PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 301 - 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017) - Session Gamma-Ray Astronomy. GA-extra-galactic
X-ray/gamma-ray flux correlations in the BL Lacs Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 using HAWC data
J.A. Garcia-Gonzalez*, M.M. Gonzalez, N. Fraija  on behalf of the HAWC Collaboration
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Pre-published on: August 18, 2017
Published on: August 03, 2018
Abstract
The HAWC gamma ray observatory is located at the Sierra Negra Volcano in Puebla, Mexico at an altitude of 4,100 meters. HAWC is a wide field of view array of 300 water Cherenkov detectors that are continuously surveying ~ 2sr of the sky, operating since March 2015. The large collected data sample allows HAWC to perform an unbiased monitoring of the BL Lac Mrk 421. This is the closest and brightest known extragalactic high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lac in the gamma-ray/X- ray bands and are extensively monitored by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi satellite, and the BAT and XRT instruments of the Swift satellite. In this work, we use 25 months of HAWC data together with Swift-XRT data for Mrk 421 to characterize potential correlations between both wavelengths. This analysis shows that HAWC and Swift-XRT data are correlated even stronger than expected for quasi simultaneous observations.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.301.0624
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