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HAWC’s View of PWNe Above 100 TeV

Presentation #201.02 in the session Recent Advances in Pulsar Wind Nebulae.

Published onJul 01, 2023
HAWC’s View of PWNe Above 100 TeV

One of the more surprising astrophysical results of the last few years has been the discovery of a leptonic population of gamma-ray sources emitting above ~100 TeV. This emission is typically extended in nature and appears to be a universal feature near the most powerful pulsars. I will present recent results on ultra-high-energy PWN observed by the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory, which is an array of water Cherenkov Detectors located in Puebla, Mexico. HAWC has a high duty cycle (95%) and wide field-of-view (~2 sr) which makes it an optimal instrument for continuously monitoring the sky. The HAWC Collaboration recently finished re-reconstructing years of collected data with updated algorithms that increase the sensitivity of the experiment at the highest energies. These improvements have led to the discovery of more ultra-high-energy sources.

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