Speaker
Ignacio Taboada
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Description
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a ground based very
high-energy gamma ray detector under construction in Mexico at an altitude of 4100 m.
Higher altitude, improved design and a larger physical area used for triggering and
background discrimination makes HAWC 15 times more
sensitive to Crab-like spectra than its predecessor Milagro. HAWC's large field of
view (~2sr) and near 100% duty cycle make it ideal to search for transient sources
such as AGNs and GRBs as well as to conduct unbiased surveys of galactic and
extragalactic over a large fraction of the sky. The status of the HAWC project and
its scientific prospects will be discussed.
Primary author
Ignacio Taboada
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Co-author
Collaboraion HAWC
(Sierra Negra, Mexico)
