Cosmic-ray background flux model based on a Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope balloon flight engineering model

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 614, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 1113-1123

  Mizuno, T ^a   Kamae, T ^a   Godfrey, G ^a   Handa, T ^a,f   Thompson, D J ^b   Lauben, D ^c   Fukazawa, Y ^d   Ozaki, M ^e  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^f Comp Software Devmt Company Ltd ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Balloons; Cosmic rays; Gamma rays: observations; Instrumentation: miscellaneous

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044237988     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/423801     Document Type: Article

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