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Improving the Angular Resolution of the Buckland Park Air Shower Array

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

R. Meyhandan  and
R. W. Clay
R. Meyhandan
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, GPO Box 498 Adelaide, SA 5001
R. W. Clay
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, GPO Box 498 Adelaide, SA 5001
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Abstract

Air showers initiated by primary cosmic rays and gamma rays produce shower fronts which are curved. However, the arrival directions of air shower events have normally been fitted assuming a planar shower front. We present a technique which takes the average shower front shape into account to assign an improved shower direction after a first analysis assuming a plane front. We then examine the resulting angular resolution of the Buckland Park array.

Type
High Energy Astrophysics
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , 1991 , pp. 113 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1991

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