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2012年

Development of electron tracking Compton camera for both balloon and future satellite experiments for MeV gamma-ray astronomy

SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2012: ULTRAVIOLET TO GAMMA RAY
  • Toru Tanimori
  • Masahiro Ikeno
  • Hidetoshi Kubo
  • Kentaro Miuchi
  • Shigeto Kabuki
  • Joseph D. Parker
  • Yuji Kishimoto
  • Shotaro Komura
  • Shunsuke Kurosawa
  • Satoru Iwaki
  • Tatsuya Sawano
  • Kiseki Nakamura
  • Yoshihiro Matsuoka
  • Tetsuya Mizumoto
  • Yasushi Sato
  • Manobu Tanaka
  • Atsushi Takada
  • Tomohisa Uchida
  • Kazuki Ueno
  • 全て表示

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記述言語
英語
掲載種別
DOI
10.1117/12.924242
出版者・発行元
SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING

In order to explore MeV gamma-ray astronomy, we have developed the Electron Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) consisting of a Time projection Chamber based on the micro pixel gas counter and pixel array scintillators. By measuring the track of a recoil electron in the TPC event by event, the ETCC measures the direction of each gamma-ray, and provides both good background rejection and an angular resolution over similar to 1 degree. A 1m-cubic size ETCC in satellite would be a good candidate for an All sky MeV gamma-ray survey of a wide band energy region of 0.1-100MeV with several ten times better sensitivity than COMPTEL. Already we carried out a balloon experiment with a small ETCC (Sub-MeV gamma ray Imaging Loaded-on-balloon Experiment: SMILE-I) in 2006, and measured diffuse cosmic and atmosphere gamma rays. We are now constructing a 30cm-cube ETCC to catch gamma-rays from the Crab and terrestrial gamma-ray bursts at the North Pole from 2013 (SMILE-II project). Terrestrial gamma-ray bursts are generated by relativistic electron precipitation in the Pole region. Recently performance of tracking a recoil electron has been dramatically improved, which may enable us to reach the ideal efficiency expected for the detector. In addition, we mention about the unique capability to find a high-z Gamma-Ray Bursts beyond z>10 by ETCC, in particular long duration GRBs over 1000 sec, which are expected to be due to POP-III stars.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924242
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000312391600010&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1117/12.924242
  • ISSN : 0277-786X
  • eISSN : 1996-756X
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000312391600010

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