Search for bursts of ultra-high-energy photons from astrophysical sources.
Abstract
The Buckland Park air shower array has been used in a number of forms for the study of UHE gamma-ray events. A two-year-data (1986-1988) set of events in the energy range 10 to the 14th to 10 to the 16th eV has been searched for evidence of bursts on the timescale of hours from 14 potential UHE gamma-ray sources. No conclusive evidence has been found for any UHE burst activity from these sources of the Southern Hemisphere for that period. There is possible evidence for activity associated with 1700-377 and SN1987A.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- 1989
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1989PASA....8...49C
- Keywords:
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- Gamma Ray Astronomy;
- Gamma Ray Bursts;
- Gamma Ray Telescopes;
- Phased Arrays;
- Pulsars;
- Scintillation Counters;
- Supernova 1987a;
- Space Radiation