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Limits on Very High Energy Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the Milagro Observatory
The Milagro Collaboration, R. Atkins, W. Benbow +34
The Milagro telescope monitors the northern sky for 100 GeV to 100 TeV transient emission through continuous very high energy wide-field observations. The large effective area and…
Exclusion regions and their power
L. Fleysher, R. Fleysher, T. J. Haines +2
The question of exclusion region construction in new phenomenon searches has been causing considerable discussions for many years and yet no clear mathematical definition of the pr…
The uniformly most powerful test of statistical significance for counting-type experiments with background
L. Fleysher, R. Fleysher, T. J. Haines +2
In this paper, after a discussion of general properties of statistical tests, we present the construction of the most powerful hypothesis test for determining the existence of a ne…
Tests of Statistical Significance and Background Estimation in Gamma Ray Air Shower Experiments
R. Fleysher, L. Fleysher, P. Nemethy +2
In this paper we discuss several methods of significance calculation and point out the limits of their applicability. We then introduce a self consistent scheme for source detectio…
Observation of TeV Gamma Rays from the Crab Nebula with Milagro Using a New Background Rejection Technique
The Milagro Collaboration
The recent advances in TeV gamma-ray astronomy are largely the result of the ability to differentiate between extensive air showers generated by gamma rays and hadronic cosmic rays…
Search for Gamma Ray Emission from Galactic Plane with Milagro
R. Fleysher
The majority of galactic gamma rays are produced by interaction of cosmic rays with matter or radiation fields. This results in a diffuse radiation concentrated in the galactic pla…