| Autor: |
Yuan-Hann Chang, Wei-Che Hung, Eric C. Bellm, Chih-Hsun Lin, Paul N. Luke, Jeng-Lun Chiu, Andreas Zoglauer, Jau-Shian Liang, Minghuey A. Huang, Mark S. Bandstra, Pierre Jean, Mark Amman, Ray-Shine Run, Daniel Perez-Becker, Steven E. Boggs, Hsiang-Kuang Chang, Zhong-Kai Liu |
| Rok vydání: |
2010 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. |
| ISSN: |
0277-786X |
| DOI: |
10.1117/12.857526 |
| Popis: |
The Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) is a balloon-borne soft gamma-ray telescope. Its compact design uses cross-strip germanium detectors, allowing for wide-field imaging with excellent efficiency from 0.2-10 MeV. Additionally, the Compton imaging principle employed by NCT provides polarimetric sensitivity to several MeV. NCT is optimized for the study of astrophysical sources of nuclear line emission. A ten-detector instrument participated in the 2010 balloon campaign in Alice Springs, Australia, in order to conduct observations of the Galactic Center Region. Unfortunately, a launch accident caused major damage to the payload, and no flight was possible. We discuss the design, calibration, and performance of the instrument as well as prospects for its future. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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