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| >> | Study of Angular Reconstruction of Showers with Cores Outside of the Array Boundaries (CYGNUS Memo) | 4-26-91 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | Calculating Upper Limits (CYGNUS Memo) | 6-2-92 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | Milagro at 10 GeV | 10-12-93 | Spencer Klein |
| >> | Results of Reflectivity Measurements for the Muon Layer | 9-22-94 | David Schmidt |
| >> | Scaler Implementation in Milagro (this is the final version, despite the "Draft" label) | 1-27-95 | David A. Williams & Richard Schnee |
| >> | Monte Carlo Comparisons | 8-28-95 | Cristobal Padilla & Matteo Cavalli-Sforza |
| >> | Comparisons of EAShower and GEANTShower | 3-20-96 | Anthony Shoup |
| >> | Performance of water Tanks and Igloos | 11-26-96 | Gaurang B. Yodh, Anthony Shoup, Isabel Leonor, Scott Hugenberger & Maurice Masequesmay |
| >> | Status of Milagrito Moon Shadow | 3-10-97 | Anthony Shoup |
| >> | Moon Shadow - Simulation Study | 4-7-97 | Gaurang B. Yodh |
| >> | Milagrito Moon Shadow Update | 4-7-97 | Anthony Shoup |
| 1. | A Causality Criteria | 5-20-97 | Todd Haines |
| 2. | Grito Fitting | 6-2-97 | Jordan Goodman |
| 3. | Timing Pedestals | 7-7-97 | Lazar & Roman Fleysher & Peter Nemethy, with Isabel Leonor |
| 4. | Igloo Re-Design | 7-11-97 | Gus Sinnis |
| 5. | Angle Fits: Max. Likelihood | 7-30-97 | Andy Smith |
| 6. | PMT Prepulsing: Hi Threshold Selection | 8-11-97 | Isabel Leonor |
| 7. | The Igloo Page | 8-11-97 | Morgan Wascko |
| 8. | Milagrito Sim: GEANT | 8-19-97 | Stefan Westerhoff |
| 9. | The Tankito Array | 8-20-97 | Anthony Shoup |
| 10. | Chi-Squared Angle Fitter | 9-3-97 | Gus Sinnis |
| 11. | TOT-PE Conversion | 9-18-97 | Kelin Wang |
| 12. | Mrk501: A First Look | 9-22-97 | Gus Sinnis |
| 13. | The Moon Memo | 10-8-97 | Anthony Shoup |
| 14. | RA-DEC vs x-y shifts | 10-6-97 | Gaurang Yodh |
| 15. | The Angle Fitter Revisited | 10-30-97 | Gus Sinnis |
| 16. | Pedestals II | 11-01-97 | Lazar & Roman Fleysher & Peter Nemethy |
| 17. | Milagrito Simulation | 12-05-97 | Stefan Westerhoff |
| 18. | Electronic Drifts | 12-10-97 | Morgan Wascko |
| 19. | Effect of the Magnetic Field on the Moon Shadow | 12-12-97 | Gaurang Yodh |
| 20. | Igloo Water | 12-19-97 | Hoffman, Miller & Westerhoff |
| 21. | Mrk501 Update | 12-22-97 | Andy Smith |
| 22. | Pulse Height Resolution of TOT | 1-22-98 | Gus Sinnis |
| 23. | Deflection of Cosmic Rays in the Earth's Magnetic Field | 2-8-98 | Cy Hoffman |
| 24. | Mrk501 Update | 2-9-98 | Andy Smith |
| 25. | Effect of Laser Fluctuations on the Occupancy Method | 2-18-98 | Gus Sinnis |
| 26. | Igloo Performance | 2-23-98 | Richard Miller, Stefan Westerhoff & David Williams |
| 27. | PMT Saturation | 3-15-98 | Anthony Shoup |
| 28. | Calibration (TOT to PEs) Status | 3-23-98 | Andy Smith |
| 29. | Angular Reconstruction: Part III | 3-30-98 | Gus Sinnis |
| 30. | TOT-PE Conversion using Occupancy Method | 4-22-98 | Isabel Leonor |
| 31. | Index of plots for Phone-Conference | 4-22-98 | Gus Sinnis |
| 32. | Pointing with Milagro | 5-14-98 | Lazar & Roman Fleysher & Allen Mincer |
| 33. | Milagro Source Counts: Estimating the Number of Detectable XBLs | 11-22-98 | Richard Miller |
| 34. | Proposal to Update the Milagro Online System | 12-15-98 | Miguel Morales |
| 35. | How are Dec and RA Affected by Errors in Angular Reconstruction? | 12-17-98 | Lazar & Roman Fleysher |
| 36. | Angle Fitter 3++ | 2-1-99 | Lazar & Roman Fleysher, Todd Haines & Peter Nemethy |
| 37. | Flux Measurements by Air Cerenkov Telescopes | 2-19-99 | Cy Hoffman |
| 38. | Resolution Effects on the Slope of the Sin(Theta True) vs. Sin(Theta Reconstructed) Plot | 2-22-99 | David Williams |
| 39. | A Simple Algorithm for Hadron Rejection in Milagro | 2-24-99 | Gaurang Yodh & Robert Atkins |
| 40. | Milagro Tube Failures | 3-3-99 | Cy Hoffman |
| 41. | Tuning the Trigger for Low Energies | 3-4-99 | Todd Haines |
| 42. | A Simple Algorithm for Hadron Rejection in Milagro--Addendum | 3-7-99 | Gaurang Yodh & Robert Atkins |
| 43. | Gamma/Hadron Separation in Milagro and Milagrito | 3-8-99 | Stefan Westerhoff |
| 44. | NQS: Queuing Simulation Jobs on the PCs | 3-9-99 | Julie McEnery |
| 45. | An Image Analysis Approach to Analyzing Milagro Data | 3-15-99 | Richard Miller |
| 46. | Application of Simple Algorithm for Hadron Rejection to Data | 3-16-99 | Gaurang Yodh & Anthony Shoup |
| 47. | Measured Fluxes from the Crab and Markarian 501 and Expectations for Milagrito | 3-19-99 | Cy Hoffman |
| 48. | Rate Measurements for Muon Layer Patches | 3-19-99 | Todd Haines |
| 49. | Rate Comparison between Milagrito Data and Simulation | 3-26-99 | Stefan Westerhoff |
| 50. | Rate Comparison between Milagrito Data and Simulation II | 4-15-99 | Stefan Westerhoff |
| 50.5 | Minutes of Milagro Collaboration Meeting, May 2-3, 1999, Los Alamos, NM | 5-4-99 | Galen Gisler |
| >> | An Invitation to Random Functions: A hypothetic lecture on a hypothetic Milagro Seminar | 5-7-99 | Roman Fleysher & Lazar Fleysher |
| 51. | Further Analysis of GRB ML0001 | 5-13-99 | Gus Sinnis |
| 52. | BATSE GRBs in Milagrito | 5-16-99 | Julie McEnery & Andy Smith |
| 53. | Some Comments on Statistics of BATSE GRB Type Searches | 5-23-99 | Allen Mincer & Peter Nemethy |
| 54. | Moon Memo Part 1: The delta(theta) vs. theta systematic and the Moon Shadow | 6-18-99 | Morgan O. Wascko |
| 55. | Search for Point Sources and Emission from the Galactic Plane in Milagrito | 7-9-99 | Andrew J. Smith |
| 56. | Minutes of Milagro Collaboration Meeting, July 9-10, 1999, Los Alamos, NM | 7-13-99 | Galen Gisler et al. |
| 57. | A preliminary study of flashers and their effect on Milagrito GRB analyses | 8-3-99 | Joseph McCullough & Richard S. Miller |
| 58. | Comments on the Recent Memo by Joe and Rich | 8-5-99 | Julie McEnery and Andy Smith |
| 59. | Monte Carlo Study of GRB Location Resolution and Optimal Binsize | 9-24-99 | Andrew J. Smith & Julie McEnery |
| >> | Milagrito's Point Spread Function and Mrk 501 (Revision 1) | 10-2-99 | Stefan Westerhoff |
| >> | Searching for Delayed Emission from a GRB: Search Strategies and Trials Factors | 10-5-99 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | Running Milagro and Milagrito Simulations with GEANT (Version 2.2) | 10-27-99 | Stefan Westerhoff |
| >> | Algorithm for rejection of non-shower hits in Milagro | 11-99 | Gaurang B. Yodh |
| >> | Systematic Errors in "Standard" Background Estimates of Milagro Data | 12-14-99 | T.J. Haines |
