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X-ray/gamma-ray flux correlations in the BL Lacs Mrk 421 and 501 using HAWC data
The HAWC gamma ray observatory is located at the Sierra Negra Volcano in
Puebla, Mexico, at an altitude of 4,100 meters. HAWC is a wide field of view
array of 300 water Cherenkov detectors that are continuously surveying ~ 2sr of
the sky, operating since March 2015. The large collected data sample allows
HAWC to perform an unbiased monitoring of the BL Lac Mrk 421. This is the
closest and brightest known extragalactic high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lac in the
gamma-ray/X- ray bands and is extensively monitored by the Large Area Telescope
(LAT) on-board the Fermi satellite, and the BAT and XRT instruments of the
Swift satellite. In this work, we use 25 months of HAWC data together with
Swift-XRT data to characterize potential correlations between both wavelengths.
This analysis shows that HAWC and Swift-XRT data are correlated even stronger
than expected for quasi-simultaneous observations.Comment: Presented at the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017),
Bexco, Busan, Korea. See arXiv:1708.02572 for all HAWC contribution
Computational thinking and robotics in education
After the computational thinking sessions in the previous 2016-2018 editions of TEEM Conference, the fourth edition of this track has been organized in the current 2019 edition. Computational thinking is still a very significant topic, especially, but not only, in pre-university education. In this edition, the robotic has a special role in the track, with a strength relationship with the STEM and
STEAM education of children at the pre-university levels, seeding the future of our society
Present and future of the OTELO project
OTELO is an emission-line object survey carried out with the red tunable
filter of the instrument OSIRIS at the GTC, whose aim is to become the deepest
emission-line object survey to date. With 100% of the data of the first
pointing finally obtained in June 2014, we present here some aspects of the
processing of the data and the very first results of the OTELO survey. We also
explain the next steps to be followed in the near future.Comment: Oral contribution presented in the XI Scientific Meeting of the
Spanish Astronomical Society held on September 8-12, in Teruel, Spain (7
pages, 2 figures, 1 table). To appear in Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics
VIII, Proceedings of the XI Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical
Society. Eds. A. J. Cenarro, F. Figueras, C. Hern\'andez-Monteagudo, J.
Trujillo, L. Valdiviels
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