Pre-flight calibration of the prototype Nuclear Compton Telescope

Details Pre-flight calibration of the prototype Nuclear Compton Telescope Pre-flight calibration of the prototype Nuclear Compton Telescope

Jul 2006

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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation II: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Edited by Turner, Martin J. L.; Hasinger, Günther. Proceedi

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) is a balloon-borne soft gamma-ray (0.2MeV-10MeV) telescope designed to study astrophysical sources of nuclear line emission and polarization. A prototype instrument was successfully launched from Ft. Sumner, NM on June 1, 2005. The NCT prototype consists of two 3D position sensitive High-Purity-Germanium (HPGe) strip detectors fabricated with amorphous Ge contacts. The novel ultra-compact design and new technologies allow NCT to achieve high efficiencies with excellent spectral resolution and background reduction. Energy and positioning calibration data was acquired pre-flight in Fort Sumner, NM after the full instrument integration. Here we discuss our calibration techniques and results, and detector efficiencies. Comparisons with simulations are presented as well.

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