Development of the TIGRE Compton Telescope for Intermediate-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 251-257

  O'Neill, T J ^a   Bhattacharya, D ^a   Polsen, M ^a   Zych, A D ^a   Samimi, J ^b   Akyuz, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Silicon strip detector; space instrumentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008049556     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.809700     Document Type: Article

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