Polarization Measurements with an Imaging Gamma-Ray Telescope

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Sep 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995exa.....6..275a&link_type=abstract

Experimental Astronomy, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp.275-284

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Instrumentation, Gamma Ray, Polarization

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The proposed Tracking and Imaging Gamma-Ray Experiment (TIGRE), operating in the 0.3 100 MeV energy interval, will be an efficient polarimeter with a modulation factor of ˜50% at 0.5 MeV. The polarization detection parameters of TIGRE were estimated using a Monte Carlo simulation modified to include the polarization dependence of the Klein-Nishina formula. Using Compton scattering of low energy photons and approximately 3π acceptance angle after scattering, TIGRE will be able to measure strong sources with 20% fractional polarization at 3 σ significance in a typical balloon-borne exposure and ≤5% during a 4-week satellite observation.

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