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Bernard F. Phlips

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The MEGA Project for Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy

2006

The Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy (MEGA) telescope concept will soon be proposed as a MIDEX mission. This mission would enable a sensitive all-sky survey of the medium-energy gamma-ray sky (0.4–50 MeV) and bridge the huge sensitivity gap between the COMPTEL and OSSE experiments on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and the visionary Advanced Compton Telescope (ACT) mission. The scientific goals include compiling a much larger catalog of sources in this energy range, performing far deeper searches for supernovae, better measuring the galactic continuum and line emissions, and identifying the components of the cosmic diffuse gamma-ray emission. MEGA records and images gamma rays by complet…

PhysicsCOSMIC cancer databaseAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaCompton telescopemedia_common.quotation_subjectAstrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for AstrophysicsGamma rayAstronomyAstronomy and AstrophysicsAstrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic AstrophysicsGamma-ray astronomyAstrophysicslaw.inventionTelescopeSupernovaSpace and Planetary ScienceObservatorySkylawAstrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysicsmedia_commonChinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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MEGA: a medium-energy gamma-ray astronomy mission concept

2005

The Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy (MEGA) telescope concept will soon be proposed as a MIDEX mission. This mission would enable a sensitive all-sky survey of the medium-energy gamma-ray sky (0.4 - 50 MeV) and bridge the huge sensitivity gap between the COMPTEL and OSSE experiments on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the SPI and IBIS instruments on INTEGRAL, and the visionary Advanced Compton Telescope (ACT) mission. The scientific goals include, among other things, compiling a much larger catalog of sources in this energy range, performing far deeper searches for supernovae, better measuring the galactic continuum and line emissions, and identifying the components of the cosmic diffuse…

PhysicsPhotonAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaCompton telescopeAstrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for AstrophysicsGamma rayAstronomyAstrophysicsGamma-ray astronomyScintillatorlaw.inventionTelescopePair productionlawObservatorySPIE Proceedings
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