Pre-flight calibration of the prototype nuclear compton telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6266 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bowen, Jason D ^a   Bandstra, Mark E ^a   Boggs, Steven E ^a,b   Coburn, Wayne ^a   Wunderer, Cornelia B ^a   Lin, Robert P ^a,b   Amman, Mark ^b   Luke, Paul N ^b   Burks, Morgan T ^c   Craig, William ^c   Madden, Norman W ^c   Smith, David M ^d   Von Ballmoos, Peter ^e   Jean, Pierre ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Balloon payloads; Compton telescopes; Gamma ray polarization; Gamma ray spectroscopy; Germanium detectors

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; DATA REDUCTION; DETECTORS; GAMMA RAYS; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

BALLOON PAYLOADS; COMPTON TELESCOPES; GAMMA-RAY POLARIZATION; GAMMA-RAY SPECTROSCOPY; GERMANIUM DETECTORS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749008522     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672252     Document Type: Conference Paper

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