Author:
Tornabene Hugh S.,Cusimano Frank J.
Abstract
A new installation for the detection of Cerenkov light from extensive air showers is being used to search for point sources of high-energy neutral cosmic rays. By measuring the relative arrival times of the Cerenkov light front at four well-spaced independent light detectors, an area of sky is examined simultaneously, with angular resolution near 1.5° half-width at half-maximum and energy threshold to gamma rays near 2 × 1012 eV. Results from preliminary scans of 3C144, 3C157, 3C219, 3C274, 3C295, and the constellation of Leo near declination 20° and right ascension 1100 h are given.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
Cited by
11 articles.
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