Discovery Mode Search Techniques For Gamma-Ray Telescopes

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Apr 2003

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GAMMA-RAY BURST AND AFTERGLOW ASTRONOMY 2001: A Workshop Celebrating the First Year of the HETE Mission. AIP Conference Proceed

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts, X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation

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Like many wide field gamma-ray telescopes, the Milagro observatory has a highly variable point spread function (PSF), dependent upon the characteristics of the incoming photon. Because of the large variations in the PSF, a binned transient search technique is not optimal, and maximum likelihood can be computationally unfeasible. I have expanded upon the Gaussian weighting technique [1] to develop a transient search method that is sensitive, model independent, and computationally tractable. This method is currently being used to look for TeV transients from 40 seconds - 2 hours duration with the Milagro detector.

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