Published 2011
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Journal article
Gamma astronomy with ARGO-YBJ
Creators
- 1. On behalf of the ARGO-YBJ Collaboration Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica, Universita' di Pavia INFN, Sezione di Pavia - Pavia, (Italy)
Description
ARGO-YBJ, an extensive air shower detector located at Yangbajing (Tibet, China) at 4300 m a.s.l., is made by a full coverage carpet plus a guard ring (∼ 6700m2) of resistive plate chambers. Its structure, and the high altitude allow exhaustive studies of γ astronomy with energy range in the TeV region. In this paper some of the ARGO-YBJ results in γ astronomy are discussed. In particular the TeV emissions of the blazar Mrk 421, the analysis of its last two flares and the comparison with Cherenkov telescopes results are presented.
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuovo Cimento. C (Print)
- Journal Volume
- 34
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Journal Page Range
- p. 348-349
- ISSN
- 2037-4909
Conference
- Title
- Incontri di fisica delle Alte Energie
- Acronym
- IFAE 2011
- Dates
- 27-29 Apr 2011
- Place
- Perugia (Italy)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- Italy
- INIS RN
- 43093495
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CHERENKOV COUNTERS; CHERENKOV COUNTING; GAMMA ASTRONOMY
- Descriptors DEC
- ASTRONOMY; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTORS