Status of the Milagro Gamma Ray Observatory
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The Milagro Gamma Ray Observatory is the world's first large-area water Cherenkov detector capable of continuously monitoring the sky at TeV energies. Located in northern New Mexico, Milagro will perform an all sky survey of the Northern Hemisphere at energies between ~250 GeV and 50 TeV. With a high duty cycle, large detector area (~5000 square meters), and a wide field-of-view (~1 sr), Milagro is uniquely capable of searching for transient and DC sources of high-energy gamma-ray emission. Milagro has been operating since February, 1999. The current status of the Milagro Observatory and initial results will be discussed.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9906383,
title = {Status of the Milagro Gamma Ray Observatory},
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/9906383},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, submitted to XXVI International Cosmic Ray Conference, Salt Lake City