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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    Title :

    Gamma-ray burst detection capabilities of comptel


    Contributors:
    Winkler, C. (author) / Schönfelder, V. (author) / Diehl, R. (author) / Lichti, G. (author) / Steinle, H. (author) / Swanenburg, B.N. (author) / Aarts, A. (author) / Deerenberg, A. (author) / Hermsen, W. (author) / Lockwood, J. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1986-01-01


    Size :

    5 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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