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Search for short bursts of gamma-ray emission in spark chamber data: application to COS-B
Buccheri, R.; Maccarone, M. C.; Fry, W. F.
We describe an analysis method aimed to the detection of short (<1000 s) bursts in the emission of gamma-ray sources using spark chamber data. The method utilizes a maximum likelihood technique which looks for accumulations of photons, compatible with the point spread function of the experiment, within the whole observing time and the field-of-…