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20192025
most citedGlowbug, a Low-Cost, High-Sensitivity Gamma-Ray Burst Telescope

9 citations · 23 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph.IM2025

Calibration of the ComPair Balloon Instrument

Nicholas Kirschner, Zachary Metzler, Lucas D. Smith +25

ComPair, the prototype of the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) mission concept, is a combined Compton imager and pair production telescope. It consists of four s…

astro-ph.IM2025

Background Measurements and Simulations of the ComPair Balloon Flight

Zachary Metzler, Nicholas Kirschner, Lucas Smith +31

ComPair, a prototype of the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO), completed a short-duration high-altitude balloon campaign on August 27, 2023 from Fort Sumner, New…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

ComPair-2: A Next Generation Medium Energy Gamma-ray Telescope Prototype

Regina Caputo, Carolyn Kierans, Nicholas Cannady +30

Many questions posed in the Astro2020 Decadal survey in both the New Messengers and New Physics and the Cosmic Ecosystems science themes require a gamma-ray mission with capabiliti…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

The 2023 Balloon Flight of the ComPair Instrument

Lucas D. Smith, Nicholas Cannady, Regina Caputo +29

The ComPair balloon instrument is a prototype gamma-ray telescope that aims to further develop technology for observing the gamma-ray sky in the MeV regime. ComPair combines four d…

astro-ph.IM2024

The Anti-Coincidence Detector Subsystem for ComPair

Zachary Metzler, Nicholas Cannady, Daniel Shy +3

ComPair is a prototype gamma-ray telescope for the development of key technologies for next-generation gamma-ray detectors consisting of four subsystems: a 10-layer double-sided si…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 6 cited

The Compton-Pair telescope: A prototype for a next-generation MeV -ray observatory

Janeth Valverde, Nicholas Kirschner, Zachary Metzler +31

The Compton Pair (ComPair) telescope is a prototype that aims to develop the necessary technologies for future medium energy gamma-ray missions and to design, build, and test the p…