HAWC News
HAWC Collaborators Test Full Tank Design
HAWC Collaborators have tested a design for the HAWC tanks using a 24-foot commercial steel water tank lined with a plastic bladder. This tank design represents the first successful full-scale test.
HAWC Collaborators have tested a design for the HAWC tanks using a 24-foot commercial steel water tank lined with a plastic bladder. This tank design represents the first successful full-scale test.
Monday October 19, 2009
Milagro Detects TeV Emission from Sources in the Fermi Bright Source List
The 14 Fermi sources observed at 3σ or more in the Milagro data. Shown is the Milagro
significance map with the location of the Fermi source indicated with white dots.
The Fermi collaboration has recently announced a list of the 205 most significant sources. The figure shows the 14 Fermi sources which are observed at more than 3σ in the Milagro data. A preprint for the paper is available on the arXiv. This is encouraging for HAWC because all of these detections are visible in HAWC with only a few months of data. This suggests that there is a lot of interesting sources just waiting at the edge of Milagro's sensitivity for HAWC to explore.
The 14 Fermi sources observed at 3σ or more in the Milagro data. Shown is the Milagro
significance map with the location of the Fermi source indicated with white dots.
The Fermi collaboration has recently announced a list of the 205 most significant sources. The figure shows the 14 Fermi sources which are observed at more than 3σ in the Milagro data. A preprint for the paper is available on the arXiv. This is encouraging for HAWC because all of these detections are visible in HAWC with only a few months of data. This suggests that there is a lot of interesting sources just waiting at the edge of Milagro's sensitivity for HAWC to explore.
Monday April 6, 2009
The First HAWC Event
The first HAWC event. Shown
is the digitized waveform in
time recorded from the 3
prototype tanks.
With three test tanks deployed at the HAWC site, Andres Sandoval has led a team to deploy a small DAQ and acquire cosmic-ray data with the small array. Data was taken with a commercial FADC with 0.5 ns time binning. The figure is the first event taken with the system. We certainly have a long way to go, but it is refreshing to have the first data.
The first HAWC event. Shown
is the digitized waveform in
time recorded from the 3
prototype tanks.
With three test tanks deployed at the HAWC site, Andres Sandoval has led a team to deploy a small DAQ and acquire cosmic-ray data with the small array. Data was taken with a commercial FADC with 0.5 ns time binning. The figure is the first event taken with the system. We certainly have a long way to go, but it is refreshing to have the first data.
Sunday March 15, 2009
The Second HAWC Tank
The second tank of the nano-HAWC array was installed today at the top of La Negra. In the left side you can see the third tank.
The second tank of the nano-HAWC array was installed today at the top of La Negra. In the left side you can see the third tank.
Tuesday January 27, 2009
Older News
Steel Tank Trials Wednesday December 3, 2008Milagro Cosmic-Ray Localized Excess in the Popular Press Monday November 24, 2008
The First HAWC Tank Tuesday November 11, 2008
HAWC Collaboration Meeting October 27-30 Tuesday October 27, 2008
HAWC Receives MRI Funding Friday July 17, 2008
HAWC Proposal submitted to the NSF Tuesday January 15, 2008
HAWC Site is Sierra Negra, Mexico Monday July 9, 2007