米拉格罗伽射线观测站的现状
天体物理学
2007-05-23 v1
摘要
米拉格罗伽射线观测站是世界上第一个能够在 TeV 能量下持续监测天空的大面积水陈浦检测器。该仪器位于新墨西哥州北部，将对北半球在约 250 GeV 至 50 TeV 能范围内进行全天空巡查。凭借高占空比、巨大的探测面积(~5000 平方米)和宽广的视场(~1 sr)，米拉格罗在寻找高能伽马射线的瞬态和 DC 来源方面具有独特的能力。米拉格罗自 1999 年 2 月起已在运行。将讨论米拉格罗观测站的当前状态及初始结果。
引用
@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}
}
备注
4 pages, submitted to XXVI International Cosmic Ray Conference, Salt Lake City