30TH INTERNATIONAL COSMIC RAY CONFERENCE The First Observation with the Fluorescence Detectors of the Telescope Array Ex- periment
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The fluorescence measurement is the key in observations of ultra high energy cosmic rays and in determinations of their primary energies in the TA experiment. Almost all fluorescence detectors of TA is in operation from June 2007. Here, we describe the characteristics of the telescopes and the status of the associated systems, and also present preliminary results from the first observation run with the full telescope configurations.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008