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Milagrito Detection of TeV Emission from Mrk 501
- Atkins, R;
- Benbow, W;
- Berley, D;
- Chen, M-L;
- Coyne, DG;
- Delay, RS;
- Dingus, BL;
- Dorfan, DE;
- Ellsworth, RW;
- Evans, D;
- Falcone, A;
- Fleysher, L;
- Fleysher, R;
- Gisler, G;
- Goodman, JA;
- Haines, TJ;
- Hoffman, CM;
- Hugenberger, S;
- Kelley, LA;
- Leonor, I;
- Macri, J;
- McConnell, M;
- McCullough, JF;
- McEnery, JE;
- Miller, RS;
- Mincer, AI;
- Morales, MF;
- Nemethy, P;
- Ryan, JM;
- Schneider, M;
- Shen, B;
- Shoup, A;
- Sinnis, G;
- Smith, AJ;
- Sullivan, GW;
- Thompson, TN;
- Tumer, OT;
- Wang, K;
- Wascko, MO;
- Westerhoff, S;
- Williams, DA;
- Yang, T;
- Yodh, GB
Abstract
The Milagro water Cherenkov detector near Los Alamos, New Mexico, has been operated as a sky monitor at energies of a few TeV between February 1997 and April 1998. Serving as a test run for the full Milagro detector, Milagrito has taken data during the strong and long-lasting 1997 flare of Mrk 501. We present results from the analysis of Mrk 501 and compare the excess and background rates with expectations from the detector simulations.
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