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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Journal: Physics and Mathematics</journal-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Научно-технические ведомости СПбГПУ. Физико-математические науки</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2304-9782, 2618-8686, 2405-7223</issn>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">29</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>The influence of the night-sky background on ground-based observations of gamma-ray bursts in the range between 1 and 10 GeV</article-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Влияние оптического фона ночного неба на наземные наблюдения гамма-всплесков в диапазоне 1 - 10 ГэВ</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Vasil’ev</surname>
            <given-names>Gennadiy</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>Gennady.Vasilyev@mail.ioffe.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Kholupenko</surname>
            <given-names>Evgeniy</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>eugene@astro.ioffe.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Yablokov</surname>
            <given-names>Sergey</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>Yablokov S.N.</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Bayko</surname>
            <given-names>Denis</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>baiko@astro.ioffe.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Bykov</surname>
            <given-names>Andrey</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <email>byk@astro.ioffe.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Krasil’shchikov</surname>
            <given-names>Alexander</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>kra@astro.ioffe.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Pavlov</surname>
            <given-names>Georgiy</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>pavlov@astro.psu.edu</email>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff1">Ioffe Institute</aff>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2012-09-10">
        <day>10</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2012</year>
      </pub-date>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <issue-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">153</issue-id>
      <fpage>191</fpage>
      <lpage>195</lpage>
      <abstract xml:lang="en">
        <p>The influence of night-sky background on detecting cosmic gamma-ray bursts and measurements of their light curves with ground-based Cherenkov telescopes in the range between 1 and 10 GeV is considered. It is shown that the probability of registration of Cherenkov flashes from cosmic gamma-quanta decreases significantly at energies less than 3 GeV under the influence of night sky optical background even if the sensitivity of detecting units is better than that of modern Cherenkov telescopes.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group xml:lang="en">
        <kwd>gamma-rays</kwd>
        <kwd>cherenkov radiation</kwd>
        <kwd>extensive atmospheric showers</kwd>
        <kwd>gamma-ray bursts</kwd>
        <kwd>night-sky background</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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