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segmented detectors with add-back (see: clover (detector)). The voltage pulses produced for every gamma ray that interacts within the detector volume are...27 KB (3,330 words) - 22:53, 30 October 2024
telescopes in one spacecraft, covering X-rays and gamma rays, including various specialized sub-instruments and detectors. Following 14 years of effort, the...21 KB (2,049 words) - 21:14, 28 July 2024
gamma rays coming from space are absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere, so gamma-ray astronomy could not develop until it was possible to get detectors above...28 KB (3,296 words) - 06:41, 30 June 2024
Advanced GAmma Tracking Array, is a High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) semiconductor detector array for γ-ray spectroscopy that is based on the novel γ-ray tracking...10 KB (1,088 words) - 08:33, 16 August 2024- Semiconductor detectors find broad application for radiation protection, gamma and X-ray spectrometry, and as particle detectors. In semiconductor detectors, ionizing...16 KB (1,923 words) - 05:38, 15 September 2024
A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol γ ), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic...60 KB (7,399 words) - 22:06, 21 October 2024
In gamma-ray astronomy, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are immensely energetic explosions that have been observed in distant galaxies, being the brightest and...119 KB (12,984 words) - 18:50, 6 November 2024
galactic nuclei and other phenomena based on their X-ray and gamma-ray emissions. The Lobster-Eye X-ray Satellite was launched on 25 July 2020 by CNSA making...26 KB (3,140 words) - 18:38, 22 June 2024
Scintigraphy (redirect from Gamma scanning)are taken internally and the emitted gamma radiation is captured by gamma cameras, which are external detectors that form two-dimensional images in a...12 KB (1,239 words) - 16:07, 17 September 2024
X-ray detectors are devices used to measure the flux, spatial distribution, spectrum, and/or other properties of X-rays. Detectors can be divided into...24 KB (2,857 words) - 08:27, 24 August 2024
by this crystal. These thallium-activated sodium iodide detectors are widely used for gamma ray detection to this day. Robert Hofstadter coined the term...14 KB (1,163 words) - 04:50, 31 July 2024- The history of gamma-ray began with the serendipitous detection of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) on July 2, 1967, by the U.S. Vela satellites. After these satellites...30 KB (4,100 words) - 01:35, 24 September 2024
The study and analysis of gamma-ray spectra for scientific and technical use is called gamma spectroscopy, and gamma-ray spectrometers are the instruments...14 KB (1,756 words) - 15:55, 5 August 2024
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST, also FGRST), formerly called the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), is a space observatory being...56 KB (5,615 words) - 18:28, 21 September 2024
of cosmic rays, especially at lower energies, has been possible since the launch of the first satellites in the late 1950s. Particle detectors similar to...96 KB (10,552 words) - 14:25, 5 November 2024
AFP-675 (section Gamma Ray Advanced Detector)in gamma-ray detectors, the suitability of n-type, high-purity germanium gamma-ray detectors for space, the performance of an advanced gamma-ray spectrometer...7 KB (653 words) - 19:13, 25 March 2023- gamma-ray detectors use the Geiger-Mueller counter principle, but have been mostly replaced thallium-doped sodium-iodide (NaI) scintillation detector...7 KB (1,158 words) - 00:14, 27 December 2023
specialized applications, such as the manufacture of solar cells, X-rays and gamma-ray detectors. Its preparation is an entertaining and popular demonstration...22 KB (2,109 words) - 14:32, 21 July 2024- SGR 0526−66 (category Soft gamma repeaters)satellites equipped with gamma ray detectors. The association with N49 can only be indirect: it seems clear that soft gamma repeaters form in young stellar...6 KB (617 words) - 12:42, 14 May 2023
- 4He and high energy gamma rays, all in well known proportions. The fusion channel resulting in 4He and high energy gamma rays occurs approximately only
- ultraviolet, the infrared, and the X-ray regions. Ground-based radio observations, together with X-ray and gamma-ray detectors flown in satellites, have established
- original Vela satellites were equipped with six gamma-ray detectors, which looked for sudden bursts of gamma rays, possibly from nuclear weapon detonation.