Flux upper limits of diffuse TeV gamma rays from the Galactic plane using the effective area of the Tibet-II and -III arrays

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1932-1937

  Amenomori, M ^a   Ayabe, S ^b   Cui, S W ^c   Danzengluobu, ^d   Ding, L K ^c   Ding, X H ^d   Feng, C F ^e   Feng, Z Y ^f   Gao, X Y ^g   Geng, Q X ^g   Guo, H W ^d   He, H H ^c   He, M ^e   Hibino, K ^h   Hotta, N ⁱ   Hu, Haibing ^d   Hu, H B ^c   Huang, J ^j   Huang, Q ^f   Izumi, M ^k   Jia, H Y ^f   Kajino, F ^k   Kasahara, K ^l   Katayose, Y ^m   Kato, C ⁿ   Kawata, K ^j   Labaciren, ^d   Le, G M ^o   Li, J Y ^e   Lu, H ^c   Lu, S L ^c   Meng, X R ^d   Mizutani, K ^b   Mu, J ^g   Munakata, K ⁿ   Nagai, A ⁱ   Nanjo, H ^a   Nishizawa, M ^p   Ohnishi, M ^j   Ohta, I ⁱ   Onuma, H ^b   Ouchi, T ^h   Ozawa, S ^j   Ren, J R ^c   Saito, T ^q   Sakata, M ^k   Sasaki, T ^h   Shibata, M ^m   Shiomi, A ^j   Shirai, T ^h   Sugimoto, H ^r   Takita, M ^j   Tan, Y H ^c   Tateyama, N ^h   Torii, S ^h   Tsuchiya, H ^j   Udo, S ^j   Utsugi, T ^h   Wang, B S ^c   Wang, H ^c   Wang, X ^b   Wang, Y G ^e   Wu, H R ^c   Xue, L ^e   Yamamoto, Y ^k   Yan, C T ^c   Yang, X C ^g   Yasue, S ⁿ   Ye, Z H ^o   Yu, G C ^f   Yuan, A F ^d   Yuda, T ^j   Zhang, H M ^c   Zhang, J L ^c   Zhang, N J ^e   Zhang, X Y ^e   Zhang, Y ^c   Zhaxisangzhu, ^d   Zhou, X X ^f   more..

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^d TIBET UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^k KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^l SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^m YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁿ SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^o CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^p NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^q TOKYO METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING   (Japan)

^r SHONAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Diffuse TeV gamma rays; Flux upper limits; Galactic plane

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAYS; ELECTRONS; GALAXIES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPACE RESEARCH;

COMPTON EFFECT; DIFFUSE TEV GAMMA RAYS; ENERGY SPECTRUM; FLUX UPPER LIMITS; GALACTIC PLANE;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 33744930321     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.08.049     Document Type: Article

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