THE HIGH ALTITUDE GAMMA RAY OBSERVATORY, HAWC

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作者：

Gonzalez, M. M. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Astron, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico

来源：

XIII LATIN AMERICAN REGIONAL IAU MEETING | 2011年 / 40卷

关键词：

acceleration of particles; cosmic rays; gamma rays: general; intrumentation: detectors;

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中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The Volcano Sierra Negra in Puebla, Mexico was selected to host HAWC (High Altitude Water Cherenkov), a unique obervatory of wide field of view (2 pi sr) capable of observing the sky continously at energies from 0.5 TeV to 100 TeV. HAWC is an array of 300 large water tanks (7.3 m diameter x 5 m depth) at an altitude of 4100 m. a. s. l. Each tank is instrumented with three upward-looking photomultipliers tubes. The full array will be capable of observing the most energetic gamma rays from the most violent events in the universe. HAWC will be 15 times more sensitive than its predecesor, Milagro. We present HAWC, the scientific case and capabilities.

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