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Status and Results from the HEGRA Air Shower Experiment

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The HEGRA experiment investigates the relativistic (non thermal) universe by measuring air showers initiated in the atmosphere by photons and charged particles from the cosmos, using the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov light technique (> 500 GeV) and the showerfront sampling technique (> 20 TeV). New results concerning the search and study of gamma ray sources above 500 GeV, the measurement of the energy spectrum and chemical composition of cosmic rays above 1 PeV and the search of TeV counterparts of Gamma Ray Bursts are briefly described.

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  • For a list of publications of the HEGRA collaboration see the web address www.gae.ucm.es. See also the HEGRA contributions to the Proceedings of the 25th International Cosmic Ray Conference 1997, Durban (South Africa) and proceedings of the 16th European Cosmic Ray Symposium 1998, Alcalá (Spain).

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  1. Dept. Física Atómica, Fac. Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    V. Fonseca

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Fonseca, V. Status and Results from the HEGRA Air Shower Experiment. Astrophysics and Space Science 263, 377–380 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002101216613

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