Particle Astrophysics with HAWC

粒子天体物理学与 HAWC

• 批准号: 1308033
• 负责人: Jordan Goodman
• 金额: $ 140.7万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1308033&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Particle; Astrophysics; HAWC

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-ray Observatory is a wide field-of-view, continuously operating, teraelectronvolt (TeV) gamma-ray telescope that will explore the origin of cosmic rays, study the acceleration of particles in extreme physical environments, and search for new TeV physics. When HAWC begins operations in August 2013 with 100 Water Cherenkov Detectors it will be the most sensitive wide-field detector in the TeV range, with an approximately five times increase in sensitivity over the previous generation of detectors. During the first year of operation, HAWC's sensitivity will steadily increase as the full 250 detectors are gradually brought online. HAWC will monitor the northern sky and make coincident observations with other observatories including VERITAS, HESS, Magic, IceCube and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope for multi-wavelength and multi-messenger studies of the high-energy sky. HAWC will observe Galactic sources in the TeV energy range, detect diffuse emission from regions of the Galactic plane, observe known TeV active galactic nuclei and the brightest known gigaelectronvolt (GeV) gamma-ray bursts, and with its significant increase in sensitivity it is poised to discover new high-energy phenomena in the Universe.The University of Maryland group has a significant leadership role in HAWC. This award will enable the University of Maryland group to continue work in the construction, operation and science of HAWC including reconstruction and simulation software, maintenance of the multi-Petabyte data archive, and science analysis.Broader Impacts: HAWC is an all-sky instrument that will serve as a TeV "finder" telescope for ground-based observatories, and it can be used to extend measurements of satellite-discovered sources to TeV energies. HAWC will build on the strong outreach record of Milagro to bring this exciting field of research to students and the general public. Since HAWC is a joint Mexican-American project, it presents an opportunity to attract Hispanic-American students to science and astroparticle physics.

高空水切伦科夫（HAWC）伽马射线天文台是广泛的视野，连续运行，teraelectronvolt（TEV）伽马射线望远镜，将探索宇宙射线的起源，研究极端环境中颗粒的加速度，并寻找新的Tev物理学。 当HAWC于2013年8月开始使用100个Water Cherenkov探测器开始操作时，它将是TEV范围内最敏感的广阔探测器，比上一代探测器的灵敏度大约增加了五倍。 在操作的第一年，随着完整的250个检测器逐渐在线上，HAWC的敏感性将稳步提高。 HAWC将监视北方的天空，并与其他观测值进行一致的观测，包括Veritas，Hess，Magic，Icecube和Fermi Gamma-Ray太空望远镜，用于多波长和多通信的高能量天空。 HAWC将在TEV能量范围内观察银河系来源，检测来自银河平面区域的扩散发射，观察到已知的TEV活跃的银河系核和最鲜明的已知的GigaelectRonvolt（GEV）伽马射线爆发，并且具有显着的敏感性，它可以发现新的高级势头在玛丽·安斯特（Hear in ncoriese）中，可以发现新的高级势头。 This award will enable the University of Maryland group to continue work in the construction, operation and science of HAWC including reconstruction and simulation software, maintenance of the multi-Petabyte data archive, and science analysis.Broader Impacts: HAWC is an all-sky instrument that will serve as a TeV "finder" telescope for ground-based observatories, and it can be used to extend measurements of satellite-discovered sources to TeV energies. HAWC将基于Milagro的强大外展记录，将这一激动人心的研究领域带给学生和公众。 由于HAWC是一个联合墨西哥裔美国人项目，因此它为吸引西班牙裔美国人的学生提供了科学和Astroparpicle物理学的机会。