@inproceedings{14386cc968d148fb91ab6014cf7f8c30,
title = "The 2010 balloon campaign of the Nuclear Compton Telescope",
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.",
keywords = "Compton imaging, Gamma-ray astronomy, Germanium radiation detectors",
author = "Bellm, {Eric C.} and Chiu, {Jeng Lun} and Boggs, {Steven E.} and Chang, {Hsiang Kuang} and Chang, {Yuan Hann} and Huang, {Minghuey A.} and Mark Amman and Bandstra, {Mark S.} and Hung, {Wei Che} and Pierre Jean and Liang, {Jau Shian} and Lin, {Chih Hsun} and Liu, {Zhong Kai} and Luke, {Paul N.} and Daniel Perez-Becker and Run, {Ray Shine} and Andreas Zoglauer",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1117/12.857526",
language = "???core.languages.en_GB???",
isbn = "9780819482228",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010",
note = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray ; Conference date: 28-06-2010 Through 02-07-2010",
}