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使用HAWC在数小时长的时间尺度上监测TeV天空

Monitoring the TeV sky on hours long timescales with HAWC

Israel Martinez-Castellanos

摘要:

高海拔水切伦科夫天文台(HAWC)是一个大视场($\sim$ 2 sr)仪器,对极高能伽马射线($\sim$ 0.5- 100 TeV)敏感。它位于墨西哥中部(19 $^\circ$ N),具有高占空比($\sim$ 95%)。这些特性使它能够持续监测$\sim$ 2/3的天空,寻找瞬态事件,如活动星系核的耀斑或其他可能的未知现象。这里介绍的是一个无偏见的实时监测小时的时间尺度,提供每日通量测量的所有位置在我们可观察的天空后,立即离开我们的视野。然后,这些测量值用于跟踪已知的TeV源并执行盲搜索。从这些分析中产生的警报,其中一些已经通过天文学家的电报公开,可以触发小视场仪器,使其在高状态活动期间能够对源进行深入观察,这可以限制加速机制。此外,这些测量使我们能够快速响应外部警报。

英文摘要:

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is a large field of view ($\sim$2sr) instrument sensitive to very-high energy gamma rays ($\sim$0.5-100TeV). It is located in central Mexico (19$^\circ$N) and has a high duty cycle ($\sim$95%). These characteristics allow it to continuously monitor $\sim$2/3 of the sky, looking for transient events, such as flares from Active Galactic Nuclei or possibly other unknown phenomena. Presented here is an unbiased real-time monitoring on hours timescales which provides daily flux measurements for all locations in our observable sky promptly after they leave our field of view. These measurements are then used to follow known TeV sources and to perform a blind search. The alerts generated from these analyses, some of which have been made public through the Astronomer's Telegraph, can trigger small field of view instruments, enabling deep observations of sources during their high state activity which can constrain acceleration mechanisms. Additionally, these measurements allow us to respond quickly to external alerts.

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