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Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.
Volume 138, Number 3, September 1999
Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era Contents Rome, November 3-6, 1998
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Page(s) | 597 - 598 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:1999367 | |
Published online | 15 September 1999 |
The ARGO-YBJ detector and high energy GRBs
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INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Roma Tre, Italy
2
Zhenghou University, Henan, China
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INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Napoli, Italy
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INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Padova, Italy
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INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Lecce, Italy
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Shangdong University, Jinan, China
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INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
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Tibet University, Lhasa, China
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South West Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
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Yunnan University, Kunming, China
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IHEP, Beijing, China
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Universitá della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
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Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy
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Istituto di Cosmogeofisica del CNR and INFN, Torino, Italy
Send offprint request to: S. Vernetto
Received:
29
December
1998
Accepted:
21
April
1999
ARGO-YBJ (Astrophysical Radiation with Ground-based Observatory at YangBaJing)
is a detector optimized to study small size air showers.
It consists of a layer of Resistive Plate Counters (RPCs)
covering an area of ~ 6500 m2
and will be located in the Yangbajing Laboratory (Tibet, China)
at 4300 m a.s.l.
ARGO-YBJ will be devoted to a wide range of fundamental issues in cosmic
rays and astroparticle physics,
including in particular gamma-ray astronomy and gamma-ray bursts physics
in the range .
The sensitivity of ARGO-YBJ to detect high energy GRBs is
presented.
Key words: gamma-ray: bursts
© European Southern Observatory (ESO), 1999