Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985nimpa.238..533c&link_type=abstract
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 238, Issue 2-3, p. 533-541.
Physics
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Scientific paper
A good understanding of the background noise levels in γ-ray astronomical telescopes is a necessary preliminary to the methods of suppression of these unwanted events and hence to the design of a sensitive instrument. A generalised configuration of a γ-ray telescope, mounted on an appropriate space platform, has been modelled by Monte Carlo methods with the aim of calculating the energy loss distribution of the background noise counts. These events are induced in the principal γ-ray detection element, both directly and indirectly, by the cosmic ray, neutron, and γ-ray fluxes which exist in the space environment. Each source mechanism has been studied individually and a composite energy loss spectrum of the total background noise has been compiled for both satellite and stratospheric balloon configurations. The results of the assessment have led to the rationalization of the basic design concept of such a telescope and enabled the sensitivity to cosmic γ-ray sources of this class of instrument to be readily evaluated.
Charalambous P. M.
Dean Anthony J.
Dipper Nigel A.
Lewis Raymond A.
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