GRIPS - Gamma-Ray Imaging, Polarimetry and Spectroscopy

Experimental Astronomy

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 551-582

  Greiner, Jochen ^a   Mannheim, Karl ^b   Aharonian, Felix ^c   Ajello, Marco ^c   Balasz, Lajos G ^c   Barbiellini, Guido ^c   Bellazzini, Ronaldo ^c   Bishop, Shawn ^c   Bisnovatij Kogan, Gennady S ^c   Boggs, Steven ^c   Bykov, Andrej ^c   DiCocco, Guido ^c   Diehl, Roland ^c   Elsässer, Dominik ^c   Foley, Suzanne ^c   Fransson, Claes ^c   Gehrels, Neil ^c   Hanlon, Lorraine ^c   Hartmann, Dieter ^c   Hermsen, Wim ^c   Hillebrandt, Wolfgang ^c   Hudec, Rene ^c   Iyudin, Anatoli ^c   Jose, Jordi ^c   Kadler, Matthias ^c   Kanbach, Gottfried ^c   Klamra, Wlodek ^c   Kiener, Jürgen ^c   Klose, Sylvio ^c   Kreykenbohm, Ingo ^c   Kuiper, Lucien M ^c   Kylafis, Nikos ^c   Labanti, Claudio ^c   Langanke, Karlheinz ^c   Langer, Norbert ^c   Larsson, Stefan ^c   Leibundgut, Bruno ^c   Laux, Uwe ^c   Longo, Francesco ^c   Maeda, Kei'ichi ^c   Marcinkowski, Radoslaw ^c   Marisaldi, Martino ^c   McBreen, Brian ^c   McBreen, Sheila ^c   Meszaros, Attila ^c   Nomoto, Ken'ichi ^c   Pearce, Mark ^c   Peer, Asaf ^c   Pian, Elena ^c   Prantzos, Nikolas ^c   Raffelt, Georg ^c   Reimer, Olaf ^c   Rhode, Wolfgang ^c   Ryde, Felix ^c   Schmidt, Christian ^c   Silk, Joe ^c   Shustov, Boris M ^c   Strong, Andrew ^c   Tanvir, Nial ^c   Thielemann, Friedrich Karl ^c   Tibolla, Omar ^c   Tierney, David ^c   Trümper, Joachim ^c   Varshalovich, Dmitry A ^c   Wilms, Jörn ^c   Wrochna, Grzegorz ^c   Zdziarski, Andrzej ^c   Zoglauer, Andreas ^c   more..

^a MPI fur Extraterrestrische Physik   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Compton and Pair creation telescope; Early Universe; Gamma ray bursts; Nucleosynthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866944931     PISSN: 09226435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-011-9255-0     Document Type: Article

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