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LOCATION:2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
SUMMARY:Multiwavelength Astronomy\, the Origin of Cosmic Rays\, and th
 e  HAWC Observatory\, Physics Department Colloquium\, Petra Hünteme
 yer\, Michigan Technological University
DESCRIPTION:Currently\, the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov or HAWC Obse
 rvatory is being built at a site about a two hours drive east of Puebl
 a\, Mexico\, on the Sierra Negra plateau (4100 m a.s.l.).  As an all-s
 ky instrument HAWC is particularly well suited to measure extended and
  large scale structures in the sky like galactic diffuse gamma-ray emi
 ssion\, or large and small-scale anisotropies. In addition\, discoveri
 es of other extended unidentified objects at TeV energies\, for exampl
 e collocated with the aEurooeFermi BubblesaEuro\, are possible. In rec
 ent years\, researchers have focused their attention increasingly on t
 he combination of sky measurements in different wavebands of the elect
 romagnetic spectrum. The construction of HAWC funded through NSF\, DoE
 \, and CONACyT is expected to be completed by Fall 2014. Data is alrea
 dy being collected during construction with an increasingly sensitive 
 detector allowing for synchronous observations with instruments at oth
 er wavebands such as the Fermi Space Telescopes. I will present scient
 ific potential - especially within the context of multiwavelength astr
 onomy and its relevance to the cosmic-ray origin - and first results o
 f the experiment.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=3024
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