| >> | "Likelihood" Method for Gamma-Ray Burst and other Source Searches | 12-20-99 | T.J. Haines |
| >> | Sampling and curvature corrections from Milagro data itself | 12-21-99 | Javier Bussons Gordo |
| >> | Wimp Annihilation in the Solar Neighborhood: a Study of Optimal Bin Size and Comments on Background Methods | 1-3-00 | T.J. Haines |
| >> | Status of the Crab search in the Milagro Data | 1-4-00 | Andrew J. Smith |
| >> | PE and TPed Calibration with the data | 1-4-00 | Andrew J. Smith |
| >> | Algorithm for recovering No-fits in Milagro | 1-16-00 | Gaurang B. Yodh |
| >> | Gamma/Hadron Separation with Neural Networks | 1-24-00 | B. Osborn, D. Wyatt |
| >> | Comments on the Milagro Crab Signal | 1-26-00 | T.J. Haines |
| >> | Analysis of Scaler Data from GRB 970417a | 1-31-00 | David A. Williams |
| >> | Event filtering prior to the core and angle fitters | 2-1-00 | Javier Bussons Gordo |
| >> | New Calibrations and effects of removing bad hits | 2-1-00 | Gaurang B. Yodh |
| >> | The Crab: Milagrito vs. Milagro | 2-1-00 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | PMT Testing and Night Sky Background Results for WACT | 2-2-00 | Robert Atkins |
| >> | Study of Optimal Bin Size and NFIT Cut for a Binned Analysis | 2-3-00 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | Note on Removal of the Unwanted Hits in Milagro Events | 2-11-00 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | Contemplation on Quality Factor | 2-12-00 | Lazar Fleysher & Roman Fleysher |
| >> | Optimal Bin Size vs. Nexp and Nfit Cut for Milagrito | 2-15-00 | J. F. McCullough |
| >> | Flux, fluence and upper energy cutoff for GRB 970417a | 2-24-00 | Julie McEnery & Andrew J. Smith |
| >> | Variable Word Length Compression, Memo #1 | 2-29-00 | Miguel Morales |
| >> | Event Energy Determination | 3-14-00 | Gaurang B. Yodh |
| >> | Likelihood Method II: Further Expansion | 4-3-00 | T. J. Haines |
| >> | Tuning the Angle Fitter, Sampling and Curvature Corrections for Milagro | 4-3-00; Revised 4-5-00 | J. F. McCullough & Javier Bussons Gordo |
| >> | Effects on Scaler and Trigger Rates from Physical Interactions with the Cover | 4-11-00 | Linda Kelley and Don Coyne |
| >> | A different way to fix the PMT connector problem | 4-13-00 | Michael Schneider |
| >> | Slewing Extrapolation (See also related memo of 5-7-99) | 4-20-00 | Lazar Fleysher, Roman Fleysher, Allen Mincer & Peter Nemethy |
| >> | Studies of the Mysterious Late-Night Rate Increase and the Estimation of Backgrounds in Milagro | 4-25-00 | Cy Hoffman & Joe McCullough |
| >> | Milagro Data Integrity I: The Clock (Also available as a Word Document) |
4-25-00 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | Time Calibration: Stability Studies | 6-5-00 | Peter Nemethy, Lazar Fleysher & Roman Fleysher |
| >> | Methods of Photo-Electron Calibration | 6-19-00 | Lazar Fleysher, Roman Fleysher & Todd Haines |
| >> | Manual on using Version 43 of the Offline Code | 6-19-00 | J. F. McCullough |
| >> | Milagro Calibration System | 6-28-00 | Lazar Fleysher & Roman Fleysher |
| >> | An Off-Pond Core Finder | 7-7-00 | Greg Sullivan & Andrew Smith |
