Study of Cygnus X-3 at ultrahigh energies during the 1989 radio outbursts

D. E. Alexandreas, R. C. Allen, D. Berley, S. D. Biller, R. L. Burman, R. Cady, C. Y. Chang, B. L. Dingus, G. M. Dion, R. W. Ellsworth, J. A. Goodman, T. J. Haines, C. M. Hoffman, J. Lloyd-Evans, X-Q. Lu, D. E. Nagle, M. E. Potter, V. D. Sandberg, M. J. Stark, R. L. Talaga, P. R. Vishwanath, G. B. Yodh, and W. Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2973 – Published 18 June 1990
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Abstract

A unique feature of Cygnus X-3 is that occasionally it has large radio outbursts that begin very abruptly and last for several days. Several experiments in the past have claimed to observe signals above 1 TeV correlated with these radio bursts; the most recent bursts occurred in June and July 1989. No significant signal was observed by the CYGNUS experiment over time scales longer than a day during this time; a 90%-confidence-level limit of 3.0×1013 cm2 s1 is placed on the flux above 50 TeV during the period from 15 May to 31 July 1989.

  • Received 15 February 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.2973

©1990 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

D. E. Alexandreas, R. C. Allen, D. Berley, S. D. Biller, R. L. Burman, R. Cady, C. Y. Chang, B. L. Dingus, G. M. Dion, R. W. Ellsworth, J. A. Goodman, T. J. Haines, C. M. Hoffman, J. Lloyd-Evans, X-Q. Lu, D. E. Nagle, M. E. Potter, V. D. Sandberg, M. J. Stark, R. L. Talaga, P. R. Vishwanath, G. B. Yodh, and W. Zhang

  • The University of California, Irvine, California 92717
  • The University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
  • The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
  • George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030

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Vol. 64, Iss. 25 — 18 June 1990

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