SMILE-II: Observation of celestial and atmosphereic MeV gamma rays using a balloon-borne wide fields of view Electron-Tracking Compton CameraShow others and affiliations
2011 (English)In: Proceedings of the 20th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research: 22-26 May 2011, Hyère, France, Noordwijk: European Space Agency, ESA , 2011, p. 567-571Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
We have developed an Electron Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) as an MeV gamma-ray telescope in the next generation. The ETCC consists of a gaseous time projection chamber and a position sensitive scintillation camera. We had launched a small size ETCC loaded on a balloon in 2006, and it was successful to obtain the fluxes of diffuse cosmic and atmospheric gamma rays in the energy range between 125 keV and 1.25 MeV. As the next flight (SMILE-II), we planned a long duration flight using a circumpolar balloon launched from Kiruna, and it will observe the celestial bright sources and the atmospheric gamma-ray burst due to the relativistic electron from the radiation belt. In this paper, we report the concepts of our detector and the performance of the SMILE-Il prototype.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Noordwijk: European Space Agency, ESA , 2011. p. 567-571
Series
ESA SP, ISSN 0379-6566 ; 700 SP
National Category
Vehicle and Aerospace Engineering
Research subject
Space Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-31363Local ID: 585c5d2a-eb75-4ac0-aa1c-2024da189299OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-31363DiVA, id: diva2:1004597
Conference
ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research : 22/05/2011 - 26/05/2011
Note
Godkänd; 2012; 20120430 (andbra)
2016-09-302016-09-302026-03-12Bibliographically approved