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Title: | How to Detect X-Rays and Gamma-Rays from Space: Optics and Detectors | Authors: | FIORETTI, VALENTINA BULGARELLI, ANDREA |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Volume: | Tutorial Guide to X-ray and Gamma-ray Astronomy | First Page: | 55 | Abstract: | The measurable quantities of the sky’s light, for any wavelength, are energy, position, arrival time, and polarization. Each of them reveal different information about the science target (e.g. gas dynamics, state and distribution of the matter, temperature, luminosity) and require specific detecting solutions. In the study of X-rays and gamma-rays up to the TeV regime, their absorption by the atmosphere (by 50% at 30 km altitude for 1 MeV photon) requires the development of space applications. The science goals of the mission define which technological benchmark should be maximised (e.g. energy or spatial resolution), but the final design of high energy instruments is the result of a trade-off analysis among the detection specifications, the need for space-borne electronic systems and materials, and the limited resources in mass budget, electrical power, and telemetry rates. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/31397 | URL: | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-6337-9_3 | ISBN: | 978-981-15-6336-2 978-981-15-6337-9 |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-15-6337-9_3 | Bibcode ADS: | 2020tgxg.book...55F | Fulltext: | open |
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