TY - GEN
T1 - SMILE-II
T2 - 20th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research
AU - Takada, A.
AU - Tanimori, T.
AU - Kubo, H.
AU - Miuchi, K.
AU - Kabuki, S.
AU - Parker, J. D.
AU - Kishimoto, Y.
AU - Mizumoto, T.
AU - Ueno, K.
AU - Kurosawa, S.
AU - Iwaki, S.
AU - Sawano, T.
AU - Taniue, K.
AU - Nakamura, K.
AU - Higashi, N.
AU - Matsuoka, Y.
AU - Komura, S.
AU - Sato, Y.
AU - Arvelius, S.
AU - Turunen, E.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84859894333
SN - 9789290922643
T3 - European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
SP - 567
EP - 571
BT - Proceedings of the 20th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research
Y2 - 22 May 2011 through 26 May 2011
ER -