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The goal of the Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy (MEGA) telescope is to improve sensitivity at medium gamma-ray energies (0.4-50 MeV) by at least an order of magnitude over that of COMPTEL. This will be achieved with a new compact design…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 P. F. Bloser , R. Andritschke , G. Kanbach , V. Schoenfelder , F. Schopper , A. Zoglauer

Study of high energy cosmic events in the MeV range requires detector with high efficiency and energy resolution to be constructed. The present setup consisting of scintillator crystals CeBr3 with different thickness, each coupled with 12 x…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-10 Veronika Asova , Galin Bistrev , Simeon Ivanov

The soft MeV gamma-ray sky, from a few hundred keV up to several MeV, is one of the least explored regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The most promising technology to access this energy range is a telescope that uses Compton…

There is a growing interest in the science uniquely enabled by observations in the MeV range, particularly in light of multi-messenger astrophysics. The Compton Pair (ComPair) telescope, a prototype of the AMEGO Probe-class concept,…

The last measurement of the diffuse emission spectrum of the Milky Way in the megaelectronvolt (MeV) photon energy range was performed by CGRO/COMPTEL more than 20 years ago. We report a new analysis with the spectrometer SPI aboard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-10 Thomas Siegert , Joanna Berteaud , Francesca Calore , Pasquale D. Serpico , Christoph Weinberger

For MeV gamma-ray astronomy, we have developed an electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC) as a MeV gamma-ray telescope capable of rejecting the radiation background and attaining the high sensitivity of near 1 mCrab in space. Our ETCC…

A future mission in medium-energy gamma-ray astrophysics would allow for many scientific advancements, e.g. a possible explanation for the excess positron emission from the Galactic Center, a better understanding of nucleosynthesis and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 Michelle Galloway , Andreas Zoglauer , Steven E. Boggs , Mark Amman

Although the MeV gamma-ray band is a promising energy-band window in astrophysics, the current situation of MeV gamma-ray astronomy significantly lags behind those of the other energy bands in angular resolution and sensitivity. An…

The Near Ultraviolet Transient Explorer (NUTEx) is a CubeSat-based near-ultraviolet (NUV) imaging payload designed for transient sky surveys and is currently under development. CubeSats are compact and cost-effective satellite platforms…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Shubham Ghatul , Rekhesh Mohan , Jayant Murthy , Margarita Safonova , Praveen Kumar , Maheswar Gopinathan , Shubhangi Jain , Mahesh Babu S

LXeGRIT - Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope - is the first prototype of a Compton telescope for \MeV \g-ray astrophysics based on a LXe time projection chamber. One of the most relevant figures of merit for a Compton telescope is the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Curioni , E. Aprile , T. Doke , K. L. Giboni , M. Kobayashi , U. G. Oberlack

A Compton camera is the most promising approach for gamma-ray detection in the energy region from several hundred keV to MeV, especially for application in high energy astrophysics. In order to obtain good angular resolution, semiconductor…

COCOA (COmpact COmpton cAmera) is a next-generation gamma-ray telescope designed for astrophysical observations in the MeV energy range. The detector comprises a scatterer volume employing the LiquidO detection technology and an array of…

The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) is a Probe-class mission concept that will provide essential contributions to multimessenger astrophysics in the next decade. AMEGO operates both as a Compton and pair telescope to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 Carolyn A. Kierans , the AMEGO Team

CUBES is a X-ray detector payload which will be installed on the KTH 3U CubeSat mission, MIST. The detector comprises cerium-doped Gd3Al2Ga3O12 (GAGG) scintillators read out with silicon photomultipliers through a Citiroc…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-01 Rakhee Kushwah , Theodor A. Stana , Mark Pearce

Current generation neutrino telescopes cover an energy range from about 10 GeV to beyond $10^9$ GeV. IceCube sets the scale for future experiments to make improvements. Strategies for future upgrades will be discussed in three energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Albrecht Karle

Compton telescopes provide a good sensitivity over a wide field of view in the difficult energy range running from a few hundred keV to several MeV. Their angular resolution is, however, poor and strongly energy dependent. We present a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-29 M. Forot , P. Laurent , F. Lebrun , O. Limousin

The Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT) is the first realization of a liquid xenon time projection chamber for Compton imaging of MeV gamma-ray sources in astrophysics. By measuring the energy deposit and the three spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Aprile , A. Curioni , K. L. Giboni , M. Kobayashi , U. G. Oberlack , S. Zhang

High energy gamma-ray astronomy has been established during the last decade through the launch of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) and the success of its ground-based counterpart, the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique. In the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frank Krennrich

The gamma-ray sky from several hundred keV to $\sim$ a hundred MeV has remained largely unexplored due to the challenging nature of detecting gamma rays in this regime. At lower energies, Compton scattering is the dominant interaction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-26 Sean Griffin , the AMEGO Team

The gamma-ray sky from several hundred keV to $\sim$ a hundred MeV has remained largely unexplored due to the challenging nature of detecting gamma rays in this regime. At lower energies, Compton scattering is the dominant interaction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Sean Griffin , the AMEGO Team