Dr David J. Bird's list of publications

( last updated September 16, 1997)

Ph.D. Thesis

"Arrival Directions of Medium Energy Cosmic Rays in the Southern Hemisphere"
Bird D.J. (1991)
University of Adelaide

Refereed Publications

"A search for Prompt Ultra-High-Energy Gamma Rays from Supernova 1987A"
Bird D.J., Bruce T.E.G., Ciampa D., Clay R.W., Edwards P.G., Gregory A.G.,
Patterson J.R., Protheroe R.J. (1987)
Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 7, (1), 73.

"A search for Ultra-High-Energy Gamma Rays from Supernova 1987A"
Ciampa D., Bird D.J., Clay R.W., Edwards P.G., Protheroe R.J. (1988)
Astrophysical Journal Letters, 326, L9.

"Cosmic Ray Anisotropy below 10^15eV"
Bird D.J., Clay R.W., Edwards P.G. (1988)
Australian Journal of Physics, 42, 465.

"Development of the Buckland Park Air Shower Array for Anisotropy Measurements"
Bird D.J. and Clay R.W. (1988)
Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 8, (1), 46.

"Search for Ultra-High-Energy Gamma Rays from SN1987A"
Bird D.J. Ciampa D., Clay R.W. (1988)
Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 8, (1), 52.

"Upper Limit to the number of Galactic Sources of Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Rays"
Bird D.J., Clay R.W., Edwards P.G. (1989)
Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 8, (2), 159.

"Search for Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Rays from Centaurus A"
Bird D.J. and Clay R.W. (1989)
Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 8, (3), 266.

"An unusually strong Einstein ring in the radio source 1830-211"
Jauncey D.L., et al. (+ 33 others) (1991)
Nature, 352, 132.

"Cosmic Ray Composition Around 10^18eV"
Gaisser T.K., et al. (+ 22 others) (1993)
Physical Review D, 47, 1919.

"Evidence for Correlated Changes in the Spectrum and Composition of Cosmic Rays at Extremely High Energies"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 22 others) (1993)
Physical Review Letters, 71, 3401.

"A Study of the Chemical Composition of Cosmic Rays Around 10^18eV"
Gaisser T.K., et al. (+ 19 others) (1993)
Comments Astrophys., 17, 103.

"The Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum Observed By The Fly's Eye"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 18 others) (1994)
Astrophysical Journal, 424, 491-502.

"The Calibration of the Absolute Sensitivity of Photomultiplier Tubes in the High Resolution Fly's Eye Detector"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 12 others) (1994)
Nuclear Instruments and Measurements, Section A, 349, 592-599.

"Detection of a Cosmic Ray with Measured Energy Well Beyond the Expected Spectral Cutoff Due to Cosmic Microwave Background"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 16 others) (1995)
The Astrophysical Journal ,441, 144-151.

In Preparation

"The Cosmic Ray Anisotropy at PeV Energies"
Clay R.W., Smith A.G.K. & Bird D.J. (1996)
(submitted to Astroparticle Physics)

Other Publications

"Australian Radio Observations of SN1987A : A Progress Report"
Reynolds J.E., et al. (+ 19 others), (1988)
Proceedings of ESO Conference on SN1987A, (ed Garching)

"Properties of Extensive Air Showers with sea level sizes of about 10^5 particles"
Bird D.J. and Clay R.W. (1990)
Proceedings of the XXI Cosmic Ray Conference (Adelaide), 3, 139.

"Southern Hemisphere VLBI with VSOP"
Jauncey D.L., et al. (+ 25 others), (1991)
Frontiers of VLBI, (eds Hirabayashi H. et al.), 203.

"The High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes): Parameters and Motivation"
Borodovsky L., et al. (+ 25 others), (1992)
Proceedings of the XXII Cosmic Ray Conference (Dublin), 2, 688.

"Description and Status of the High Resolution (HiRes) Fly's Eye Experiment"
Au W., et al. (+ 26others), (1992)
Proceedings of the XXII Cosmic Ray Conference (Dublin), 2, 692.

"Observation of Real and Simulated Showers using the First Two High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) Mirrors"
Borodovsky L., et al. (+ 25 others), (1992)
Proceedings of the XXII Cosmic Ray Conference (Dublin), 2, 696.

"Cosmic Ray Composition Around 10^18 eV"
Gaisser T.K., et al. (+ 19 others), (1993)
Proceedings of the 7th Division of Particles and Fields Meeting (Batavia, Illinois),(World Scientific), 2, 1382.

