Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006head....9.1907k&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #9, #19.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.394
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Development status of a new balloon-borne polarimeter, PoGOLite, will be presented. PoGOLite is designed to detect 10% polarization of a 100 mCrab source in one 6 hour balloon observation in the 25 keV - 100 keV energy range. Its design is based on the well-type phoswich counter technology. Polarization is measured by recording Compton scattering and photo-absorption in an array of 217 phoswich detector cells made of plastic and BGO scintillators, surrounded by active BGO shields. The design has been optimized through 4 rounds of tests at synchrotron beams and a proton beam, and flight model production has began: it can reduce the large background produced by cosmic-ray particles to about 10 mCrab level in most of its energy coverage. Potential systematic instrumental bias to the polarization measurement will be removed by rotating the polarimeter telescope around its axis. We plan to observe northern sky sources including the Crab pulsar/nebula, Cygnus X-1, and Hercules X-1 in the first flight scheduled in 2009. Our future plans include long duration balloon flights from Sweden to North America, and launching within a few weeks of gamma-ray flare detection from jet sources such as Mkn 501 by GLAST.
Bjornsson C.
Carlson Per
Craig Walter
Kamae Tuneyoshi
Kataoka Jun
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