Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Jan 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986aiaa.meetw....m&link_type=abstract
AIAA, Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 24th, Reno, NV, Jan. 6-9, 1986. 8 p.
Mathematics
Logic
Gamma Ray Observatory, Instrument Packages, Spaceborne Telescopes, Galactic Radiation, Gamma Ray Telescopes, Mission Planning, Satellite Configurations, Scintillation Counters, Spectrometers
Scientific paper
The Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) is to be launched in 1988 by the STS. The GRO will feature four very large instruments: the Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE), the Imaging Compton Telescope (COMPTEL), the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) and the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE). The instruments weigh from 900-1200 kg each, and required the development of specialized lifting and dolly devices to permit their assembly, manipulation and testing. The GRO is intended as a tool for studying discrete celestial objects such as black holes, neutron stars and other gamma-ray emitting objects, scanning for nucleosynthesis processes, mapping the Galaxy and other, high energy galaxies in terms of gamma rays, searching for cosmological effects and observing gamma ray bursts. The instruments will be sensitive from the upper end mof X-rya wavelengths to the highest energies possible. Details of the hardware and performance specifications of each of the instruments are discussed.
Kniffen Donald A.
Madden James
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