1. PoGOLite: A balloon-borne soft gamma-ray polarimeter
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Hiromitsu Takahashi, N. Kawai, Takaaki Tanaka, Stefan Rydström, Felix Ryde, Pau Mallol, Hiroaki Yoshida, K. Maeda, Jun Kataoka, H. G. Floren, T. Takahashi, Y. Miyamoto, G. S. Varner, T. Thurston, S. Gunji, G. M. Madejski, Mózsi Kiss, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Mark Pearce, T. Kamae, Yasushi Fukazawa, M. Jackson, H. Tajima, J-E. Stromberg, C. Marini Bettolo, S. Larsson, Göran Olofsson, Magnus Axelsson, Wlodzimierz Klamra, and Y. Kanai
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Aerospace instrumentation ,Physics ,Optics ,business.industry ,Gamma ray ,Astronomy ,Polarimeter ,Balloon ,business - Abstract
PoGOLite is a balloon-borne X-ray polarimeter, designed to measure the polarization of 25–80 keV X-rays. It is scheduled for a pathfinder flight in August 2010. This paper outlines the scientific motivation and the status of preparations of the payload.
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- 2009
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