Milagrito Detection of TeV Emission from Mrk 501
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The Milagro water Cherenkov detector near Los Alamos, New Mexico, has been operated as a sky monitor at energies of a few TeV between February 1997 and April 1998. Serving as a test run for the full Milagro detector, Milagrito has taken data during the strong and long-lasting 1997 flare of Mrk 501. We present results from the analysis of Mrk 501 and compare the excess and background rates with expectations from the detector simulations.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9906384,
title = {Milagrito Detection of TeV Emission from Mrk 501},
author = {R. Atkins and W. Benbow and D. Berley and M. -L. Chen and D. G. Coyne and R. S. Delay and B. L. Dingus and D. E. Dorfan and R. W. Ellsworth and D. Evans and A. Falcone and L. Fleysher and R. Fleysher and G. Gisler and J. A. Goodman and T. J. Haines and C. M. Hoffman and S. Hugenberger and L. A. Kelley and I. Leonor and J. Macri and M. McConnell and J. F. McCullough and J. E. McEnery and R. S. Miller and A. I. Mincer and M. F. Morales and P. Nemethy and J. M. Ryan and M. Schneider and B. Shen and A. Shoup and G. Sinnis and A. J. Smith and G. W. Sullivan and T. N. Thompson and O. T. Tumer and K. Wang and M. O. Wascko and S. Westerhoff and D. A. Williams and T. Yang and G. B. Yodh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9906384},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, submitted to XXVI International Cosmic Ray Conference, Salt Lake City