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Seminars and Colloquia
Results from the first year of data taking of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory.
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Description
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is an all-sky surveying instrument sensitive to gamma rays and cosmic rays from 100GeV to 100TeV with a 2sr instantaneous field of view and a duty cycle of >95%. The observatory is carrying out an unbiased survey of the Northern sky, and is particular suited to search for flares and other transient sources of gamma rays, and to observe spatially extended regions of gamma-ray emission and cosmic-ray anisotropy. Operation began mid-2013 with the partially-completed detector. We will present the science targets of HAWC, summarize the status of the experiment, and highlight its scientific results, such as the survey of the Galactic Plane at multi-TeV energies, confirming a number of known TeV sources and discovering new sources, and the long-term monitoring of a number of AGN.
