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PoGOLite: A balloon-borne soft gamma-ray polarimeter

PoGOLite: A balloon-borne soft gamma-ray polarimeter

Authors :
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
Y. Kanai
Source :
2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC).
Publication Year :
2009
Publisher :
IEEE, 2009.

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.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC)
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........5f879e06952a4bd90b102432d014613b
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/nssmic.2009.5401588