2011年
SMILE-II: OBSERVATION OF CELESTIAL AND ATMOSPHEREIC MEV GAMMA RAYS USING A BALLOON-BORNE WIDE FIELDS OF VIEW ELECTRON-TRACKING COMPTON CAMERA
20TH ESA SYMPOSIUM ON EUROPEAN ROCKET AND BALLOON PROGRAMMES AND RELATED RESEARCH
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- 700
- 号
- 開始ページ
- 567
- 終了ページ
- 571
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 出版者・発行元
- ESA PUBLICATIONS DIVISION C/O ESTEC
We have developed an Electron Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) as an MeV gamma-ray telescope in the next generation. The ETCC consists of a gaseous time projection chamber and a position sensitive scintillation camera. We had launched a small size ETCC loaded on a balloon in 2006, and it was successful to obtain the fluxes of diffuse cosmic and atmospheric gamma rays in the energy range between 125 keV and 1.25 MeV. As the next flight (SMILE-II), we planned a long duration flight using a circumpolar balloon launched from Kiruna, and it will observe the celestial bright sources and the atmospheric gamma-ray burst due to the relativistic electron from the radiation belt. In this paper, we report the concepts of our detector and the performance of the SMILE-II prototype.
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- ID情報
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- ISSN : 0379-6566
- SCOPUS ID : 84859894333
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000324759000087