{
  "id": "1509.07851",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-09-25T19:39:27.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-09-25T19:39:27.000Z",
  "title": "Highlights from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory",
  "authors": [
    "John Pretz",
    "for the HAWC Collaboration"
  ],
  "comment": "Presented at the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), The Hague, The Netherlands. See arXiv:1508.03327 for all HAWC contributions",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory was completed this year at a 4100-meter site on the flank of the Sierra Negra volcano in Mexico. HAWC is a water Cherenkov ground array with the capability to distinguish 100 GeV - 100 TeV gamma rays from the hadronic cosmic-ray background. HAWC is uniquely suited to study extremely high energy cosmic-ray sources, search for regions of extended gamma-ray emission, and to identify transient gamma-ray phenomena. HAWC will play a key role in triggering multi-wavelength and multi-messenger studies of active galaxies, gamma-ray bursts, supernova remnants and pulsar wind nebulae. Observation of TeV photons also provide unique tests for a number of fundamental physics phenomena including dark matter annihilation and primordial black hole evaporation. Operation began mid-2013 with the partially-completed detector. Multi-TeV emission from the Galactic Plane is clearly seen in the first year of operation, confirming a number of known TeV sources, and a number of AGN have been observed. We discuss the science of HAWC, summarize the status of the experiment, and highlight first results from analysis of the data.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-09-25T19:39:27.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "high altitude water cherenkov observatory",
      "high energy cosmic-ray sources",
      "extremely high energy cosmic-ray"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1394847
    }
  }
}