Results of a study to build a gamma-ray telescope in an external tank

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Aug 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985icrc....3..363k&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center 19th Intern. Cosmic Ray Conf., Vol. 3 p 363-366 (SEE N85-34862 23-93)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

External Tanks, Gamma Ray Telescopes, Particle Telescopes, Space Shuttles, Angular Resolution, Gamma Ray Astronomy, Gamma Ray Observatory, Pair Production

Scientific paper

In response to the ever-present need for a very large gamma-ray detector for energies greater than 100 MeV, a concept to build a telescope of 250,000 sq cm sensitive area using a Space Shuttle External Tank (ET) is presented. In the Space Station era, for the first time, large detectors can be constructed on-orbit which would otherwise be limited in size by the launch vehicle. The ET will serve both as the spacecraft and the Cherenkov pressure vessel. The significant feature is that the sensitive area will be forty times that of the high energy detector on GRO and will be able to locate even the faintest sources from the GRO survey to a few arc minutes. The detection technique is based upon that originally proposed by Greisen.

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