A GAMMA RAY TELESCOPE UTILIZING LARGE AREA WIRE SPARK CHAMBERS

被引:2
作者
ROSS, RW
EHRMANN, CH
FICHTEL, CE
KNIFFEN, DA
OGELMAN, HB
机构
[1] NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
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D O I
10.1109/TNS.1969.4325122
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A second generation gamma-ray telescope has been developed for further experiments in balloon-borne astronomy. This instrument is composed of 32 wire-grid spark chamber modules, each 50 x 50 cm2, utilizing two-coordinate ferrite core readout. The detector is flown on a 27 million cubic foot research balloon in a search for discrete gamma-ray sources and supernovae explosions. Copyright © 1968 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
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