Milagro - A Water-Cherenkov Detector for TeV Gamma Ray Astrophysics

University Of Maryland, College Park, College Park MD

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Abstract

This proposal will add some 172 outrigger counters to Milagro. This new addition will improve Milagro's energy resolution, remove a systematic angular bias, and increase the detector aperture. Funding this proposal will also enable Milagro to identify those gamma bursts with high-energy gamma rays in a timely way so that this information can be broadcasted to other detectors and telescopes for confirming observations.