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Detection of thermal neutrons with the PRISMA-YBJ array in Extensive Air Showers selected by the ARGO-YBJ experiment

We report on a measurement of thermal neutrons, generated by the hadronic component of extensive air showers (EAS), by means of a small array of EN-detectors developed for the PRISMA project (PRImary Spectrum Measurement Array), novel…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-19 B. Bartoli , P. Bernardini , X. J. Bi , Z. Cao , S. Catalanotti , S. Z. Chen , T. L. Chen , S. W. Cui , B. Z. Dai , A. D'Amone , Danzengluobu , I. De Mitri , B. D'Ettorre Piazzoli , T. Di Girolamo , G. Di Sciascio , C. F. Feng , Zhaoyang Feng , Zhenyong Feng , Q. B. Gou , Y. Q. Guo , H. H. He , Haibing Hu , Hongbo Hu , M. Iacovacci , R. Iuppa , H. Y. Jia , Labaciren , H. J. Li , C. Liu , J. Liu , M. Y. Liu , H. Lu , L. L. Ma , X. H. Ma , G. Mancarella , S. M. Mari , G. Marsella , S. Mastroianni , P. Montini , C. C. Ning , L. Perrone , P. Pistilli , P. Salvini , R. Santonico , P. R. Shen , X. D. Sheng , F. Shi , A. Surdo , Y. H. Tan , P. Vallania , S. Vernetto , C. Vigorito , H. Wang , C. Y. Wu , H. R. Wu , L. Xue , Q. Y. Yang , X. C. Yang , Z. G. Yao , A. F. Yuan , M. Zha , H. M. Zhang , L. Zhang , X. Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , J. Zhao , Zhaxiciren , Zhaxisangzhu , X. X. Zhou , F. R. Zhu , Q. Q. Zhu , . Yu. V. Stenkin , V. V. Alekseenko , V. Aynutdinov , Z. Y. Cai , X. W. Guo , Y. Liu , V. Rulev , O. B. Shchegolev , V. Stepanov , V. Volchenko , H. Zhang

Observation of TeV gamma-rays from the unidentified source HESS J1841-055 with the ARGO-YBJ experiment

We report the observation of a very high energy \gamma-ray source, whose position is coincident with HESS J1841-055. This source has been observed for 4.5 years by the ARGO-YBJ experiment from November 2007 to July 2012. Its emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-04 YBJ Collaboration , B. Bartoli , P. Bernardini , X. J. Bi , I. Bolognino , P. Branchini , A. Budano , A. K. Calabrese Melcarne , P. Camarri , Z. Cao , R. Cardarelli , S. Catalanotti , C. Cattaneo , S. Z. Chen , T. L. Chen , Y. Chen , P. Creti , S. W. Cui , B. Z. Dai , G. DAli Staiti , A. DAmone , Danzengluobu , I. De Mitri , B. DEttorre Piazzoli , T. Di Girolamo , X. H. Ding , G. Di Sciascio , C. F. Feng , Zhaoyang Feng , Zhenyong Feng , F. Galeazzi , E. Giroletti , Q. B. Gou , Y. Q. Guo , H. H. He , Haibing Hu , Hongbo Hu , Q. Huang , M. Iacovacci , R. Iuppa , I. James , H. Y. Jia , Labaciren , H. J. Li , J. Y. Li , X. X. Li , G. Liguori , C. Liu , C. Q. Liu , J. Liu , M. Y. Liu , H. Lu , L. L. Ma , X. H. Ma , G. Mancarella , S. M. Mari , G. Marsella , D. Martello , S. Mastroianni , P. Montini , C. C. Ning , A. Pagliaro , M. Panareo , B. Panico , L. Perrone , P. Pistilli , F. Ruggieri , P. Salvini , R. Santonico , S. N. Sbano , P. R. Shen , X. D. Sheng , F. Shi , A. Surdo , Y. H. Tan , P. Vallania , S. Vernetto , C. Vigorito , B. Wang , H. Wang , C. Y. Wu , H. R. Wu , B. Xu , L. Xue , Q. Y. Yang , X. C. Yang , Z. G. Yao , A. F. Yuan , M. Zha , H. M. Zhang , Jilong Zhang , Jianli Zhang , L. Zhang , P. Zhang , X. Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , J. Zhao , Zhaxiciren , Zhaxisangzhu , X. X. Zhou , F. R. Zhu , Q. Q. Zhu , G. Zizzi

LAGOVirtual: A Collaborative Environment for the Large Aperture GRB Observatory

We present the LAGOVirtual Project: an ongoing project to develop platform to collaborate in the Large Aperture GRB Observatory (LAGO). This continental-wide observatory is devised to detect high energy (around 100 GeV) component of Gamma…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-12-15 R. Camacho , R. Chacon , G. Diaz , C. Guada , V. Hamar , H. Hoeger , A. Melfo , L. A. Nunez , Y. Perez , C. Quintero , M. Rosales , R. Torrens , the LAGO Collaboration

Observations of very high energy gamma-ray emission from AGNs with the ground-based EAS arrays

The ground-based EAS array is usually operated with a high duty cycle (> 90%) and a large field of view (~2 sr), which can continuously monitor the sky. It is essential and irreplaceable to understand the gamma-ray emission mechanism and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-20 SongZhan CHEN

A Search for Ultra-High Energy Counterparts to Gamma-Ray Bursts

A small air shower array operating over many years has been used to search for ultra-high energy (UHE) gamma radiation ($\geq 50$ TeV) associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the BATSE instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 S. P. Plunkett , M. Delaney , B. McBreen , K. J. Hurley , C. T. O'Sullivan

