Title
The capability of water Cherenkov detectors arrays of the LAGO project to detect Gamma-Ray Burst and high energy astrophysics sources
Date Issued
01 November 2023
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Sidelnik I.
Sarmiento-Cano C.
Sacahui J.R.
Asorey H.
Rubio-Montero A.J.
Mayo-Garcia R.
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are one of the brightest transient events detected, with energies in their prompt phase ranging from keV to GeV. Theoretical models predict emissions at higher energies in the early times of the afterglow emission, and recently GRB190114C was the first GRB detected at TeV energies by the MAGIC experiment. The Latin American Giant Observatory (LAGO) operates a network of water Cherenkov detectors (WCD) at different sites in Latin America. Spanning over different altitudes and geomagnetic rigidity cutoffs, the geographic distribution of the LAGO sites, combined with the new electronics for control, atmospheric sensing, and data acquisition, allows the realization of diverse astrophysics studies at a regional scale. LAGO WCDs located at high altitudes possess good sensitivity to electromagnetic secondary radiation, which is the main expected signature of this kind of high-energy event on the ground. Due to the characteristics of the WCD and the wide field of view, LAGO possesses a large aperture high-duty cycle. In this work, we present the results of the sensitivity of LAGO small arrays of WCDs for the detection of events like GRB190114C. Also, we extend the study to other TeV galactic emitters, such as pulsar wind nebulas, TeV-halos, and some additional sources with unidentified categorizations. These are interesting sources to study taking advantage of the long-term monitoring capabilities of LAGO. We use a dedicated simulation process: ARTI, a toolkit developed by LAGO for high-energy air showers, MEIGA, a framework to simulate the response of the detectors, and oneDataSim, the new high-performance computing and cloud-based implementation of our simulation framework.
Volume
1056
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología Oceanografía, Hidrología, Recursos hídricos Ingeniería ambiental y geológica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85166657354
Source
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
ISSN of the container
01689002
Sponsor(s)
This work was partly carried out within the “European Open Science Cloud - Expanding Capacities by building Capabilities” (EOSC-SYNERGY) project, co-founded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 RI Programme under Grant Agreement no 857647. We acknowledge the ICTP, Italy and OIEA, Italy grant NT-17 that partially founded stays to carry out this work. The LAGO Collaboration is very thankful to all the participating institutions and to the Pierre Auger Collaboration for their continuous support.
Sources of information: Directorio de Producción Científica Comisión Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Aeroespacial