Milagrito Detection of TeV Emission from Mrk 501
/ Authors
R. Atkins, W. Benbow, D. Berley, M. Chen, D. Coyne, R. Delay, B. Dingus, D. Dorfan, R. Ellsworth, D. Evans
and 33 more authors
A. Falcone, L. Fleysher, R. Fleysher, G.Gisler, J. Goodman, T. Haines, C. Hoffman, S. Hugenberger, L. Kelley, I. Leonor, J. Macri, M. McConnell, J. McCullough, J. Mcenery, R. Miller, A. Mincer, M. Morales, P. Némethy, J. Ryan, M. Schneider, B. Shen, A. Shoup, G. Sinnis, A. Smith, G. Sullivan, T. Thompson, O. Tumer, K. Wang, M. Wascko, S. Westerhoff, D. Williams, T. Yang, G. Yodh
/ Abstract
The Milagro water Cherenkov detector near Los Alamos, New Mexico, has been operated as a sky monitor at energies of a few TeV between February 1997 and April 1998. Serving as a test run for the full Milagro detector, Milagrito has taken data during the strong and long-lasting 1997 flare of Mrk 501. We present results from the analysis of Mrk 501 and compare the excess and background rates with expectations from the detector simulations.
Journal: arXiv: Astrophysics