Doppler broadening as a lower limit to the angular resolution of next generation Compton telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1302-1309

  Zoglauer, Andreas ^a,b   Kanbach, Gottfried ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b MPI für Extraterr Physik ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Angular Resolution; Compton Scattering; Doppler Broadening; Gamma Ray Astronomy

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DOPPLER EFFECT; GAMMA RAYS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; XENON;

COMPTON SCATTERING;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038633379     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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