Search for GeV Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts Using Milagro Scaler Data

Journal Article · Thu Jul 12 04:00:00 EDT 2007 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2757409· OSTI ID:21067283

Williams, D A ^[1]

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1. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 (United States)

Milagro is a wide field (2 sr) high duty cycle (>90%) ground-based water Cherenkov detector built to observe extensive air showers produced by high energy particles interacting in the Earth's atmosphere. Milagro records extensive air showers in the energy range 100 GeV to 100 TeV, as well as the counting rates of the individual photomultiplier tubes in the detector. The individual tube counting rates can be used to detect transient emission above {approx}1 GeV. We have used the counting rate (scaler) data to search for high energy emission from a sample of 98 gamma-ray bursts (GRB) detected from January 2000 through June 2006 by BATSE, BeppoSax, HETE-2, INTEGRAL, Swift or the IPN. No evidence for emission from any of the bursts has been found, and we present fluence upper limits from these bursts.

• OSTI ID: 21067283
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 921; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
CHERENKOV COUNTERS
COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS
COSMIC PHOTONS
COSMIC RAY DETECTION
COUNTING RATES
EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS
GAMMA DETECTION
GEV RANGE
PHOTOMULTIPLIERS
PHOTON EMISSION
TELESCOPE COUNTERS
TEV RANGE
TRANSIENTS
WATER