"The High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) Prototype Detector"
Boyer J., et al. (+ 22 others), (1993)
Proceedings of the 7th Division of Particles and Fields Meeting (Batavia, Illinois),(World Scientific), 2, 1385.

"The Fly's Eye Extremely High Energy Cosmic Ray Spectrum"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 17 others), (1993)
Proceedings of the XXIII International Cosmic Ray Conference (Calgary), 2, 34.

"The Cosmic Ray Composition Above 0.1 EeV"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 18 others), (1993)
Proceedings of the XXIII International Cosmic Ray Conference (Calgary), 2, 38.

"A Fly's Eye Search for Point Sources of EeV Air Showers"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 15 others), (1993)
Proceedings of the XXIII International Cosmic Ray Conference (Calgary), 2, 30.

"Anisotropy Analyses of EeV Air Showers Measured by the Fly's Eye"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 15 others), (1993)
Proceedings of the XXIII International Cosmic Ray Conference (Calgary), 2, 51.

"Anisotropy Analysis from Stereo Fly's Eye Data"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 15 others), (1993)
Proceedings of the XXIII International Cosmic Ray Conference (Calgary), 2, 55.

"The High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) Project"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 22 others), (1993)
Proceedings of the XXIII International Cosmic Ray Conference (Calgary), 2, 458.

"The HiRes Fly's Eye Prototype Detector - A Status Report"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 22 others), (1993)
Proceedings of the XXIII International Cosmic Ray Conference (Calgary), 2, 462.

"Coincident observation of air showers by the HiRes prototype and CASA/MIA experiments"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 37 others), (1993)
Proceedings of the XXIII International Cosmic Ray Conference (Calgary), 4, 283.

"Reconstruction Techniques and Tests Using the HiRes Prototype"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 22 others), (1993)
Proceedings of the XXIII International Cosmic Ray Conference (Calgary), 2, 454.

"Electronics and Data Acquisition System for the HiRes Prototype"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 22 others), (1993)
Proceedings of the XXIII International Cosmic Ray Conference (Calgary), 2, 619.

"Calibration of Photomultiplier Tubes for the HiRes Experiment"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 22 others), (1993)
Proceedings of the XXIII International Cosmic Ray Conference (Calgary), 2, 450.

"Performance of a Prototype FADC Electronics System for the HIRES Fly's Eye"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 22 others), (1993)
Proceedings of the XXIII International Cosmic Ray Conference (Calgary), 2, 466.

"The Cosmic Ray Composition Above 0.1 EeV -- Highlight Talk"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 18 others), (1993)
Proceedings of the XXIII International Cosmic Ray Conference (Calgary), 5, 447.

"Recent Results from the Fly's Eye Experiment"
Bird D.J., et al. (+ 18 others), (1994)
Currents in High-Energy Astrophysics - Proceedings of the 9th International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics (Erice, Italy) (eds. Shapiro M.M., et al.), NATO ASI Series, C 458, 123.

"The HiRes Fly's Eye Detector"
Bird D.J. (1994)
Currents in High-Energy Astrophysics - Proceedings of the 9th International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics (Erice, Italy) (eds. Shapiro M.M., et al.), NATO ASI Series, C 458 , 135.

"A Data Acquisition System for TeV Stereo Imaging Telescopes"
Rose H.J., et al. (+ 9 others), (1995)
Proceedings of the XXIV Cosmic Ray Conference (Rome), 3, 766.

"Upper Limits on TeV Gamma-ray Emission from EGRET-detected GeV Gamma-ray Sources"
Quinn J., et al. (+ 28 others), (1995)
Proceedings of the XXIV Cosmic Ray Conference (Rome), 2, 366.

"Observations of Markarian 421 by the Whipple Observatory Collaboration"
Lamb R.C. et al. (+ 27 others), (1995)
Proceedings of the XXIV Cosmic Ray Conference (Rome), 2, 491.

"Searches for TeV Gamma-Rays In Classical Gamma-Ray Bursts"
Connaughton V., et al. (+ 24 others), (1995)
Proceedings of the XXIV Cosmic Ray Conference (Rome), 2, 96.

"Observations of TeV Gamma-Rays from Supernova Remnants"
Lessard R.W., et al. (+ 26 others), (1995)
Proceedings of the XXIV Cosmic Ray Conference (Rome), 2, 475.

