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Search for Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Rays from SN1987A

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

D. J. Bird
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, GPO Box 498 Adelaide, South Australia5001
D. Ciampa
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, GPO Box 498 Adelaide, South Australia5001

Abstract

We report here a search of data recorded by the Buckland Park air shower array from the first year after the supernova and set an upper limit to the proton luminosity of SN1987A of 7.7 × 1040 ergs s−1.

Type
High Energy Astrophysics
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1989

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