Preliminary laboratory performance of the NCT prototype flight electronics

Wayne Coburn; Steven E. Boggs; Julia M. Kregenow; Jason D. Bowen; Mark S. Amman; Morgan T. Burkes; William W. Craig; Pierre Jean; Robert P. Lin; Paul N. Luke; Norman W. Madden; David M. Smith; Peter von Ballmoos; Klaus Ziock

doi:10.1117/12.506037

3 February 2004 Preliminary laboratory performance of the NCT prototype flight electronics

Wayne Coburn, Steven E. Boggs, Julia M. Kregenow, Jason D. Bowen, Mark S. Amman, Morgan T. Burkes, William W. Craig, Pierre Jean, Robert P. Lin, Paul N. Luke, Norman W. Madden, David M. Smith, Peter von Ballmoos, Klaus Ziock

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Proceedings Volume 5165, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XIII; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.506037
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We are developing a 2-detector high resolution Compton telescope utilizing 3D imaging germanium detectors (GeDs) to be flown as a balloon payload in Spring 2004. This instrument is a prototype for the larger Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT), which utilizes 12-GeDs. NCT is a balloon-borne soft γ-ray (0.2-15 MeV) telescope designed to study, through spectroscopy, imaging, and timing, astrophysical sources of nuclear line emission and γ-ray polarization. The NCT program is designed to develop and test the technologies and analysis techniques crucial for the Advanced Compton Telescope, while studying γ-ray radiation with very high spectral resolution, moderate angular resolution, and high sensitivity. NCT has a novel, ultra-compact design optimized for studying nuclear line emission in the critical 0.5-2 MeV range, and polarization in the 0.2-0.5 MeV range. The prototype flight will critically test the novel instrument technologies, analysis techniques, and background rejection procedures we have developed for high resolution Compton telescopes. In this paper we present the design and preliminary results of laboratory performance tests of the NCT flight electronics.

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Wayne Coburn, Steven E. Boggs, Julia M. Kregenow, Jason D. Bowen, Mark S. Amman, Morgan T. Burkes, William W. Craig, Pierre Jean, Robert P. Lin, Paul N. Luke, Norman W. Madden, David M. Smith, Peter von Ballmoos, and Klaus Ziock "Preliminary laboratory performance of the NCT prototype flight electronics", Proc. SPIE 5165, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XIII, (3 February 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.506037

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