Gamma-ray burst detection capabilities of comptel |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Neurosurgery, Spine Surgery and Peripheral Nerve Surgery, Medical University of Łódź, Poland;2. Chair of Neuropsychology and Psychotherapy, University of Warsaw, Poland;3. Chair of Psychiatry, Department of Affective and Psychotic Disorders, Medical University of Łódź, Poland |
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| Abstract: | The imaging gamma-ray telescope COMPTEL, capable of detecting gamma rays in the 1 to 30 MeV range, is one of four experiments onboard NASA's Gamma-Ray Observatory GRO. Besides its primary objectives COMPTEL will contribute to the understanding of cosmic gamma-ray bursts. Summarising, COMPTEL localises bursts (S (E > 1 MeV) ≥ 2.10−6 erg/cm2) within 1 sr FOV to better than 1° at medium gamma-ray energies, measures continuum energy spectra in the range 0.1 MeV to 20 MeV with fluence S ≥ 6.9 10−7 erg/cm2 (5σ, E≥100 keV), measures gamma-ray lines with detector resolution 9.6% (at 0.5 MeV) and 7.0% (at 1.5 MeV) and determines time histories of both gamma-ray line and continuum emission with t ≥ 0.1 sec resolution. |
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