PoGOLite - A high sensitivity balloon-borne soft gamma-ray polarimeter

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 72-84

  Kamae, Tuneyoshi ^a   Andersson, Viktor ^a,b   Arimoto, Makoto ^c   Axelsson, Magnus ^d   Marini Bettolo, Cecilia ^b   Björnsson, Claes Ingvar ^d   Bogaert, Gilles ^e   Carlson, Per ^b   Craig, William ^a   Ekeberg, Tomas ^a,b   Engdegård, Olle ^b   Fukazawa, Yasushi ^f   Gunji, Shuichi ^g   Hjalmarsdotter, Linnea ^d   Iwan, Bianca ^a,b   Kanai, Yoshikazu ^c   Kataoka, Jun ^c   Kawai, Nobuyuki ^c   Kazejev, Jaroslav ^b   Kiss, Mózsi ^a,b   Klamra, Wlodzimierz ^b   Larsson, Stefan ^b,d   Madejski, Grzegorz ^a   Mizuno, Tsunefumi ^f   Ng, Johnny ^a   Pearce, Mark ^b   Ryde, Felix ^b   Suhonen, Markus ^a,b   Tajima, Hiroyasu ^a   Takahashi, Hiromitsu ^f   Takahashi, Tadayuki ^h   Tanaka, Takuya ^f   Thurston, Timothy ⁱ   Ueno, Masaru ^c   Varner, Gary ^j   Yamamoto, Kazuhide ^f   Yamashita, Yuichiro ^g   Ylinen, Tomi ^a,b   Yoshida, Hiroaki ^f   more..

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e LABORATOIRE LEPRINCE RINGUET   (France)

^f HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

ⁱ Thurston Co   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

active; binaries; detectors; Galaxies; general; Instrumentation; neutron; polarimetric; Pulsars; Stars; Techniques; X ray

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; ABSORPTION; ASTROPHYSICS; BALLOONS; COMPTON SCATTERING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMOLOGY; GAMMA RAYS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SCATTERING; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; STARS;

ACTIVE; BINARIES; DETECTORS; GALAXIES; GENERAL; INSTRUMENTATION; NEUTRON; POLARIMETRIC; PULSARS; TECHNIQUES; X-RAY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 51249100428     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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