TEV GAMMA-RAYS FROM PSR 1706-44

Observations made with the University of Durham Mark 6 atmospheric Cer enkov telescope confirm that PSR B1706-44 is a very high energy gamma- ray emitter. There is no indication from our dataset that the very hig h energy gamma-rays are pulsed, in contrast to the findings at < 20 Ge V, which indicate that more than 80% of the flux is pulsed. The flux a t E > 300 GeV is estimated to be (3.9 +/- 0.7(stat)) x 10(-11) cm(-2) s(-1). (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.