Preliminary results from the 1999 balloon flight of the Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT)

Elena Aprile; Uwe G. Oberlack; Alessandro Curioni; Valeri Egorov; Karl-Ludwig Giboni; Sandro Ventura; Tadayoshi Doke; Jun Kikuchi; Kyoko Takizawa; Edward L. Chupp; Philip P. Dunphy

doi:10.1117/12.409128

13 December 2000 Preliminary results from the 1999 balloon flight of the Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT)

Elena Aprile, Uwe G. Oberlack, Alessandro Curioni, Valeri Egorov, Karl-Ludwig Giboni, Sandro Ventura, Tadayoshi Doke, Jun Kikuchi, Kyoko Takizawa, Edward L. Chupp, Philip P. Dunphy

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Proceedings Volume 4140, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XI; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.409128
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2000, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

LXeGRIT is a balloon-borne Compton telescope employing a large volume liquid xenon time projection chamber (LXe-TPC) as the central (gamma) -ray detector. It is designed to image (gamma) - rays in the energy range of approximately 200 keV to 20 MeV, with an angular resolution of about 3 degrees (1 sigma) at 2 MeV, within a field-of-view (FOV) of about 1 sr. The detector's energy and three-dimensional spatial resolution as measured during pre-flight calibration experiments, are (Delta) E_1xe/E equals 8.8% (root)1MeV/E and < 1 mm RMS, respectively. The detection efficiency for Compton events varies between 1.5% and 4% depending on energy and event selection. We describe the instrument as flown on May 7, 1999 and review its overall performance at balloon altitude. The launch occurred at 13:26:54 UT from Ft. Sumner, New Mexico and the flight was terminated about 9 hours later. The Crab was in the instrument FOV for a few hours. Analysis of these data is in progress.

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Elena Aprile, Uwe G. Oberlack, Alessandro Curioni, Valeri Egorov, Karl-Ludwig Giboni, Sandro Ventura, Tadayoshi Doke, Jun Kikuchi, Kyoko Takizawa, Edward L. Chupp, and Philip P. Dunphy "Preliminary results from the 1999 balloon flight of the Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT)", Proc. SPIE 4140, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, (13 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.409128

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