ARGO-YBJ constraints on very high energy emission from GRBs

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ARGO-YBJ constraints on very high energy emission from GRBs

Zhengguo Cao Q. Y. Yang G. Zizzi Q. Huang Irina James Irina James F. Shi Y. Q. Guo Jilong Zhang A. Cappa C. Y. Wu M. Iacovacci M. Zha Zhaxisangzhu P. Zhang S. M. Mari S. M. Mari P. Salvini G. Di Sciascio L. Saggese M. De Vincenzi M. De Vincenzi H. Y. Jia Y. H. Zhang G. Mancarella C. Bacci C. Bacci Piero Vallania R. Santonico Zhenyong Feng J. K. K. Liu R. Gargana A. Pagliaro Labaciren Hongbo Hu A. Surdo C. F. Feng A. Budano L. Perrone H. J. Li H. R. Wu B. D'ettorre Piazzoli Haoqi Lu P. Creti X. Y. Zhang X. B. Qu X. H. Ding Y. X. Yan S. Mastroianni X. J. Bi L. Xue B. Z. Dai P. Camarri F. Ruggieri Bo Wang Y. H. Tan J. Y. Li X. D. Sheng H. W. Wang G. D'alí Staiti G. D'alí Staiti M. Y. Liu P. Branchini Paolo Bernardini N. Cheng Y. B. Chen C. Liu S. Z. Chen Danzengluobu X. X. Li A. K. Calabrese Melcarne C.c. Ning Huihai He R. Cardarelli G. Marsella X.h. Ma C. Cattaneo L. Zhang E. Rossi Paolo Montini Paolo Montini R. Iuppa S. Vernetto Jianli Zhang I. De Mitri S. Catalanotti H. M. Zhang B. Bartoli G. Liguori G. Liguori B. Liberti C. X. Liu Q. Q. Zhu A. F. Yuan X. R. Meng C. Stanescu Zhaoyang Feng F. R. Zhu M. Panareo M. Dattoli M. Dattoli F. Galeazzi P. R. Shen Haibing Hu C. Bleve D. Martello G. Aielli P. Pistilli P. Pistilli X. X. Zhou P. Galeotti P. Galeotti Bingwei Xu Severino Angelo Maria Bussino Severino Angelo Maria Bussino Q. B. Gou T. Di Girolamo P. Celio P. Celio S. W. Cui Carlo Vigorito Carlo Vigorito X. C. Yang

subject

Physics 010308 nuclear & particles physics Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale Detector Gamma ray Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astronomy Astronomy and Astrophysics Cosmic ray Field of view Astrophysics Radiation 7. Clean energy 01 natural sciences Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica 13. Climate action Duty cycle Observatory 0103 physical sciences GAMMA RAY BURSTS GAMMA RAYS COSMIC RAYS EXTENDED AIR SHOWERS Gamma-ray burst Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 010303 astronomy & astrophysics

description

The ARGO-YBJ (Astrophysical Radiation Ground-based Observatory at YangBaJing) experiment is designed for very high energy $\gamma$-astronomy and cosmic ray researches. Due to the full coverage of a large area ($5600 m^2$) with resistive plate chambers at a very high altitude (4300 m a.s.l.), the ARGO-YBJ detector is used to search for transient phenomena, such as Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Because the ARGO-YBJ detector has a large field of view ($\sim$2 sr) and is operated with a high duty cycle ($>$90%), it is well suited for GRB surveying and can be operated in searches for high energy GRBs following alarms set by satellite-borne observations at lower energies. In this paper, the sensitivity of the ARGO-YBJ detector for GRB detection is estimated. Upper limits to fluence with 99% confidence level for 26 GRBs inside the field of view from June 2006 to January 2009 are set in the two energy ranges 10$-$100 GeV and 10 GeV$-$1 TeV.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2009-02-28

10.1016/j.astropartphys.2009.05.005 http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0119