Data analysis of the COMPTEL instrument on the NASA gamma ray observatory

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Feb 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992nascp3137...95d&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center, The Compton Observatory Science Workshop p 95-101 (SEE N92-21874 12-90)

Computer Science

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Computer Programs, Data Base Management Systems, Data Processing, Gamma Ray Observatory, Imaging Techniques, Scintillation Counters, Signatures, Spaceborne Telescopes, Correlation, Field Of View, Gamma Rays, Hypotheses

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The Compton imaging telescope (COMPTEL) on the Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) is a wide field of view instrument. The coincidence measurement technique in two scintillation detector layers requires specific analysis methods. Straightforward event projection into the sky is impossible. Therefore, detector events are analyzed in a multi-dimensional data-space using a gamma ray sky hypothesis convolved with the point spread function of the instrument in this data-space. Background suppression and analysis techniques have important implications on the gamma ray source results for this background limited telescope. The COMPTEL collaboration applies a software system of analysis utilities, organized around a database management system. The use of this system for the assistance of guest investigators at the various collaboration sites and external sites is foreseen and allows different detail levels of cooperation with the COMPTEL institutes, dependent on the type of data to be studied.

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