PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 301 - 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017) - Session Gamma-Ray Astronomy. GA-extra-galactic
Results from the first one and a half years of the HAWC GRB program
J. Wood*  on behalf of the HAWC Collaboration
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Pre-published on: August 16, 2017
Published on: August 03, 2018
Abstract
The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is a ground-based
TeV gamma-ray observatory in the state of Puebla, Mexico at an altitude of 4100 m
above sea level. Its $\sim$22,000 m$^2$ instrumented area, wide field of view (2 sr),
and $>$95% uptime make it an ideal instrument for discovering gamma-ray burst (GRB)
emission at $>$100 GeV. Such a discovery would provide key information about the
origins of prompt GRB emission as well as constraints on extra-galactic background light models and the violation
of Lorentz invariance. We present here the results of our current GRB search methods,
which include an all-sky search as well as fast follow-ups of GRBs reported by satellites,
after one and a half years of data with the full HAWC detector.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.301.0619
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