Study of the Polarimetric Performance of a Si/CdTe Semiconductor Compton Camera for the Hitomi Satellite

Junichiro Katsuta, Ikumi Edahiro, Shin Watanabe +17

Gamma-ray polarization offers a unique probes into the geometry of the gamma-ray emission process in celestial objects. The Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) onboard the X-ray observat…