"Calibration Techniques for Air-Cherenkov Telescopes"
Biller S.D., et al. (+ 24 others), (1995)
Proceedings of the XXIV Cosmic Ray Conference (Rome), 3, 412.

"The High Resolution Fly's Eye Project"
Bird D.J. et al. (+ 26 others), (1995)
Proceedings of the XXIV Cosmic Ray Conference (Rome), 3, 504.

"Multi-Component Observations of 10^17 eV EAS with the CASA-MIA and Hires Detectors"
Bird D.J. et al. (+ 41 others), (1995)
Proceedings of the XXIV Cosmic Ray Conference (Rome) 2, 760.

"Preliminary Analysis of Monocular HiRes Prototype Data"
Bird D.J. et al. (+ 23 others), (1995)
Proceedings of the XXIV Cosmic Ray Conference (Rome) 3, 500.

"The Use of GPS Clocks for High Relative Timing Accuracy Between HiRes Sites"
Bird D.J. et al.(+ 24 others), (1995)
Proceedings of the XXIV Cosmic Ray Conference (Rome) 3, 746.

"Cosmic Ray Shower Maximum in the 0.01 to 1 EeV Region - Results from Hires/FE2 Coincident Data"
Bird D.J. et al. (+ 22 others), (1995)
Proceedings of the XXIV Cosmic Ray Conference (Rome) 2, 718.

"Atmospheric Monitoring for Fluorescence Detector Experiments"
Bird D.J. et al. (+ 22 others), (1995)
Proceedings of the XXIV Cosmic Ray Conference (Rome) 3, 560.

"The Hires2 Prototype Detector and Coincident Measurements with Hires1"
Bird D.J. et al. (+ 23 others), (1995)
Proceedings of the XXIV Cosmic Ray Conference (Rome) 3, 548.

"LaserScope - An atmospheric monitoring system for nitrogen fluorescence cosmic ray detectors"
Bird D.J., (1996)
(submitted to the Proceedings of the Auger Meeting on Nitrogen Fluorescence Cosmic Ray Detectors (Salt Lake City))

"Testing the High Resolution Fly's Eye Using LaserScope"
Abu-Zayyad T. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 5, 349-352.

"Cloud Detection for Fluorescence and Cerenkov Detectors"
Bird D.J. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 5, 353-356.

"Atmospheric Monitoring at the High Resolutio n Fly's Eye Experiment : Atmospheric Scattering"
Abu-Zayyad T. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 5, ,345-352.

"Physics with HiRes Stage 0.5 and Stage 2"
Abu-Zayyad T. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 5, 321-324.

"The Capabilities of the High Resolution Fly's Eye Detector"
Abu-Zayyad T. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 5, 325-328.

"Status of the High Resolution Fly's Eye Detector : Operation and Installation"
Abu-Zayyad T. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 5, 329-332.

"The HiRes Detector : Absolute Calibration and Alignment"
Abu-Zayyad T. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 5, 333-336.

"A Monte Carlo Study of Reconstruction of Monocular Events having limited track lengths for the High Resolution Fly's Eye"
Abu-Zayyad T. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 5, 337-340.

"Stereo Reconstruction of EAS with the HiRes Detector"
Abu-Zayyad T. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 5, 341-344.

"Radio Controlled Light Sources for Atmospheric Monitoring at Hires"
Abu-Zayyad T. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 5, 357-360.

"Atmospheric Monitoring at the High Resolution Fly's Eye : Data from the HiRes2 Flasher Array"
Abu-Zayyad T. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 5, 361-364.

"Atmospheric Monitoring at the High Resolution Fly's Eye : Monitoring Data via the Hires Laser/LIDAR system"
Abu-Zayyad T. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 5, 365-368.

"Cosmic Ray Composition Measured by HiRes in Coincidence with FE2"
Abu-Zayyad T. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 4,21-24.

"Multi-Component Observations of 10^17 eV EAS With a Hybrid Fluorescence and Surface Detector"
Bird D.J. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 4,29-32.

"Trigger Sensitivity of the FADC Instrumented HiRes Fly's Eye"
Abu-Zayyad T. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 7,209-212.

"Calibration and Stability Measurements of a FADC Based Data Acquisition System for the HiRes Fly's Eye Experiment"
Abu-Zayyad T. et al (1997)
Proceedings of the 25th ICRC (Durban), 7, 213-216.