Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares ☕️

Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares

Assistant Research Professor

The Pennsylvania State University

I’m an astrophysicist working at the Pennsylvania State University under my advisors Dr. Doug Cowen and Dr. Miguel Mostafa.

I’m involved in several projects related to high-energy astrophysics. I study high-energy gamma rays with the HAWC Observatory, located in Mexico; mostly involved with the search of gamma-ray emission from large structures.

Another project involves the observation of high-energy neutrinos using the IceCube Observatory located in the South Pole.

The third project is a multimessenger framework called AMON, which looks for coincidences of events obtained by different detectors or observatories. This is a pioneer project in the search of multimessenger sources.

I earned my PhD at Michigan Technological University. My thesis was about observations of high-energy gamma-rays from the Northern Fermi Bubble Region with the HAWC Observatory, advised by Dr. Petra Huentemeyer.

Besides science and research, I like spending my time by exercising, playing music or dancing.

Skills

C++

100%

Python

100%

Statistics

100%

Git

90%

Overleaf/Latex

100%

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Research Professor
The Pennsylvania State University
January 2022 – Present Pennsylania

Member of HAWC, IceCube and AMON Responsibilities include:

  • Software development and maintance
  • Data Analysis
  • Monitoring or realtime alerts
  • Science coordinator of HAWC
  • Multiwavelength and Multimessenger coordinator in HAWC
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral Scholar
The Pennsylvania State University
May 2017 – January 2022 Pennsylvania
Member of HAWC, IceCube and AMON.
 
 
 
 
 
PhD Thesis Research
Michigan Technological University
September 2011 – April 2017

HAWC Researcher Responsabilities:

  • Calibration hardware and software
  • Algorithm to reconstruct events
  • Study of gamma-ray emission from the Fermi Bubbles
 
 
 
 
 
Research Intern at ITESM-Photonics and Mathematical Optics Group
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
January 2011 – July 2011 Monterrey, N.L., México
Work on Maxwell’s equations focusing on polarization of light in birefrigence media.
 
 
 
 
 
Summer Research Intern
Michigan Technological University
May 2010 – August 2010

Accomplish­ments

Swift Cycle 1r65 Guest Investigator Program
Apr 2020
Proposal with title Swift Follow-up Searches of Coincidences from the Neutrino + Gamma-Ray Program
Swift Cycle 15 Guest Investigator Program
Apr 2019
Proposal with title Swift Follow-up Searches of low false-alarm rate high-energy neutrino and gamma-ray coincidences
Coursera
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Coursera Oct 2018
Henes Fellowship Assistant Award
Michigan Technological University Jan 2017 – Apr 2017
Doctoral Finishing Fellowship Award
Michigan Technological University Sep 2016 – Dec 2016
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Michigan Technological University May 2012

Research

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All AMON HAWC SWGO
The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network
The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network
The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory
The HAWC Gamma-Ray observatory
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory
The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO)
The Southern Wide-field Gamma-Ray observatory
The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO)

Recent Publications

Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, HAWC Collaboration, ANTARES Collaboration, AMON Group (2022). Search for Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Coincidences Using HAWC and ANTARES Data. Astrophysical Journal.

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Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, HAWC Collaboration (2021). Probing the Sea of Cosmic Rays by Measuring Gamma-Ray Emission from Passive Giant Molecular Clouds with HAWC. The Astrophysical Journal.

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Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, HAWC Collaboration, IceCube Collaboration, AMON Group (2020). Multimessenger Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Coincidence Alerts Using HAWC and IceCube Subthreshold Data. Astrophysical Journal.

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Hugo A. Ayala Solares, for the HAWC Collaboration, for the IceCube Collaboration, for the AMON project (2019). AMON: TeV Gamma and Neutrino Coincidence Alerts from HAWC and IceCube subthreshold data.

Hugo A. Ayala Solares for the HAWC collaboration (2019). Studying Cosmic-ray Interactions in Giant Molecular Clouds with the HAWC Gamma-ray Observatory.

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Contact

  • hgayala@psu.edu
  • Davey Lab B19, University Park, PA 16802
  • Office 206A Osmond on second Floor