Cosmic-Ray Acceleration at Core-Collapse Supernovae

Author: Gwenael Giacinti, Vikram V. Dwarkadas, Alexandre Marcowith, A. Chiavassa, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Shock wave, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, cosmic radiation: energy, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, VHE, Acceleration, supernova, site, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Red supergiant, cosmic radiation: acceleration, numerical calculations, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Breakout, shock waves, star: surface, Shock (mechanics), Core (optical fiber), Supernova, collapse, hydrodynamics, time dependence, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: Core-collapse supernovae exploding in dense winds are favorable sites for cosmic-ray (CR) acceleration to very high energies. We present our CR-radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of the explosion of a red supergiant. We study the evolution of the shock wave during the first day following core collapse, and estimate the time at which CR acceleration can start. We then calculate the maximum CR energy at the forward shock as a function of time, and show that it may already exceed 100 TeV only a few hours after shock breakout from the surface of the star., 8 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2019), held July 24th - August 1st, 2019 in Madison, WI, USA
Published: 2019
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47. Cosmic-Ray Diffusion and Galactic Magnetic Field Models

Author: Gwenael Giacinti
Subjects: Physics, Field (physics), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Isotropy, Flux, Cosmic ray, Diffusion (business), Anisotropy, Computational physics, Coherence length, Magnetic field
Abstract: We calculate numerically the parallel and perpendicular diffusion coefficients of cosmic-rays (CR) propagating in regular and turbulent magnetic fields. For isotropic turbulence, and in the absence of any strong regular field, CRs would reside too long in the Galactic disc and overproduce secondary nuclei like boron for any reasonable value of the coherence length and strength of the turbulent field. We conclude that the propagation of Galactic CRs has to be strongly anisotropic because of a sufficiently strong regular field and, or because of an anisotropy in the turbulent field. As a consequence, the number of sources contributing to the local CR flux is found to be reduced by about two orders of magnitude compared to the case of isotropic CR diffusion.
Published: 2019
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48. An undiscovered pulsar in the Local Bubble as anexplanation of the local high energy cosmic rayall-electron spectrum

Author: Jim Hinton, Gwenael Giacinti, Ruben Lopez-Coto, and D. Parsons
Subjects: Physics, education.field_of_study, COSMIC cancer database, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Pulsar wind nebula, Interstellar medium, Local Bubble, Pulsar, Diffusion (business), education, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: Cosmic ray electrons and positrons are tracers of particle propagation in the interstellar medium (ISM). A recent measurement performed using H.E.S.S. extends the all-electron (electron+positron) spectrum up to 20 TeV, probing very local sources and transport due to the 10 kyr cooling time of these particles. An additional key local measurement was the recent estimation of the ISM diffusion coefficient around Geminga performed using HAWC. The inferred diffusion coefficient is much lower than typically assumed values. It has been argued that if this diffusion coefficient is representative of the local ISM, pulsars would not be able to account for the all-electron spectrum measured at the Earth. Here we show that a low diffusion coefficient in the local ISM is compatible with a pulsar wind nebula origin of the highest energy electrons, if a so far undiscovered pulsar with spin-down power ~10^34 erg/s exists within 30 to 80 pc of the Earth. The existence of such a pulsar is broadly consistent with the known population and may be detected in near future survey observations.
Published: 2019
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49. TeV-PeV Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy and Local Interstellar Turbulence

Author: John G. Kirk and Gwenael Giacinti
Subjects: Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), History, Turbulence, Field line, Theoretische Astrophysik - Abteilung Hinton, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Isotropy, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Resonance (particle physics), Computer Science Applications, Education, Magnetic field, Dipole, Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Anisotropy
Abstract: We calculate the shape of the large-scale anisotropy of TeV-PeV cosmic-rays (CR) in different models of the interstellar turbulence. In general, the large-scale CR anisotropy (CRA) is not a dipole, and its shape can be used as a new probe of the turbulence. The 400 TeV and 2 PeV data sets of IceTop can be fitted with Goldreich-Sridhar turbulence and a broad resonance function, but other possibilities are not excluded. We then present our first numerical calculations of the CRA down to 3 TeV energies in 3D isotropic Kolmogorov turbulence. At these low energies, the large-scale CRA aligns well with the direction of local magnetic field lines around the observer. In this type of turbulence, the CR intensity is flat in a broad region perpendicular to field lines. Even though the CRA is quite gyrotropic, we show that the local configuration of the turbulence around the observer does result in the appearance of weak, "non-gyrotropic" small-scale anisotropies, which contain information on the local turbulence level., Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Talk presented at the 26th Extended European Cosmic Ray Symposium, Barnaul, July 2018
Published: 2019

50. Inductive acceleration of ions in Poynting-flux dominated outflows

Author: Gwenael Giacinti and John G. Kirk
Subjects: Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Theoretische Astrophysik - Abteilung Hinton, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electron, Kinetic energy, 01 natural sciences, Omega, Neutron star, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Poynting vector, Atomic physics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Energy (signal processing), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Lepton
Abstract: Two-fluid (electron-positron) plasma modelling has shown that inductive acceleration can convert Poynting flux directly into bulk kinetic energy in the relativistic flows driven by rotating magnetized neutron stars and black holes. Here, we generalize this approach by adding an ion fluid. Solutions are presented in which all particles are accelerated as the flow expands, with comparable power channeled into each of the plasma components. In an ion-dominated flow, each species reaches the limiting rigidity, according to Hillas' criterion, in a distance significantly shorter than in a lepton-dominated flow. These solutions support the hypothesis that newly born magnetars and pulsars are potential sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The competing process of Poynting flux dissipation by magnetic reconnection is shown to be ineffective in low-density flows in which the conventionally defined electron multiplicity satisfies $\kappa_{\rm e}\lesssim 10^5\left(4\pi L_{38}/\Omega\right)^{1/4} /\textrm{Max}\left(\eta_{\rm ion}^{1/2},1\right)$, where $L_{38}\times 10^{38}\textrm{erg s}^{-1}$ is the power carried by the flow in a solid angle $\Omega$, and $\eta_{\rm ion}$ is the ratio of the ion to lepton power at launch., Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2019
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