ARGO-YBJ constraints on very high energy emission from GRBs

Aielli, G; Bacci, C; Bartoli, B; Bernardini, P; Xj, Bi; Bleve, C; Branchini, P; Budano, A; Bussino, Severino Angelo Maria; Akc, Melcarne; Camarri, P; Cao, Z; Cappa, A; Cardarelli, R; Catalanotti, S; Cattaneo, C; Celio, P; Chen, Sz; Chen, Y; Cheng, N; Creti, P; Cui, Sw; Dai, Bz; Staiti, Gd; Danzengluobu,; Dattoli, M; De Mitri, I; Piazzoli, Bd; DE VINCENZI, Mario; Di Girolamo, T; Ding, Xh; Di Sciascio, G; Feng, Cf; Feng, Zy; Feng, Zy; Galeazzi, F; Galeotti, P; Gargana, R; Gou, Qb; Guo, Yq; Hh, He; Hb, Hu; Hb, Hu; Huang, Q; Iacovacci, M; Iuppa, R; James, I; Jia, Hy; Labaciren,; Hj, Li; Jy, Li; Xx, Li; Liberti, B; Liguori, G; Liu, C; Liu, Cq; Liu, My; Liu, J; H, Lu; Xh, Ma; Mancarella, G; Mari, Stefano Maria; Marsella, G; Martello, D; Mastroianni, S; Meng, Xr; Montini, P; Ning, Cc; Pagliaro, A; Panareo, M; Perrone, L; Pistilli, P; Xb, Qu; Rossi, E; Ruggieri, F; Saggese, L; Salvini, P; Santonico, R; Shen, Pr; Sheng, Xd; Shi, F; Stanescu, C; Surdo, A; Tan, Yh; Vallania, P; Vernetto, S; Vigorito, C; Wang, B; Wang, H; Cy, Wu; Hr, Wu; B, Xu; Xue, L; Yan, Yx; Yang, Qy; Yang, Xc; Yuan, Af; Zha, M; Zhang, Hm; Zhang, Jl; Zhang, Jl; Zhang, L; Zhang, P; Zhang, Xy; Zhang, Y; Zhaxisangzhu,; Zhou, Xx; Zhu, Fr; Zhu, Qq; Zizzi, G.

doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2009.05.005

The ARGO-YBJ (Astrophysical Radiation Ground-based Observatory at YangBajing) experiment is designed for very high energy gamma-astronomy and cosmic ray researches. Due to the full coverage of a large area (5600 m(2)) with resistive plate chambers at a very high altitude (4300 m a.s.l.), the ARGO-YBJ detector is used to search for transient phenomena, such as Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Because the ARGO-YBJ detector has a large field of view (similar to 2 sr) and is operated with a high duty cycle (>90%), it is well suited for GRB surveying and can be operated in searches for high energy GRBs following alarms set by satellite-borne observations at lower energies. In this paper, the sensitivity of the ARGO-YBJ detector for GRB detection is estimated. Upper limits to fluence with 99% confidence level for 26 GRBs inside the field of view from June 2006 to January 2009 are set in the two energy ranges 10-100 GeV and 10 GeV-1 TeV. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Aielli, G., Bacci, C., Bartoli, B., Bernardini, P., Bi, X.j., Bleve, C., et al. (2009). ARGO-YBJ constraints on very high energy emission from GRBs. ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS, 32(1), 47-52 [10.1016/j.astropartphys.2009.05.005].