Search for discrete sources of 100 TeV gamma radiation

J. W. Cronin, B. E. Fick, K. G. Gibbs, H. A. Krimm, N. C. Mascarenhas, T. A. McKay, D. Müller, B. J. Newport, R. A. Ong, L. J. Rosenberg, K. D. Green, J. Matthews, D. Nitz, D. Sinclair, and J. C. van der Velde
Phys. Rev. D 45, 4385 – Published 15 June 1992
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Abstract

The Chicago Air Shower Array is a large-area ground-based detector designed to observe extensive air showers produced by primary particles with energy ≳ 100 TeV. It operates in coincidence with the underground Michigan Muon Array. Data taken during 1989 are examined for evidence of continuous and pulsed emission from localized regions of the sky. The x-ray sources Cygnus X-3, Hercules X-1, and the Crab Nebula and pulsar are examined for steady and periodic γ-ray emission. To search for previously unknown compact sources, the background of cosmic rays is estimated over the sky between declinations +5° and +90° and enhancement is sought in small angular bins. There is no evidence for a significant excess from any of these searches, and flux limits are presented as a function of declination and muon content.

  • Received 29 July 1991

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.45.4385

©1992 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

J. W. Cronin, B. E. Fick, K. G. Gibbs, H. A. Krimm*, N. C. Mascarenhas, T. A. McKay, D. Müller, B. J. Newport, R. A. Ong, and L. J. Rosenberg

  • Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637

K. D. Green, J. Matthews, D. Nitz, D. Sinclair, and J. C. van der Velde

  • Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

  • *Present address: Center for Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139.
  • Present address: Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125.

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Vol. 45, Iss. 12 — 15 June 1992

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