Imaging and burst location with the EXIST high-energy telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7435, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Skinner, Gerald K ^a,b   Barthelmy, Scott ^a   Finger, Mark H ^c   Hong, Jae Sub ^d   Jernigan, Garrett ^e   Sturner, Steven J ^a,f   Allen, Branden T ^d   Grindlay, Jonathan E ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

EXIST; Gamma ray bursts; Gamma ray imaging; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

ALL-SKY; ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS; ANALYTIC ANALYSIS; ANGULAR RESOLUTION; BASELINE CONCEPTS; BURST LOCATION; CODED MASKS; COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEM; CONTINUOUSLY SCANNING; ENERGY BAND; EXIST; GAMMA RAY BURSTS; GAMMA-RAY IMAGING; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH ENERGY TELESCOPES; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; INFRA RED; KEY PARTS; LOCALIZATION PROCEDURE; LOW ENERGIES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NEAR-REAL TIME; SOFT X-RAY; SPATIAL SCALE; STATISTICAL PHOTONS; TECHNICAL WORKING GROUPS; WIDE FIELD OF VIEW; X-RAY BACKGROUND; XRAY IMAGING;

BAND STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; INSTRUMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION; RADIO TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT; STARS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77958140313     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.830184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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