The Short GAmma Ray Front Air Cherenkov Experiment (SGARFACE) is operated at the Whipple Observatory utilizing the Whipple 10m gamma-ray telescope. SGARFACE is sensitive to gamma-ray bursts of more than 100MeV with durations from 100ns to 35us and provides a fluence sensitivity as low as 0.8 gamma-rays per m^2 above 200MeV (0.05 gamma-rays per m^2 above 2GeV) and allows to record the burst time structure.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0501199,
title = {SGARFACE: A Novel Detector For Microsecond Gamma Ray Bursts},
author = {S. LeBohec and F. Krennrich and G. Sleege},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0501199},
year = {2009}
}
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29 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics