Contribution
Implementation of a hybrid system for the detection of high energy gamma rays with the compact IACTs HAWC’s Eye and the HAWC observatory for high energy gamma rays.
Speakers
- Mr. José Erandi SERNA FRANCO
Primary authors
- Mr. José Erandi SERNA FRANCO (IF-UNAM)
Co-authors
- Dr. Ruben ALFARO (IFUNAM)
- Mr. Jan AUDEHM (RWTH Aachen University)
- Mrs. Giang DO (RWTH Aachen University)
- Mr. Florian REBEIHN (RWTH Aachen University)
- Mr. Merlin SCHAUFEL (RWTH Aachen University)
- Mr. Alberto MALDONADO (Instituto Politécnico Nacional)
- Mr. Miguel MARTÍNEZ (Instituto Politécnico Nacional)
- Dr. Maria Magdalena GONZALEZ SANCHEZ (Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
- Mr. Yunior Frainen PÉREZ ARAUJO (IAUNAM)
- Dr. Ibrahim TORRES (INAOE)
- Dr. Jesus MARTINEZ (Instituto Politecnico Nacional)
- Mr. Oscar CHAPARRO (IPN)
- Mr. Jose Andres GARCIA GONZALEZ (IF-UNAM)
- Mr. Arturo IRIARTE (Institute of Astronomy)
- Dr. Thomas BRETZ (RWTH Aachen University)
Content
The development of detection techniques in high-energy astrophysics is advancing rapidly, but each observational methodology has inherent advantages and disadvantages. For this reason, the idea of establishing a hybrid system opens the doors to more precise and complete detection techniques. By combining observations made with a pair of compact IACTs called HAWC’s Eye in combination with the detections of an extended surface array such as the HAWC high energy gamma ray observatory, an attempt will be made to improve the range of detected energies as well as improving the resolution of observed events. In December 2019, an observation campaign was carried out, to analyze and compare the data against the simulations, in this way the instrument was characterized in order to implement it in the HAWC observatory and have a hybrid detection system.