CASTER - A scintillator-based black hole finder probe

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5488, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 944-955

  McConnell, M L ^a   Cherry, M L ^b   Guzik, T G ^b   Kippen, R M ^d   Ryan, J M ^a   Macri, J M ^a   Miller, R S ^e   Paciesas, W S ^e   Schaefer, B E ^b   Stacy, J G ^b,c   Wefel, J P ^b   Vestrand, W T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coded aperture imaging; Gamma rays; Hard x rays; Lanthanum bromide; Scintillator

Indexed keywords

DEMODULATION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE CODING; LANTHANUM ALLOYS; SCINTILLATION; SPACE FLIGHT; TELESCOPES;

CODED APERTURE IMAGING; CODED APERTURE SURVEY TELESCOPE FOR ENERGETIC RADIATION (CASTER); HARD X-RAYS; LANTHANUM BROMIDE;

SPACE PROBES;

EID: 10044274416     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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