Abstract The launch in December 1989, of SIGMA, one of the main devices aboard the GRANAT spacecraft, has provided high-energy astronomers for the first time with a telescope whose imaging properties in the soft γ-ray regime match those of instruments operating in the hard X-ray band. Having examined ∼ 300 celestial fields during more than two years of successful in-orbit operations, this coded-aperture telescope, sensitive to radiation in the energy range 35 keV to 1.3 MeV, has succeeded both in disentangling severe source confusion problems and in providing firm identifications and reliable spectra of sources at soft γ-ray wavelengths. A selection of the salient scientific results obtained so far is presented, with intent to emphasize the unique contribution of a coded-mask telescope able to perform accurate images of the sky in the soft γ-ray domain.


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    Titel :

    High angular resolution observations in the soft gamma-ray band with sigma


    Beteiligte:
    Paul, J. (Autor:in) / Ballet, J. (Autor:in) / Lebrun, F. (Autor:in) / Leray, J.P. (Autor:in) / Mandrou, P. (Autor:in) / Roques, J.P. (Autor:in) / Vedrenne, G. (Autor:in) / Niel, M. (Autor:in) / Sunyaev, R. (Autor:in) / Churazov, E. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 13 , 12 ; 665-678


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1993-01-01


    Format / Umfang :

    14 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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