| >> | Hadron Rejection in Milagro | 7-17-00 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | A Second Look at the Delta Theta Systematic Effect And The Moon Shadow | 8-10-00 | Morgan O. Wascko |
| >> | Crab Update | 8-29-00 | Andrew J. Smith |
| >> | Motivation For Lowering Milagro's Trigger Threshold | 9-9-00 | Elizabeth Hays & David Noyes |
| >> | Dive Training for Supervisors | 9-12-00 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | Database - What are those variables? | 9-24-00; Revised 9-27-00 | Julie McEnery |
| >> | A Maximum Likelihood Approach to Background Rejection | 10-25-00 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | Minutes of the October 2000 Collaboration Meeting | 10-30-00 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | Transparencies of the October 2000 Collaboration Meeting | 11-20-00 | Brenda Dingus, editor |
| >> | Surveying of Outrigger Tanks | 1-31-01 | Matthew Green & Cy Hoffman |
| >> | Measured Fluxes of the Crab and Mrk 421, and Expectations for Milagro | 2-14-01 | Cy Hoffman |
| >> | Exploring the Effects of Timing Cuts at Low Trigger Thresolds | 2-15-01 | Elizabeth Hays |
| >> | Minutes of the February 2001 Collaboration Meeting | 3-1-01 | Brenda Dingus |
| >> | Milagro Surveys from Ancient to Modern Periods (Also available as a Tex Document) |
3-4-01 | Allen I. Mincer |
| >> | Attenuation of photons in Milagro using Single Hadrons | 4-10-01 | Gaurang B. Yodh & Anthony Shoup |
| >> | Data and Monte Carlo - PE distributions | 4-26-01 | Julie McEnery |
| >> | Loose notes on Milagro calibration | 5-7-01 | Javier Bussons Gordo |
| >> | Sky Maps, Geomagnetic field and the Moon shadow | 5-8-01 | Lazar Fleysher & Allen I. Mincer |
| >> | Diurnal Effects and Systematic errors in Background Determination | 5-19-01; Revised 5-22-01 | Roman Fleysher & Peter Nemethy |
| >> | Temperature Dependance of Coaxial Cable Delay | 5-21-01 | Cy Hoffman |
| >> | GRB 970417a and nhit | 6-11-01 | Julie McEnery |
| >> | Some Thoughts on the 100 Tube Trigger Data on Nov 6 1997 | 6-11-01 | Julie McEnery |
| >> | Milagro Energy Response | 9-10-01 | Julie McEnery |
| >> | More on NHIT and Energy for GRB970417a | 10-1-01 | Brenda Dingus |
| >> | Analytic Study of Effect of Systematic Errors on
Scalar and Shower Comparisons (Also available as a Word Document) |
10-23-01 | Todd Haines |
| >> | GRB980329 - an interesting 'grito burst | 11-10-01 | Julie McEnery |
| >> | GRB010921 in Milagro | 11-20-01 | Julie McEnery |
| >> | A Core Fitting Algorithm Using the Inner Outriggers | 11-27-01 | Tyce DeYoung |
| >> | Background Rejection for Gamma Ray Bursts | 11-28-01 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | A Simple Low Threshold Trigger | 12-10-01 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | The Reading and Layout of MC output (v3.2) | 12-20-01 | Julie McEnery |
| >> | Systematic Uncertainties in Scaler Analyses | 1-2-02 | Julie McEnery |
| >> | Running Monte Carlo Simulations using WACT and Milagro | 1-24-02 | Robert Atkins |
| >> | A proposal to change the Milagro Trigger | 3-12-02 | E. Blaufuss, D. Noyes, E. Hays, J. McEnery, A. Smith, G. Sullivan |
| >> | VME Trigger Card Manual | 3-20-02; Revised 12-5-02 | Erik Blaufuss |
