2019/08/16 by Israel Martinez-Castellanos, Martinez-Castellanos, Israel
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1908.06122
openalex publication_date 2019/08/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is a large field of view\n(~2 sr) continuously operating experiment sensitive to very-high energy (VHE)\ngamma rays (~0.3-100 TeV). These characteristics make it well suited for\nobserving or constraining the VHE emission of rapid transients such as some\ngravitational waves progenitors. Of special interest are the events at low\nredshift where the attenuation due to the extragalactic background light is\nminimal. This is the case for binary neutron star mergers in the horizon of the\nLIGO and Virgo experiments, for which HAWC can either detect or place\nconstraining limits on events occurring in our field of view. We report on our\nsearch for counterparts of the gravitational waves detected by LIGO and Virgo.\n