Gamma-ray astronomy
Dedicated polarimeter design for hard x-ray and soft gamma-ray astronomy
... X-ray astronomy, gamma-ray, gamma-ray astronomy, polarimetry, polarization, gamma-ray burst, solar flare ...
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Towards open and reproducible multi-instrument analysis in gamma-ray astronomy
... VHE gamma-ray astronomy is expected to start with the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA; Acharya et ...VHE gamma-ray data is being carried out within the “Data formats for ...
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Open high-level data formats and software for gamma-ray astronomy
... Currently the process of specification writing is informal and the data format specifications currently written should be seen as proposals, not final standards. We are following the “release early and often” philosophy, ...
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Cosmic-ray world with gamma-ray astronomy: a wealth on information, an even more open issue
... objects, gamma-ray astronomy has a fundamental role in verifying this ...Despite gamma-ray GeV satellites (AGILE and Fermi-LAT), and TeV instruments (HESS, MAGIC and VERITAS) collected ...
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Characterization of single-sided charge-sharing CZT strip detectors for gamma-ray astronomy
... for gamma-ray astronomy", Proc. SPIE 6319, Hard X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Detector Physics and Penetrating Radiation Systems VIII, 63190A (August 30, 2006); ...
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Study of Persistent and Flaring Gamma-Ray Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei with the MAGIC Telescopes and Prospects for Future Open Data Formats in Gamma-Ray Astronomy
... Reproducible Gamma-Ray Astronomy T his chapter, along with Chapter 2, constitute the technical section of this ...VHE gamma-ray astronomy in the previous chapter, here we discuss ...
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Python for gamma-ray astronomy
... -ray astronomy has seen a remarkable range of exciting new results in the high-energy and very-high en- ergy ...-ray astronomy remain unchanged, recent observational re- sults have contributed ...
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Highlights of GeV gamma-ray astronomy
... high-energy gamma rays are primarily produced by high-energy particle interactions, the gamma- ray survey of the sky by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Tele- scope offers a view of sites of ...
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Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with Gamma-Ray Astronomy
... The process of adiabatic growth may be valid for the SMBH at the GC, but may have been disrupted by dynamical processes such as mergers and gravitational scattering off of stars. However, IMBHs with mass 10 2 < M/M ⊙ < ...
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Gamma ray astronomy in the low energy range
... However, any gamma ray lines detected would have given an observable feature^despite the lower energy resolution of LEG4 than solid state detectors, the sensitive area possible with L[r] ...
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The origin of cosmic rays and TeV gamma-ray astronomy
... incoming gamma ray; its energy can be estimated by the signal ...by gamma rays. Cosmic ray air show- ers are in general much more irregular with significantly more energy transferred to larger ...
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Characterization of a versatile and sensitive detector for gamma-ray astronomy
... -ray astronomy, from the emission mechanisms resulting in the produc- tion of -rays throughout the Universe to a brief introduction of the history of -ray astronomy, with a particular emphasis ...
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Development of a telescope for medium-energy gamma-ray astronomy
... Keywords: Gamma ray, telescope, pair production, polarimeter, time projection chamber ...MeV) gamma-ray science has been ...follow-on gamma-ray ...
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The CAT Imaging Telescope for Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
... – The C AT imaging telescope achieves a relatively low energy threshold ( ∼ 250 GeV) despite its moderate reflector area ( ∼ 18 m 2 ). The threshold of an ACT being essentially fixed by [r] ...
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Gas micro-well track imaging detectors for gamma- ray astronomy
... of gamma rays and particles with matter are simulated, including delayed emission from radio-activation, the appropriate detector response is applied, and Compton events are reconstructed from the simulated energy ...
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Advancements in Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy with Applications to the Study of Cosmic Rays
... In order to investigate a possible steepening of the γ-ray spectrum between the Fermi- LAT and VERITAS energies, or a cutoff at TeV energies, we fit two power laws with expo- nential cutoffs. The first one, shown ...
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Future Extensive Air Shower arrays: From Gamma-Ray Astronomy to Cosmic Rays
... It is known that the ensembles of the brightest sources in the GeV and TeV ranges do not coincide exactly, with some bright sources detected by Fermi relatively faint at TeV energy and vice-versa. It is therefore ...
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Development of the Advance Energetic Pair Telescope (AdEPT) for medium-energy gamma- ray astronomy
... Solar Flares: Above 10 MeV solar flare emissions come from primary electron Bremsstrahlung and a mixture of secondary radiation of nuclear origin. Identifying and quantifying the separate components places strong ...
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Scintillator gamma-ray detectors with silicon photomultiplier readouts for high-energy astronomy
... 4. GAMMA-RAY SPECTROSCOPY WITH ALTERNATE SIPMS Although the performance obtained using the Hamamatsu MPPCs is quite encouraging, we have begun investigating alternate SiPMs for use in ...
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CiteSeerX — after the gamma-ray burst ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
... 12 Danish Space Research Institute, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark Received 24 July 1998 / Accepted 1 September 1998 Abstract. We present the results of the monitoring of the GRB 970111 field that started 19 hours after the ...
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