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Limits on the TeV flux of diffuse gamma rays as measured with the HEGRA air shower array

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Aharonian,  F. A.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Akhperjanian,  A. G.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Bernlöhr,  K.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Bolz,  O.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Gebauer,  H. J.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Hermann,  G.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Heusler,  A.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Hofmann,  W.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Horns,  D.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Jung,  I.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Kankanyan,  R.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Kohnle,  A.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Konopelko,  A.
Prof. Heinrich J. Völk, Emeriti, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Krawczynski,  H.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Lampeitl,  H.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Panter,  M.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Plyasheshnikov,  A.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Pühlhofer,  G.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Rowell,  G. P.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Schilling,  M.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Völk,  H. J.
Prof. Heinrich J. Völk, Emeriti, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Wiedner,  C.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Wittek,  W.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Aharonian, F. A., Akhperjanian, A. G., Barrio, J. A., Bernlöhr, K., Bojahr, H., Bolz, O., et al. (2002). Limits on the TeV flux of diffuse gamma rays as measured with the HEGRA air shower array. Astroparticle Physics, 17(4), 459-475.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-82F2-E
Abstract
Using data from the HEGRA air shower array. taken in the period from April 1998 to March 2000, upper limits on the ratio I- gamma/I-CR of the diffuse photon flux I-gamma to the hadronic cosmic ray flux I-CR are determined for the energy region 20, 100 TeV. The analysis uses a gamma-hadron discrimination which is based on differences in the development of photon- and hadron-induced air showers after the shower maximum, A method which is sensitive only to the non-isotropic component of the diffuse photon flux yields an upper limit of I-gamma/I-CR (at 54 TeV) < 2.0 x 10 (3) (at the 90% confidence level) for a sky region near the inner galaxy (20degrees < galactic longitude < 60degrees and \galactic latitude\ < 5degrees). A method which is sensitive to both the isotropic and the non-isotropic component yields global upper limits of I-gamma/I-CR (at 31 TeV) < 1.2 x 10(-2) and I-gamma/(CR) (at 53 TeV) < 1.4 x 10 (2) (at the 90% confidence level). (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.