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Compton Telescopes

Compton Telescopes is a class of space-based gamma-ray detection instruments that operate on the principle of measuring successive interactions of incident photons within the detector volume to determine their energy and direction via Compton scattering kinematics.

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Publications

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Instrument description and performance of the Imaging Gamma-Ray Telescope COMPTEL aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory

V. Schöenfelder, H. Aarts, K. Bennett et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 1993 · 512 citations

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Calibration of the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) for the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory

D. J. Thompson, D. L. Bertsch, C. E. Fichtel et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 1993 · 366 citations · Full text

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The Crab pulsar in the 0.75-30 MeV range as seen by CGRO COMPTEL

L. Kuiper, W. Hermsen, G. Cusumano et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2001 · 229 citations · Full text

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The first COMPTEL source catalogue

V. Schönfelder, K. Bennett, J. J. Blom et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series · 2000 · 165 citations · Full text

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The Crab Nebula as a standard candle in very high-energy astrophysics

Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2010 · 160 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. AZ
    Andreas Zoglauer

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    20 publications · 551 citations

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  2. SE
    Steven E. Boggs

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    20 publications · 412 citations

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  3. PV
    P. von Ballmoos

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    15 publications · 430 citations

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  4. HT
    H. Tajima

    Hiroshima University, Japan

    12 publications · 557 citations

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  5. PJ
    P. Jean

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    14 publications · 459 citations

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Institutions

342

  1. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

    Garching bei München, Germany

    21 h-index

    95 publications

    6.7K citations

  2. Goddard Space Flight Center

    Greenbelt, United States

    17 h-index

    117 publications

    6.5K citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    16 h-index

    127 publications

    3.5K citations

  4. United States Naval Research Laboratory

    Washington, United States

    13 h-index

    61 publications

    1.6K citations

  5. University of New Hampshire

    Durham, United States

    13 h-index

    52 publications

    2.8K citations

  6. Hiroshima University

    Hiroshima, Japan

    13 h-index

    43 publications

    1.8K citations

  7. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    12 h-index

    67 publications

    1.7K citations

  8. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    Berkeley, United States

    12 h-index

    29 publications

    526 citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 23 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

    20 publications · 626 citations

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  4. 13

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  5. New Astronomy Reviews

    9 publications · 360 citations

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