Observation of Crab Nebula with hard x-ray Polarimeter: PHENEX

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6686, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Gunji, S ^a   Sakurai, H ^a   Tokanai, F ^a   Kishimoto, Y ^a   Kanno, M ^a   Ishikawa, Y ^a   Hayashida, K ^b   Anabuki, N ^b   Tsunemi, H ^b   Mihara, T ^c   Kohama, M ^c   Suzuki, M ^c   Saito, Y ^d   Yamagami, T ^d  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crab Nebula; Hard X rays; PHENEX; Polarimetry

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PHOTODETECTORS; POLARIMETERS; X RAY OPTICS;

BALLOON-BORNE EXPERIMENTS; CRAB NEBULA; HARD X RAYS; X-RAY BAND;

STARS;

EID: 42449085275     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.738449     Document Type: Conference Paper

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