Low energy response of a prototype detector array for the PoGO astronomical hard X-ray polarimeter

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5898, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-11

  Kataoka, J ^a   Kanal, M ^a   Arimoto, T ^a   Ikagawa, T ^a   Saito, M ^a   Ueno, N ^a   Kawai, R ^a   Blandford, P ^b   Chen, T ^b   Kamae, G ^b   Madejski, T ^b   Mizuno, J ^b   Ng, H ^b   Tajima, T ^b   Thurston, L ^b   Barbier, A ^c   Harding, J ^c   Krizmanic, S ^c   Hunter, J ^c   Mitchell, R ^c   Streitmatter, E ^c   Groth, R ^d   Fernholtz, D ^d   Marlow, Y ^d   Saito, T ^e   Takahashi, S ^e   Gunji, H ^f   Sakurai, Y ^f   Fukazawa, V ^g   Anderson, P ^h   Carlson, W ^h   Klamra, M ^h   Pearce, M ^h   Suhonen, S ^h   Larsson, F ⁱ   Ryde, C I ⁱ   Bjornsson, G ⁱ   Bogaert, S ^j   Kishimoto, ^k   more..

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^f YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

ⁱ STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^j ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^k INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS STRUCTURE SCIENCE   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Balloon experiment; Polarimetry; Soft Gamma rays

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; GAMMA RAYS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOTONS; POLARIMETERS; SCINTILLATION; X RAYS;

BALLOON EXPERIMENT; PROTOTYPE DETECTOR ARRAY; SOFT GAMMA-RAYS; X-RAY POLARIMETER;

DETECTORS;

EID: 29344434925     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.613621     Document Type: Conference Paper

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