Development of the Buckland Park Cosmic Ray Air Shower Array for Ultra High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy

Abstract

The Buckland Park air shower array is being developed particularly for use as an ultra-high-energy gamma ray astronomy telescope. The properties of this instrument are described with an emphasis on improvements being made to its angular resolution. Some early data are presented to illustrate the way in which the data obtained will be used.

Search for Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Rays from SN1987A

“…The Buckland Park array is a sea-level based scintillator array designed to operate in the primary cosmic ray energy range from ~ 10 14 eV to 10 16 eV. The array operation has been described in detail elsewhere (Crouch et al 1981, Ciampa et al 1986. A form of the relationship between collecting area and primary gamma-ray energy for the array in the mode of operation for the supernova search has been given by .…”

A Search for Ultra-high-energy Gamma-ray Emission from Binary X-ray Systems

“…to improve the angular resolution somewhat for the larger showers. The enlarged array has been described in detail by Ciampa et al (1986).…”