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VERITAS and Fermi-LAT Observations of TeV Gamma-Ray Sources Discovered by HAWC in the 2HWC Catalog

  • A. U. Abeysekara
    ,
  • A. Archer
    ,
  • W. Benbow
    ,
  • R. Bird
    ,
  • R. Brose
    ,
  • M. Buchovecky
  • University of Utah
    ,
  • Washington University St. Louis
    ,
  • Harvard & Smithsonian
    ,
  • University of California at Los Angeles
    ,
  • German Electron Synchrotron
    ,
  • University of Potsdam
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Abstract

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) collaboration recently published their 2HWC catalog, listing 39 very high energy (VHE; >100 GeV) gamma-ray sources based on 507 days of observation. Among these, 19 sources are not associated with previously known teraelectronvolt (TeV) gamma-ray sources. We have studied 14 of these sources without known counterparts with VERITAS and Fermi-LAT. VERITAS detected weak gamma-ray emission in the 1 TeV-30 TeV band in the region of DA 495, a pulsar wind nebula coinciding with 2HWC J1953+294, confirming the discovery of the source by HAWC. We did not find any counterpart for the selected 14 new HAWC sources from our analysis of Fermi-LAT data for energies higher than 10 GeV. During the search, we detected gigaelectronvolt (GeV) gamma-ray emission coincident with a known TeV pulsar wind nebula, SNR G54.1+0.3 (VER J1930+188), and a 2HWC source, 2HWC J1930+188. The fluxes for isolated, steady sources in the 2HWC catalog are generally in good agreement with those measured by imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. However, the VERITAS fluxes for SNR G54.1+0.3, DA 495, and TeV J2032+4130 are lower than those measured by HAWC, and several new HAWC sources are not detected by VERITAS. This is likely due to a change in spectral shape, source extension, or the influence of diffuse emission in the source region.

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Astrophysical Journal (Volume 866, Issue 1)

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  • Published - 10/10/2018

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Published - 10/10/2018

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0004-637X

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  • Scopus: 85055336695

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109 Funded by contract FIRB-2012-RBFR12PM1F from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR). The HAWC Collaboration acknowledges support from the US National Science Foundation (NSF); the US Department of Energy Office of High-Energy Physics; the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program of Los Alamos National Laboratory; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT), México (grants 271051, 232656, 260378, 179588, 239762, 254964, 271737, 258865, 243290, 132197); Labor-atorio Nacional HAWC de Rayos Gamma; L’Oreal Fellowship for Women in Science 2014; Red HAWC, México; DGAPA-UNAM (grants IG100317, IN111315, IN111716-3, IA102715, 109916, IA102917); VIEP-BUAP; PIFI 2012, 2013, PROFO-CIE 2014, 2015; the University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation; the Institute of Geophysics, Planetary Physics, and Signatures at Los Alamos National Laboratory; Polish Science Centre grant DEC-2014/13/B/ST9/945; and Coordinación de la Investigación Científica de la Universidad Michoacana. Thanks to Luciano Díaz and Eduardo Murrieta for technical support. The VERITAS Collaboration is supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution, and by NSERC in Canada. We acknowledge the excellent work of the technical support staff at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory and at the collaborating institutions in the construction and operation of the instrument. The Fermi-LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifi-que/Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K.A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. This work was performed in part under DOE contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
FundersFunding numbers
Coordinación de la Investigación Científica de la Universidad Michoacana
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Institute of Geophysics
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K.A. Wallenberg Foundation
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Planetary Physics
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Polish Science Centre
DEC-2014/13/B/ST9/945
US Department of Energy Office of High-Energy Physics
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University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
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VIEP-BUAP
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NSF
1707544, 1806798, 1807029, 1806554, 1707432, 1806560, 1707551
NSF
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SI
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USDOE
DE-AC02-76SF00515
USDOE
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SC
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LDRD
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LANL
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NSERC
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MEXT
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SNSA
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CONACYT
239762, 271051, 254964, 258865, 260378, 132197, 179588, 232656, 243290, 271737
CONACYT
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MIUR
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ASI
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INFN
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JAXA
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VR
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DGAPA, UNAM
IA102917, IA102715, IN111716-3, 109916, IN111315, IG100317
DGAPA, UNAM
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CEA
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KEK
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IN2P3
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