Development of polarimeter for gamma-ray bursts onboard the solar-powered sail mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6266 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Yonetoku, Daisuke ^a   Murakami, Toshio ^a   Masui, Hiroki ^a   Kodaira, Hironobu ^a   Aoyama, Yuka ^a   Gunji, Shuichi ^b   Tokanai, Fuyuki ^b   Mihara, Tatehiro ^c  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gamma ray burst; Polarization; Satellite

Indexed keywords

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; GALAXIES; GAMMA RAYS; PHOSPHORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

CRUISING PHASE; GAMMA-RAY BURST (GRB); INTERPLANETARY NETWORK (IPN); SOLAR POWERED SAIL SPACECRAFT;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 33749025563     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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