VAMOS：HAWC 伽马射线天文台的前导项目
天体物理仪器与方法
2015-06-22 v1
摘要
VAMOS 是一个原型探测器，于 2011 年建在墨西哥普埃布拉州海拔 4100 米（a.s.l.）处。VAMOS 的目标是完善 HAWC 天文台的设计、建造技术及数据采集系统。HAWC 是一个正在 VAMOS 同一地点建设的空气簇射阵列，旨在研究 TeV 能段天空。VAMOS 装置包括六个水切伦科夫探测器和两套不同的数据采集系统。它于 2011 年 10 月至 2012 年 5 月间运行，平均有效时间为 30%。除了科学验证目的外，这八个月的数据被用于获得本文展示的结果：探测器对 2012 年 3 月福布什下降（Forbush decrease）的响应，以及对长伽马射线暴 GRB111016B 和 GRB120328B 在高于 30 GeV 能量处可能发射的分析。
引用
@article{arxiv.1408.3477,
title = {VAMOS: a Pathfinder for the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory},
author = {A. U. Abeysekara and R. Alfaro and C. Alvarez and J. D. Álvarez and F. Ángeles and R. Arceo and J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez and A. Avila-Aroche and H. A. Ayala Solares and C. Badillo and A. S. Barber and B. M. Baughman and N. Bautista-Elivar and J. Becerra Gonzalez and E. Belmont and E. Benítez and S. Y. BenZvi and D. Berley and A. Bernal and M. Bonilla Rosales and J. Braun and R. A. Caballero-Lopez and K. S. Caballero-Mora and I. Cabrera and A. Carramiñana and L. Castañeda-Martínez and M. Castillo and U. Cotti and J. Cotzomi and E. de la Fuente and C. De León and T. DeYoung and A. Diaz-Azuara and L. Diaz-Cruz and R. Diaz Hernandez and J. C. Díaz-Vélez and B. L. Dingus and D. Dultzin and M. A. DuVernois and R. W. Ellsworth and A. Fernandez and D. W. Fiorino and N. Fraija and A. Galindo and G. García-Torales and F. Garfias and A. González and L. X. González and M. M. González and J. A. Goodman and V. Grabski and M. Gussert and C. Guzmán-Cerón and Z. Hampel-Arias and J. P. Harding and L. Hernández-Cervantes and C. M. Hui and P. Hüntemeyer and A. Imran and A. Iriarte and P. Karn and D. Kieda and G. J. Kunde and R. Langarica and A. Lara and G. Lara and R. J. Lauer and W. H. Lee and D. Lennarz and H. León Vargas and E. C. Linares and J. T. Linnemann and M. Longo and R. Luna-Garcia and A. Marinelli and L. A. Martínez and H. Martínez and O. Martínez and J. Martínez-Castro and M. Martos and J. A. J. Matthews and J. McEnery and E. Mendoza Torres and P. Miranda-Romagnoli and E. Moreno and M. Mostafá and J. Nava and L. Nellen and M. Newbold and R. Noriega-Papaqui and T. Oceguera-Becerra and D. P. Page and B. Patricelli and R. Pelayo and E. G. Pérez-Pérez and J. Pretz and I. Ramírez and A. Renter and C. Rivière and D. Rosa-González and F. Ruiz-Sala and E. L. Ruiz-Velasco and J. Ryan and J. R. Sacahui and H. Salazar and F. Salesa and A. Sandoval and E. Santos and M. Schneider and S. Silich and G. Sinnis and A. J. Smith and K. Sparks Woodle and R. W. Springer and F. Suarez and I. Taboada and A. Tepe and P. A. Toale and K. Tollefson and I. Torres and S. Tinoco and T. N. Ukwatta and J. F. Valdés Galicia and P. Vanegas and A. Vázquez and L. Villaseñor and W. Wall and T. Weisgarber and S. Westerhoff and I. G. Wisher and J. Wood and G. B. Yodh and P. W. Younk and D. Zaborov and A. Zepeda and H. Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.3477},
year = {2015}
}
备注
Accepted for pubblication in Astroparticle Physics Journal (20 pages, 10 figures). Corresponding authors: A.Marinelli and D.Zaborov