Axel: A Balloon-borne X-ray Astronomy Experiment

Sood, R. K.; Panettieri, J.; Grey, D.; Woods, G.S.; Hoffmann, Jordan; Manchanda, R. K.; Staubert, R.; Kendziorra, E.; Rochester, G. K.

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“…The RMC was first proposed for X-ray astronomy by Schnopper et al (1968). The RMC technique was successfully used in a number of rocket flights (Schnopper et al 1970;Cruise & Willmore 1975) and balloon-borne experiments (Staubert et al 1983;Ubertini et al 1985;Sood et al 1996) for hard X-ray imaging. Nishimura et al (1978) used a balloon-borne wide-field RMC instrument to localise gamma-ray bursts.…”

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Direct demodulation technique for rotating modulation collimator imaging

Chen

1998

Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.

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Abstract. Rotating modulation collimator (RMC) is an important imaging technique in hard X-ray astronomy. With traditional inversion techniques, the sensitivity, angular resolution and ability of simultaneous imaging of point sources and extended emission are not good enough in many practical cases. In this work, a new inversion technique, the direct demodulation method, is applied to analyse simulated data of an RMC telescope. The results show that the image quality from direct demodulation are improved significantly in comparison with that from traditional inversion techniques, such as the cross-correlation method and the CLEAN cross-correlation method. From an RMC telescope with a simple bi-grid collimator and the direct demodulation technique, we can do imaging for both discrete and extended sources.

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Direct demodulation technique for rotating modulation collimator imaging

Chen

1998

Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.

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“…Most of the efforts of the leading groups were devoted to the design of new imaging experiments, especially for long duration balloon flights, e.g. EXITE2 (Grindlay 1998), ALISE , AXEL (Sood et al 1996), MARGIE (Cherry et al 1995), LASE (D 'Silva et al 1998). An interesting review on the significant scientific results obtained with balloon experiments was reported by Teegarden (1994).…”

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Hard X-ray/Soft gamma-ray experiments and missions: overview and prospects

Cavallari,

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2017

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Starting from 1960s, a great number of missions and experiments have been performed for the study of the high-energy sky. This review gives a wide vision of the most important space missions and balloon experiments that have operated in the 10-600 keV band, a crucial window for the study of the most energetic and violent phenomena in the Universe. Thus it is important to take the stock of the achievements to better establish what we have still to do with future missions in order to progress in this field, to establish which are the technologies required to solve the still open issues and to extend our knowledge of the Universe.

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Hard X-Ray/Soft Gamma-Ray Experiments and Missions: Overview and Prospects

Cavallari

Frontera

2017

Space Sci Rev

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Axel: A Balloon-borne X-ray Astronomy Experiment

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Direct demodulation technique for rotating modulation collimator imaging

Direct demodulation technique for rotating modulation collimator imaging

Hard X-ray/Soft gamma-ray experiments and missions: overview and prospects

Hard X-Ray/Soft Gamma-Ray Experiments and Missions: Overview and Prospects

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