Searching for Very High Energy Emission from Pulsars Using the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory

Understand

There are currently over 160 known gamma-ray pulsars.

• While most of them are detected only from space, at least two are now seen also from the ground.
• MAGIC and VERITAS have measured the gamma ray pulsed emission of the Crab pulsar up to hundreds of GeV and more recently MAGIC has reported emission at $\sim2$ TeV.
• Furthermore, in the Southern Hemisphere, H.E.S.S.