On the Angular Resolution of Pair-Conversion $\gamma$-Ray Telescopes
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2023-06-01 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
I present a study of the several contributions to the single-photon angular resolution of pair telescopes in the MeV energy range. I examine some test cases, the presently active {\sl Fermi} LAT, the ``pure-silicon'' projects ASTROGAM and AMEGO-X, and the emulsion-based project GRAINE.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2305.19690,
title = {On the Angular Resolution of Pair-Conversion $\gamma$-Ray Telescopes},
author = {Denis Bernard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.19690},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
Presented to Session 14 "Future spaceborne MeV detectors and related astrophysics'' of the 2023 International Conference of Deep Space Sciences, April 2023, Hefei, China