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astro-ph.IM2026
Development of a one-dimensional position sensitive detector for Compton X-ray polarimeters
Abhay Kumar, Santosh V. Vadawale, N. P. S. Mithun +4
The scientific potential of X-ray polarimetry has long been recognized, but the challenges in measuring polarization have left it largely unexplored, particularly in the hard X-ray…
astro-ph.IM2021
Exploring Sub-MeV Sensitivity of AstroSat-CZTI for ON-axis Bright Sources
Abhay Kumar, Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, Santosh V Vadawale +5
The Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) onboard AstroSat is designed for hard X-ray imaging and spectroscopy in the energy range of 20 - 100 keV. The CZT detectors are of 5 mm thi…