High energy gamma-ray emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts -- before GLAST

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are short and intense emission of soft gamma-rays, which have fascinated astronomers and astrophysicists since their unexpected discovery in 1960s. The X-ray/optical/radio afterglow observations confirm the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-07 Yi-Zhong Fan , Tsvi Piran

The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory

The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) is an R&D project to plan and design the next observatory to detect gamma rays in the Southern hemisphere. The experiment, planned to be placed at an altitude greater than 4400 m, is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-09-12 Ruben Conceição

Feasibility of a Small, Rapid Optical-to-IR Response, Next Generation Gamma Ray Burst Mission

We present motivations for and study feasibility of a small, rapid optical to IR response gamma ray burst (GRB) space observatory. By analyzing existing GRB data, we give realistic detection rates for X-ray and optical/IR instruments of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Grossan , G. F. Smoot , V. V. Bogomolov , S. I. Svertilov , N. N. Vedenkin , M. Panasyuk , B. Goncharov , G. Rozhkov , K. Saleev , E. Grobovskoj , A. S. Krasnov , V. S. Morozenko , V. I. Osedlo , E. Rogkov , T. V. Vachenko , E. V. Linder

The Gamma Ray Burst section of the White Paper on the Status and Future of Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy: A Brief Preliminary Report

This is a short report on the preliminary findings of the gamma ray burst (GRB) working group for the white paper on the status and future of very high energy (VHE; >50 GeV) gamma-ray astronomy. The white paper discusses the status of past…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. D. Falcone , D. A. Williams , M. G. Baring , R. Blandford , V. Connaughton , P. Coppi , C. Dermer , B. Dingus , C. Fryer , N. Gehrels , J. Granot , D. Horan , J. I. Katz , K. Kuehn , P. Meszaros , J. Norris , P. Saz Parkinson , A. Peer , E. Ramirez-Ruiz , S. Razzaque , X. Wang , B. Zhang

Fermi-LAT Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observatory is a pair conversion telescope sensitive to gamma-rays over more than four energy decades, between 20 MeV and more than 300 GeV. Acting in synergy with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Nicola Omodei

Constraining the Beaming of Gamma-Ray Bursts With Radio Surveys

The degree of beaming in Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is currently unknown. The uncertainty in the gamma-ray beaming angle, theta, leaves the total energy release (proportional to theta^2) and the event rate per galaxy (proportional to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rosalba Perna , Abraham Loeb

Muon Detection of TeV Gamma Rays from Gamma Ray Bursts

Because of the limited size of the satellite-borne instruments, it has not been possible to observe the flux of gamma ray bursts (GRB) beyond GeV energy. We here show that it is possible to detect the GRB radiation of TeV energy and above,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 J. Alvarez-Muniz , F. Halzen

Identification of showers with the core outside the ARGO-YBJ detector

In this paper we present a procedure able to identify and reject showers with the core outside the ARGO-YBJ carpet boundaries. The efficiency of this method is investigated for different primary energies and fiducial areas. A comparison of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Di Sciascio , Elvira Rossi

Calibration of the GLAST Burst Monitor detectors

The GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) will augment the capabilities of GLAST for the detection of cosmic gamma-ray bursts by extending the energy range (20 MeV to > 300 GeV) of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) towards lower energies by 2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Andreas von Kienlin , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Giselher G. Lichti , Helmut Steinle , Michael Krumrey , Martin Gerlach , Gerald J. Fishman , Charles Meegan , Narayana Bhat , Michael S. Briggs , Roland Diehl , Valerie Connaughton , Jochen Greiner , R. Marc Kippen , Chryssa Kouveliotou , William Paciesas , Robert Preece , Colleen Wilson-Hodge

The H.E.S.S. II GRB Program

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are some of the most energetic and exotic events in the Universe, however their behaviour at the highest energies (>10 GeV) is largely unknown. Although the Fermi-LAT space telescope has detected several GRBs in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 R. D. Parsons , A. Balzer , M. Füssling , C. Hoischen , M. Holler , A. M. W. Mitchell , G. Pühlhofer , G. Rowell , S. Wagner , E. Bissaldi , P. O'Brien , P. H. T. Tam

Jupiter as a Giant Cosmic Ray Detector

We explore the feasibility of using the atmosphere of Jupiter to detect Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR's). The large surface area of Jupiter allows us to probe cosmic rays of higher energies than previously accessible. Cosmic ray…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Paul B. Rimmer , Craig R. Stark , Christiane Helling

Detection of afterglow emission up to 100 GeV through a stacking analysis of gamma-ray bursts

High-energy gamma-ray (>GeV) emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is very important in probing the jet evolution and particle acceleration of GRBs. The observations of high-energy photons are limited except for a few very bright GRBs,…

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GRBs as Probes of the IGM

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions known, capable of outshining the rest of gamma-ray sky during their short-lived prompt emission. Their cosmological nature makes them the best tool to explore the final stages in the…

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ARGO-YBJ Observation of the Large-scale Anisotropy During the Solar Minimum between Cycles 23 and 24

This paper reports on the measurement of the large-scale anisotropy in the distribution of cosmic-ray arrival directions using the data collected by the air shower detector ARGO-YBJ from 2008 January to 2009 December,during the minimum of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-03 Shuwang Cui

The visibility of gamma-ray burst afterglows in dusty star-forming regions

Recent observations of the environments of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) favour massive stars as their progenitors, which are likely to be surrounded by gas and dust. The visibility of the optical and UV emission of a GRB are expected to depend…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 B. P. Venemans , A. W. Blain