The 2010 balloon campaign of the Nuclear Compton Telescope

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

doi:10.1117/12.857526

The 2010 balloon campaign of the Nuclear Compton Telescope

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

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Abstract

The Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) is a balloon-borne soft gamma-ray telescope. Its compact design uses cross-strip germanium detectors, allowing for wide-field imaging with excellent efficiency from 0.2-10 MeV. Additionally,the Compton imaging principle employed by NCT provides polarimetric sensitivity to several MeV. NCT is optimized for the study of astrophysical sources of nuclear line emission. A ten-detector instrument participated in the 2010 balloon campaign in Alice Springs, Australia, in order to conduct observations of the Galactic Center Region. Unfortunately, a launch accident caused major damage to the payload, and no flight was possible. We discuss the design, calibration, and performance of the instrument as well as prospects for its future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010
Subtitle of host publication	Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857526
State	Published - 2010
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: 28 Jun 2010 → 2 Jul 2010

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	7732
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

Conference

Conference	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	28/06/10 → 2/07/10

Keywords

Compton imaging
Gamma-ray astronomy
Germanium radiation detectors

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Bellm, E. C., Chiu, J. L., Boggs, S. E., Chang, H. K., Chang, Y. H., Huang, M. A., Amman, M., Bandstra, M. S., Hung, W. C., Jean, P., Liang, J. S., Lin, C. H., Liu, Z. K., Luke, P. N., Perez-Becker, D., Run, R. S., & Zoglauer, A. (2010). The 2010 balloon campaign of the Nuclear Compton Telescope. In Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray Article 773224 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7732). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857526

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The 2010 balloon campaign of the Nuclear Compton Telescope. / Bellm, Eric C.; Chiu, Jeng Lun; Boggs, Steven E. et al.
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. 2010. 773224 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7732).

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