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Search for Bursts of Ultra-High-Energy Photons from Astrophysical Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

D. Ciampa  and
R. W. Clay
D. Ciampa
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, GPO Box 498, Adelaide South Australia, 5001
R. W. Clay
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, GPO Box 498, Adelaide South Australia, 5001
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Abstract

The Buckland Park air shower array has been used for some time as an ultra-high-energy gamma-ray telescope operating at photon energies of about 1015 eV. Other such telescopes have reported apparent bursts of events from astrophysical objects under study. We report here searches for UHE bursts from 14 southern hemisphere objects studied in our UHE programme. No conclusive evidence has been found for any UHE burst activity from these sources in the period 1986-1988. There is possible evidence for activity associated with 1700-377 and SN1987A.

Type
High Energy Astrophysics
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , 1989 , pp. 49 - 51
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1989

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