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A Survey of the Northern Sky for TeV Point Sources

Astrophysics 2009-11-06 v3

Abstract

A search for steady TeV point sources anywhere in the northern sky has been made with data from the Milagrito air-shower-particle detector. Over 3 x 10**9 events collected from 1997 February to 1998 May have been used in this study. No statistically significant excess above the background from the isotropic flux of cosmic rays was found for any direction of the sky with declination between -5 degrees and 71.7 degrees. Upper limits are derived for the photon flux above 1 TeV from any steady point source in the northern sky.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0103353,
  title  = {A Survey of the Northern Sky for TeV Point Sources},
  author = {K. Wang and R. Atkins and W. Benbow and D. Berley and M. -L. Chen and D. G. Coyne and The Milagro Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0103353},
  year   = {2009}
}

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