A high resolution gamma-ray and hard x-ray spectrometer (HIREGS) for long duration balloon flights

被引:5
作者
Boggs, SE [1 ]
Lin, RP
Feffer, PT
Slassi-Sennou, S
McBride, S
Primbsch, JH
Youssefi, K
Zimmer, G
Cork, C
Luke, P
Madden, N
Malone, D
Pehl, R
Pelling, M
Cotin, F
Vedrenne, G
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Space Sci Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] Univ Calif San Diego, Ctr Astrophys & Space Sci, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[4] Ctr Etud Spatiale Rayonnements, F-31029 Toulouse, France
[5] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
来源
ACTIVE EXPERIMENTS IN SPACE PLASMAS | 1998年 / 21卷 / 07期
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10.1016/S0273-1177(97)01090-9
中图分类号
V [航空、航天];
学科分类号
08 ; 0825 ;
摘要
The HIREGS gamma-ray spectrometer made a 23-day Long Duration Balloon Flight (LDBF) from Antarctica in January 1995 to observe Galactic sources of gamma-ray and hard X-ray line and continuum emission, The scientific instrument itself is discussed, followed by a more extensive discussion of the characteristics of the instrument unique to LDBFs. The flight performance and preliminary results are briefly summarized. (C) 1998 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
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页码:1015 / 1018
页数:4
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