Observation of the Crab Nebula with the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory

U. Abeysekara, A.; Albert, A.; Alfaro, R.; Álvarez, C.; D. Álvarez, J.; Arceo, R.; C. Arteaga‐Velázquez, J.; A. Ayala Solares, H.; S. Barber, A.; Bautista-Elivar, N.; Becerril, A.; Moreno, E.; BenZvi, S.; Berley, D.; Braun, J.; Brisbois, C.; S. Caballero‐Mora, K.; Capistrán, T.; Carramiñana, A.; Casanova, S.; Castillo, M.; Cotti, U.; Cotzomi, J.; Coutinõ de León, S.; De la Fuente, E.; de León, C.; DeYoung, T.; L. Dingus, B.; A. DuVernois, M.; C. Díaz–Vélez, J.; W. Ellsworth, R.; W. Fiorino, D.; Fraija, N.; A. García-González, J.; Gerhardt, M.; González Munöz, A.; M. González, M.; A. Goodman, J.; Hampel-Arias, Z.; P. Harding, J.; Hernández, S.; Hernández-Almada, A.; A. Hinton, J.; M. Hui, C.; Hüntemeyer, P.; Iriarte, A.; Jardin-Blicq, A.; Joshi, Vikas; Kaufmann, S.; Kieda, D.; Lara, A.; Lauer, R.; H. Lee, William; Lennarz, D.; León Vargas, H.; Linnemann, J.; L. Longinotti, A.; Luis-Raya, G.; Luna-García, R.; López-Coto, R.; Malone, K.; S. Marinelli, S.; Martı́nez, O.; Martínez-Castellanos, I.; Martínez-Castro, J.; Martínez-Huerta, H.; Matthews, J.; Miranda-Romagnoli, P.; Moreno, E.; Mostafá, M.; Nellen, L.; Newbold, M.; U. Nisa, M.; Noriega-Papaqui, R.; Pelayo, Rodrigo; Pretz, J.; G. Pérez‐Pérez, E.; Ren, Zhixiang; Dong Rho, Chang; Rivière, C.; Rosa‐González, D.; Rosenberg, M.; Ruiz-Velasco, E.; Salazar, H.; Salesa Greus, F.; Sandoval, A.; Schneider, M.; Schoorlemmer, Harm; Sinnis, G.; J. Smith, A.; W. Springer, R.; Surajbali, P.; Taboada, I.; Tibolla, O.; Tollefson, Kirsten; Torres, I.; N. Ukwatta, T.; Villaseñor, L.; Weisgarber, T.; Westerhoff, S.; G. Wisher, I.; Wood, J.; Yapici, T.; B. Yodh, G.; Younk, P.; Zepeda, A.; Zhou, H.

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa7555

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Observation of the Crab Nebula with the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory

Published in The Astrophysical Journal • Jun 29, 2017

Authors:

A. U. Abeysekara

A. Albert

R. Alfaro

Abstract

Abstract The Crab Nebula is the brightest TeV gamma-ray source in the sky and has been used for the past 25 years as a reference source in TeV astronomy, for calibration and verification of new TeV instruments. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC), completed in early 2015, has been u...

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Crab Nebula

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