Overview of the nuclear compton telescope

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1250-1256

  Bellm, Eric C ^a   Boggs, Steven E ^a   Bandstra, Mark S ^a   Bowen, Jason D ^a   Perez Becker, Daniel ^a   Wunderer, Cornelia B ^a   Zoglauer, Andreas ^a   Amman, Mark ^b   Luke, Paul N ^b   Chang, Hsiang Kuang ^c   Chiu, Jeng Lun ^c   Liang, Jau Shian ^c   Chang, Yuan Hann ^d   Liu, Zong Kai ^d   Hung, Wei Che ^d   Lin, Chih Hsun ^e   Huang, Minghuey A ^f   Jean, Pierre ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL SPACE ORGANIZATION   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g IRAP   (France)

Author keywords

Compton imaging; Gamma ray astronomy detectors; Gamma ray imaging; Germanium radiation detectors

Indexed keywords

3D TRACKING; ASTROPHYSICAL SOURCES; AUSTRALIA; BACKGROUND REJECTION; BALLOON FLIGHTS; COMPTON IMAGING; COMPTON TELESCOPE; FLIGHT SYSTEMS; GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY DETECTORS; GAMMA-RAY IMAGING; HIGH-PURITY GERMANIUM; LONG-DURATION FLIGHTS; NEW MEXICO; NUCLEAR LINES; PHOTON INTERACTIONS; READOUT ELECTRONICS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; GERMANIUM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIATION DAMAGE; RADIATION DETECTORS; STARS; TELESCOPES;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 67649211044     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2016091     Document Type: Article

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