1. An imaging telescope for soft gamma-ray astronomy: The preliminary in-flight tests
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A.J. Court, P. Ubertini, E. Morelli, G. Spada, G. Di Cocco, Alessandro Traci, Angela Bazzano, Ezio Caroli, R. C. Butler, Alda Rubini, C. La Padula, Gabriele E. Villa, O. Catani, A. Igiuni, John N. Carter, M. Santini, P. M. Charalambous, F. Polcaro, D. Ramsden, A. J. Dean, R. E. Baker, and L. Barbareschi
- Subjects
Physics ,Atmospheric Science ,High-energy astronomy ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Gamma ray ,Aerospace Engineering ,Astronomy ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,X-ray telescope ,Gamma-ray astronomy ,law.invention ,Telescope ,Geophysics ,Observational astronomy ,Space and Planetary Science ,law ,Ultraviolet astronomy ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Angular resolution - Abstract
A large area (6000 cm2) actively shielded low energy gamma-ray telescope is going to be built by an Anglo-Italian collaboration. The telescope, named ZEBRA, will be capable of producing images of the X and gamma ray sky in the energy range 0.015–20 MeV with an intrinsic angular resolution of a few tenths of a degree. A prototype detector has been built in order to experimentally study the main characteristics of the detection plane. The preliminary results obtained during a balloon flight from Trapani, Sicily in July 1981 are presented.
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- 1983