Particle and Astroparticle Physics Seminar

HAWC's view of the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky

Henrike Fleischhack

Michigan Tech

The HAWC (High-Altitude Water Cherenkov) Observatory is a wide-field very-high-energy (E>100 GeV) gamma-ray observatory located on Sierra Negra, Mexico. It has been taking data almost continuously for more than three years, and has detected gamma-ray emission from more than 40 sources, most of which are located within our own Galaxy. Recent improvements in the energy reconstruction have enabled the HAWC collaboration to present the first large-scale gamma-ray survey above 100 TeV. In this presentation, I will present recent results from the HAWC experiment, focusing in particular on Galactic objects: Supernova remnants, extended emission around pulsars, pevatron candidates, and the microquasar SS433. I will also present upgrades to the HAWC detector (currently in progress) as well as plans for future-generation instrumentation.