Preliminary results from the Spring 2010 balloon campaign of the Nuclear Compton Telescope

Jeng Lun Chiu; Eric C. Bellm; Steven E. Boggs; Hsiang Kuang Chang; Yuan Hann Chang; Minghuey A. Huang; Mark Amman; Mark S. Bandstra; Wei Che Hung; Jau Shian Liang; Chih Hsun Lin; Zhong Kai Liu; Paul N. Luke; Daniel Perez-Becker; Ray Shine Run; Cornelia B. Wunderer; Andreas Zoglauer

doi:10.1117/12.860921

Preliminary results from the Spring 2010 balloon campaign of the Nuclear Compton Telescope

Jeng Lun Chiu, Eric C. Bellm, Steven E. Boggs, Hsiang Kuang Chang, Yuan Hann Chang, Minghuey A. Huang, Mark Amman, Mark S. Bandstra, Wei Che Hung, Jau Shian Liang, Chih Hsun Lin, Zhong Kai Liu, Paul N. Luke, Daniel Perez-Becker, Ray Shine Run, Cornelia B. Wunderer, Andreas Zoglauer

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Abstract

The Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) is a balloon-borne telescope designed to study astrophysical sources of gammaray emission with high spectral resolution, moderate angular resolution, and novel sensitivity to gamma-ray polarization. The heart of NCT is a compact array of cross-strip germanium detectors allowing for wide-field imaging with excellent efficiency from 0.2-10 MeV. Before 2010, NCT had flown successfully on two conventional balloon flights in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The third flight was attempted in Spring 2010 from Alice Springs, Australia, but there was a launch accident that caused major payload damage and prohibited a balloon flight. The same system configuration enables us to extend our current results to wider phase space with pre-flight calibrations in 2010 campaign. Here we summarize the design, the performance of instrument, the pre-flight calibrations, and preliminary results we have obtained so far.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XII
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.860921
State	Published - 2010
Event	Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XII - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: 2 Aug 2010 → 4 Aug 2010

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	7805
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Conference	Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XII
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	2/08/10 → 4/08/10

Keywords

Compton imaging
Gamma-ray astronomy detectors
gamma-ray imaging
germanium radiation detectors

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Chiu, J. L., Bellm, E. C., Boggs, S. E., Chang, H. K., Chang, Y. H., Huang, M. A., Amman, M., Bandstra, M. S., Hung, W. C., Liang, J. S., Lin, C. H., Liu, Z. K., Luke, P. N., Perez-Becker, D., Run, R. S., Wunderer, C. B., & Zoglauer, A. (2010). Preliminary results from the Spring 2010 balloon campaign of the Nuclear Compton Telescope. In Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XII Article 780514 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7805). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.860921

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Preliminary results from the Spring 2010 balloon campaign of the Nuclear Compton Telescope. / Chiu, Jeng Lun; Bellm, Eric C.; Boggs, Steven E. et al.
Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XII. 2010. 780514 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7805).

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