Speaker
Dr
Robert Lauer
(University of New Mexico)
Description
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a wide field-of-view
gamma-ray detector that performs monitoring of two thirds of the sky
every day at energies between 0.1 and 100 TeV.
Operating in its full configuration since March 2015, with a duty cycle of
approximately 90%, HAWC has already accumulated an unprecedented data set of unbiased and
evenly sampled daily TeV light curves. We will discuss how we use these
results to characterize variability in various sources and focus on the study
of flux states for the Blazars Markarian 421 and Markarian 501.
With HAWC, we also monitor the gamma-ray flux of selected objects in near real time with
flare search algorithms running on the computing infrastructure at the HAWC
site. We have started to send out alerts for HAWC flare detections and followed
up on external alerts, for example neutrino triggers from
IceCube. We will present the highlights of these ongoing multi-wavelength and
multi-messenger monitoring efforts.
Primary author
Dr
Robert Lauer
(University of New Mexico)
