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most citedThe Compton Spectrometer and Imager

41 citations · 267 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Predictions for Short Gamma-Ray Burst Detections by COSI

Eliza Neights, Eric Burns, Nicolò Parmiggiani +21

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a soft gamma-ray telescope scheduled to launch in 2027. COSI will trigger onboard the spacecraft in response to short-duration transie…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Imaging and Spectral Fitting of Bright Gamma-ray Sources with the COSI Balloon Payload

Jarred M. Roberts, Steven Boggs, Thomas Siegert +17

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager balloon payload (COSI-Balloon) is a wide-field-of-view Compton -ray telescope that operates in the 0.2 - 5 MeV bandpass. COSI-Balloon had a s…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 19 cited

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager

John A. Tomsick, Steven E. Boggs, Andreas Zoglauer +72

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) satellite mission in development with a planned launch in 2027. COSI is a wide-field gamma-ray telescope…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 7 cited

The cosipy library: COSI's high-level analysis software

Israel Martinez-Castellanos, Savitri Gallego, Chien-You Huang +72

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a selected Small Explorer (SMEX) mission launching in 2027. It consists of a large field-of-view Compton telescope that will probe wit…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 10 cited

The long-stable hard state of XTE J1752-223 and the disk truncation dilemma

Riley M. T. Connors, Javier A. Garcia, John Tomsick +10

The degree to which the thin accretion disks of black hole X-ray binaries are truncated during hard spectral states remains a contentious open question in black hole astrophysics.…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 7 cited

Soft gamma-ray polarimetry with COSI using maximum likelihood analysis

John A. Tomsick, Alexander Lowell, Hadar Lazar +2

Measurements of the linear polarization of high-energy emission from pulsars, accreting black holes, and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provide an opportunity for constraining the emissio…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 39 cited

Calibrations of the Compton Spectrometer and Imager

Jacqueline Beechert, Hadar Lazar, Steven E. Boggs +12

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a balloon-borne soft -ray telescope (0.2-5 MeV) designed to study astrophysical sources. COSI employs a compact Compton telescope d…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 13 cited

Measurement of Galactic Al with the Compton Spectrometer and Imager

Jacqueline Beechert, Thomas Siegert, John A. Tomsick +11

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a balloon-borne compact Compton telescope designed to survey the 0.2-5 MeV sky. COSI's energy resolution of 0.2% at 1.8 MeV, sin…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 1 cited

Spectral and Timing Analysis of NuSTAR and Swift/XRT Observations of the X-Ray Transient MAXI J0637-430

Hadar Lazar, John A. Tomsick, Sean N. Pike +10

We present results for the first observed outburst from the transient X-ray binary source MAXI J0637-430. This study is based on eight observations from the Nuclear Spectroscopic T…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 11 cited

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager Project for MeV Astronomy

John A. Tomsick, Steven E. Boggs, Andreas Zoglauer +33

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a 0.2-5 MeV Compton telescope capable of imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of astrophysical sources. Such capabilities are made p…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 16 cited

COSI: From Calibrations and Observations to All-sky Images

Andreas Zoglauer, Thomas Siegert, Alexander Lowell +13

The soft MeV gamma-ray sky, from a few hundred keV up to several MeV, is one of the least explored regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The most promising technology to access…

physics.ins-det2021★ 14 cited

Study of energy response and resolution of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter to hadrons of energies from 16 to 30 GeV

Jalal Abdallah, Stylianos Angelidakis, Giorgi Arabidze +68

Three spare modules of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter were exposed to test beams from the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator at CERN in 2017. The measurements of the energy response…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 30 cited

Imaging the 511 keV positron annihilation sky with COSI

Thomas Siegert, Steven E. Boggs, John A. Tomsick +10

The balloon-borne Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) had a successful 46-day flight in 2016. The instrument is sensitive to photons in the energy range - MeV. Compton t…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 37 cited

Detection of the 511 keV Galactic positron annihilation line with COSI

Carolyn A. Kierans, Steven E. Boggs, Andreas Zoglauer +10

The signature of positron annihilation, namely the 511 keV -ray line, was first detected coming from the direction of the Galactic center in the 1970's, but the source of Galact…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 21 cited

Benchmarking simulations of the Compton Spectrometer and Imager with calibrations

Clio C. Sleator, Andreas Zoglauer, Alexander W. Lowell +9

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a balloon-borne gamma-ray (0.2-5 MeV) telescope designed to study astrophysical sources. COSI employs a compact Compton telescope desi…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 41 cited

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager

John A. Tomsick, Andreas Zoglauer, Clio Sleator +21

In this Astro2020 APC White Paper, we describe a Small Explorer (SMEX) mission concept called the Compton Spectrometer and Imager. COSI is a Compton telescope that covers the bandp…