| >> | A Search for Long Duration Emission from AGN | 4-12-02 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | Transparencies of the Milagro Collaboration Meeting, February 10-11, 2002, Los Alamos, New Mexico | 4-17-02 | Elizabeth Hays, editor |
| >> | Replacement Baffles for Milagro | 5-2-02 | Linda Kelley, Julie McEnery, Michael Schneider & David A. Williams |
| >> | Correction to the Observed Excess due to the Background Estimation Method | 7-29-02 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | Primer for using CVS at Milagro | 8-6-02 | Erik Blaufuss |
| >> | First Results on Milagro Water Attenuation Using Measurements from the Upgraded TUBE | 8-14-02 | D. Coyne & M. Schneider |
| >> | Galactic Plane: Improved Statistical Power and a Check of Background Offset | 12-3-02 | Peter Nemethy & Roman Fleysher |
| >> | GRB021104, GRB021112, GRB021113: our annual fall outbreak of GRB in Milagro | 12-4-02 | Julie McEnery |
| >> | GRB021211 | 12-11-02 | Julie McEnery |
| >> | Zenith Alignment of the Milagro Data | 1-29-03 | Andrew Smith |
| >> | Simple Corefitting with Outriggers | 1-29-03 | Tyce DeYoung |
| >> | Cosmological Corrections and Calculating Intrinsic GRB Limits with Milagro | 3-18-03 | Miguel F. Morales |
| >> | Results of 2 Independent Searches for a Gamma-Ray Signal from the Galactic Plane | 3-20-03 | Erik Blaufuss and Andy Smith |
| >> | Uncertainties in the Time Swapping Background Estimate: Roman's Beta Term | 4-23-03 | James T. Linnemann |
| >> | Transparencies of the March 2003 Collaboration Meeting | 4-29-03 | David Noyes, editor |
| >> | Uncertainties in Weighted Monte Carlo Data | 5-27-03 | R. Ellsworth |
| >> | The Re-re-reconstructed Crab | 5-29-03 | Andy Smith |
| >> | Energy Response, IR Attenuation and AGN Sensitivity | 6-19-03 | Elizabeth Hays |
| >> | Does the Crab Data Agree with the gamma Monte Carlo? | 7-14-03 | J. Linnemann |
| >> | Transparencies of the July 2003 Collaboration Meeting | 7-30-03 | Magdalena Gonzalez, editor |
| >> | Studies of Low Energy Gammas and Event Backgrounds in Milagro | 7-31-03 | Magdalena Gonzalez, Jim Linnemann, David Noyes |
| >> | Laser and Fiber Status in Pre-Repair Timing Calibrations | 9-2-03 | Elizabeth Hays |
| >> | A Quick Comparison of Zenith_Align Methods Using the Crab and Mrk 421 | 9-4-03 | Elizabeth Hays |
| >> | Rescaling X2 for data collected between November 9,2002 and May 14, 2003 | 9-8-03 | Andy Smith |
| >> | Outrigger Calibration & Use in Reconstruction | 11-12-03 | Anthony Shoup |
| >> | Transparencies of the November 2003 Collaboration Meeting | 11-18-03 | David Williams, editor |
| >> | Measures of Significance in HEP and Astrophysics | 12-09-03; Revised 12-12-03 | James T. Linnemann |
| >> | Comparing Data and Predictions for TeV Candidate BL Lacs | 12-18-03 | Elizabeth Hays & Julie McEnery |
| >> | The Moon, as Seen Through Outriggers Progress Report | 1-15-04 | Anthony Shoup |
| >> | Comparison of Magnetic Deflection Calculations and Study of the Energy Dependence of the Deflection Direction | 1-22-04 | R. W. Ellsworth & A. I. Mincer |
| >> | Medium Burst Search update: Probability Distributions from 6/02--1/04 | 3-22-04 | Linda Kelley |
| >> | Compactness for Sources with Non-Crablike Spectra | 5-5-04 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | An All Sky Search for Extended Gamma-Ray Sources | 5-18-04 | Andy Smith |
