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The High Altitude Water Čerenkov observatory is a second generation ground based very high-energy γ-ray detector under construction in Sierra Negra, Puebla, México at an altitude of 4,100m. Higher altitude, improved design and a larger physical size used to reject cosmic ray background, make HAWC 10–20 times more sensitive than its predecessor Milagro. HAWC’s large field of view (∼2sr) and over 90% duty cycle make it ideal to search for several types of TeV astronomical γ-ray sources, diffuse emission, cosmic anisotropy, and transients. Details and status of HAWC at date, and a galactic star formation application are here presented.
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Technical details and preliminary first results are presented in Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on High-Energy γ-Ray Astronomy and Proceedings of the Fermi-Swift Conference on Gamma-Ray Bursts, 2012.
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de la Fuente, E., Oceguera–Becerra, T., García–Torales, G., García–Luna, J.L., The HAWC Collaboration. (2013). The High Altitude Water Čerenkov (HAWC) TeV Gamma Ray Observatory. In: Torres, D., Reimer, O. (eds) Cosmic Rays in Star-Forming Environments. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35410-6_32
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