Development of a hard X-ray polarimeter for solar flares and gamma-ray bursts.

Details Development of a hard X-ray polarimeter for solar flares and gamma-ray bursts. Development of a hard X-ray polarimeter for solar flares and gamma-ray bursts.

Jun 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998itns...45..910m&link_type=abstract

IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 45, No. 3, p. 910 - 914

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Polarimeters: X Rays, Polarimeters: Solar Flares, Polarimeters: Gamma-Ray Bursts

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The authors describe recent work on the development of a Compton scatter polarimeter for measuring the polarization of hard X-rays (100 - 300 keV) from astrophysical sources. Results from measurements with a laboratory prototype are summarized, along with comparisons to Monte Carlo simulations. They also present their latest design concept, which envisions a complete polarimeter module on the front end of a 5-inch position-sensitive PMT. Although the emphasis of their development effort is towards measuring hard X-rays from solar flares, the latest design has the advantage that it is sensitive over a rather large field-of-view (>1 steradian), a feature that makes the design especially attractive for γ-ray burst studies.

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