A long duration balloon-borne telescope for solar gamma-ray astronomy

✍ Scribed by Alan Owens; Edward L. Chupp; Philip P. Dunphy

• Book ID: 104764917
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1000 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0922-6435
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00414792

✦ Synopsis

A new solar y-ray telescope is described which is intended to take advantage of current long-duration balloon facilities such as the RACOON system. The primary scientific objective is to detect and measure y-ray lines from solar flares along with the associated low-energy continuum.

The proposed instrument is centered on a multi-headed germanium system and is designed to operate over the energy range 50 keV to 200 MeV. In the nuclear transition energy region, the average energy resolution of the primary detectors is over 20 times better than that achieved with the y-ray spectrometer onboard the Solar Maximum Mission satellite.

A detailed description of the instrument and its expected performance will be given.