| >> | Cosmic Ray Anisotropy: What's in the literature? How does Peter/Roman's fit compare with other Measurements? | 5-26-04 | Brenda Dingus |
| >> | GRB Sensitivity | 6-10-04 | David Noyes |
| >> | Completed Galactic Plane Analysis | 6-15-04 | Peter Nemethy and Roman Fleysher |
| >> | Scaler Data Web Site | 9-8-04 | Angela Marotta |
| >> | An Electronics Simulation and Improved Noise Model for Milagro | 9-10-04 | Andrew Smith |
| >> | gamma-h Separation and MARS | 10-7-04; Revised 10-26-04 | Curtis Lansdell |
| >> | A Note Comparing Two Low-Energy Hadronic Interaction Models for Monte Carlo Simulations | 12-6-04 | Dylan Spaulding |
| >> | The Events: Part 1 Scaler Data | 1-7-05 | Anthony L. Shoup |
| >> | GRB Sensitivity Update | 2-4-05 | David Noyes |
| >> | miniHAWC: A First Step Towards HAWC | 2-15-05 | Gus Sinnis |
| >> | Measuring the Energy Spectrum of a Source with Milagro | 2-17-05 | Gus Sinnis | >> | New Gamma-Hadron Separation Technique and Variables in Milagro | 2-23-05 | Aous Abdo | >> | Scaler Effective Areas for Protons | 3-16-05 | A. Shoup |
| >> | Construction of a Portable Detector for Background Measurements Towards the Development of HAWC | 4-27-05 | Dylan Spaulding |
| >> | Can the Diffuse Emission Detected by Milagro Be Given by the Sum of Fluxes of Unresolved Point Sources? | 5-11-05 | Sabrina Casanova and Brenda Dingus |
| >> | Timing Pedestal Shifting and the Crab | 6-8-05 | Curtis Lansdell |
| >> | A Weighting Analysis of Crab Data | 6-27-05 | Andrew Smith |
| >> | Gamma-Hadron Separation Update | 8-29-05 | Aous Abdo & Jim Linnemann |
| >> | Prompt and Delayed Emission from Gamma Ray Bursts | 8-30-05 | Sabrina Casanova |
| >> | Calculation of the Trigger Rate from Geant 4 Monte Carlo Data | 10-19-05 | R. W. Ellsworth |
| >> | A4, Milagro's New Gamma-Hadron Separation Variable and Spectral Index Estimator | 11-05-06; Revised 7-28-06 | Aous Abdo |
| >> | Energy Weighting with High Energy Cutoff | 12-25-05 | Aous Abdo |
| >> | A Very Short summary of The Spectral Index Estimation Analysis | 2-1-06 | Aous Abdo |
| >> | Results from the Geant4 Milagro Monte Carlo simulation | 4-15-06 | Vlasios Vasileiou |
| >> | Weighting for Bins of a Hadron Identification or Energy Variable | 4-17-06 | Jim Linnemann |
| >> | PMT tests at UMD | 5-1-06 | Vlasios Vasileiou |
| >> | Center for Energy Bin for Power Law Spectrum | 5-18-06 | Aous Abdo |
| >> | GRB Scaler Data Analysis using the Milagro Detector | 6-14-06 | Eitan Anzenberg |
| >> | A study on the stability of the Milagro data and its agreement with the MC from epoch to epoch | 6-16-06 | Vlasios Vasileiou |
| >> | Temperature and Pressure Corrections in the Milagro Scaler Rates | 7-4-06 | Eitan Anzenberg |
| >> | Source Extent and Location of the Cygnus Hot Spot | 7-24-06 | Gary Walker |
| >> | Estimation of Cosmic Ray Flux in Milagro | 7-27-06 | Andrew Smith |
| >> | Galactic Plane Flux Profiles | 11-15-06 | Curtis Lansdell |
| >> | A Method to Simulate the Trials Factor | 3-14-07 | Chuan Chen |
| >> | Large Scale Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy Analysis | 6-30-07 | Brian E. Kolterman |
| >> | Contribution of Heavy Elements to the Milagro Background Rate | 1-15-08 | Andrew Smith |