GRIPS - The potential of a future MeV survey

Authors :: Greiner, J.
Kanbach, G.
Mannheim, K.
Publication Year :: 2011
Abstract: We describe the potential of GRIPS, a future MeV mission. The Gamma-Ray Imaging, Polarimetry and Spectroscopy ("GRIPS") concept combines a Compton and pair telescope, and will be a very sensitive polarimeter. GRIPS would perform a continuously scanning all-sky survey from 200 keV to 80 MeV achieving a sensitivity which is better by a factor of 40 compared to the previous missions in this energy range.<br />Comment: to appear in "Gamma-ray Astrophysics in the Multimessenger context", Proc. Scineghe conf. Trieste, Sep. 2010, Il Nuovo Cimento C