3HWC: The Third HAWC Catalog of Very-high-energy Gamma-Ray Sources
Abstract
We present a new catalog of TeV gamma-ray sources using 1523 days of data from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory. The catalog represents the most sensitive survey of the northern gamma-ray sky at energies above several TeV, with three times the exposure compared to the previous HAWC catalog, 2HWC. We report 65 sources detected at ≥5σ significance, along with the positions and spectral fits for each source. The catalog contains eight sources that have no counterpart in the 2HWC catalog, but are within 1° of previously detected TeV emitters, and 20 sources that are more than 1° away from any previously detected TeV source. Of these 20 new sources, 14 have a potential counterpart in the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog of gamma-ray sources. We also explore potential associations of 3HWC sources with pulsars in the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) pulsar catalog and supernova remnants in the Galactic supernova remnant catalog.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2007.08582
- Bibcode:
- 2020ApJ...905...76A
- Keywords:
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- Gamma-ray astronomy;
- Gamma-ray observatories;
- High energy astrophysics;
- Cosmic ray sources;
- 628;
- 632;
- 739;
- 328;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 20 pages, 11 figures. Matches the version published in The Astrophysical Journal. See accompanying data release at https://data.hawc-observatory.org/datasets/3hwc-survey/index.php