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polarimeter concept based on GRIPS Albert Y Shih NASAGSFC on behalf of the GRIPS team Measurements and science objectives Angular resolution of 5 arcsec up to 22 MeV Spatial separation between ionassociated and electronassociated emission. 84 . Hiroshi Nagai. (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan). In collaboration with. Monica . Orienti. , Motoki Kino, Kenta Suzuki, Keiichi Asada, Akihiro . Doi. , Gabriele . Giovannini. , Marcello . Polarimeter. for Solar flares . (. GRIPS. ). Recently funded NASA LCAS balloon mission. 3D position-sensitive germanium spectrometer. High spectral resolution (~2 keV FWHM at 662 keV). Compton-scatter track reconstruction. Manel. Martinez. 4. 3. rd. . Winter Meeting. March 2015-Benasque. Outline. 1) Introduction. 2) Basics on VHE Gamma Astronomy physics. 3) VHE gamma observatories. 4) CTA. 5. ) Conclusions. 1) INTRODUCTION. Sergei Popov. (SAI MSU). Plan. General intro. Pulsar models. Population synthesis. Summary of discoveries. EGRET legacy. Just 6 pulsars:. Crab. Geminga. Vela. PSR B1055-52. PSR B1706-44 . PSR B1951+32 . Mysterious explosions in the Universe. Poonam Chandra. Royal Military College of Canada. Universe is 14 billion years old.. Our sun is 5 billion years.. Supernovae and Gamma ray bursts. Explosions lasting fraction of a second to few seconds.. Enzo . PARADISO. EDUSAFE Final Review. 20 June 2016. Overview. Gamma camera prototype recap. Panoramic gamma Imaging. Gamma sensor calibration. 3-D Gamma imaging. Overview - . 20 June . 2016 . – p. . 12/11/20. | . 1. Gamma-rays are ideal probes of a subset of the radioactive isotopes produced in astrophysical transients.. A number of new gamma-ray missions are being developed (ASCENT, COSI, LOX, AMEGO, …) that will improve sensitivities by over an order of magnitude, allowing us to probe more transients and a broader range of isotopes*.. Liz Hays . (. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). The Origin of Cosmic Rays. Credit S. . Swordy. Victor Hess and his . “Flight . Ops . Team”, . 1912. From protons. Pion decay. Accelerated protons (p) interact with matter. Shielding Materials Daniel R. McAlister , Ph.D. PG Research Foundation, Inc. 1955 University Lane Lisle, IL 60532, USA Revision 6 . 1 June 18 , 201 8 Introduction Attenuation or s hielding of gamma r Vikram . Dwarkadas. . (U Chicago). Matthieu. Renaud, . Alexandre. . Marcowith. . (LUPM, U Montpellier). Vincent . Tatischeff. . (. Univ. Paris-. Sud. ). August 11 2017. TevPA 2017 : VVD. 1. We acknowledge support from the FACCTS program at . Flashes. Gamma Ray . Astronomy. . Beginning. started . as a small budget research program in 1959. monitor. ing. compliance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty by the Soviet Union, and other nuclear-capable states. A novel gamma-ray detector configuration. Roi . Rahin*. Department of Physics, Technion. For . the. GALI collaboration. . *Ramon fellow by the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.. Background - Gamma ray bursts. T. elescope. Liz Hays. NASA GSFC. Lecture Plan. The Fermi Observatory. Science Motivation. Instruments. Detecting gamma rays with the Large . A. rea Telescope. Instrument Subsystems. Angular resolution. 1. W.Blotz. Motivation. Southern Wide field-of-view Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO). Planned to be built to monitor the Southern sky. Look for transient phenomena and extended sources. What should be the energy range of the observatory?.