Left: Dr. David Nitz was honored by Argentine Governor Celso Alejandro Jaque for his contributions to the scientific advancement of the search for the unknown sources of the highest energy cosmic rays. The ceremony took place during the inauguration of the Auger Observatory on November 14, 2008, in Malargüe, Argentina.
Recent Publications
Search for Ultra-High Energy Gamma Rays from EGRET Detected Active Galactic
Nuclei (with M. Catanese et al.), Astrophys. J. 469, 572
(1996).
High Statistics Search for Ultra-High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from
Cygnus X-3 and Hercules X-1 (with A. Borione et al.), Phys. Rev. D55,
1714 (1997).
Search for Ultrahigh Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the Crab Nebula
and Pulsar (with A. Borione et al.), Astrophys. J. 481,
313 (1997).
Limits on the Isotropic Diffuse Flux of Ultrahigh Energy
Gamma-Radiation (with M.C. Chantell et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 79,
1805 (1997).
Constraints on Gamma-ray Emission from the Galactic Plane at 300 TeV
(with A. Borione et al.), Astrophys. J. 493, 175 (1998).
Triggering and Data Acquistition Systems for the Auger Observatory
(D. Nitz), IEEE Transactions on Nucl. Science 45,
1824 (1998).
The Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum with CASA-MIA (with
M.A.K. Glasmacher et al.), Astropart. Phys. 10, 291 (1999).
The Cosmic Ray Composition between 1014 and 1016 eV (with
M.A.K. Glasmacher et al.), Astropart. Phys. 12, 1 (1999).
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