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astro-ph2007★ 42 cited
PoGOLite - A High Sensitivity Balloon-Borne Soft Gamma-ray Polarimeter
Tuneyoshi Kamae, Viktor Andersson, Makoto Arimoto +36
We describe a new balloon-borne instrument (PoGOLite) capable of detecting 10% polarisation from 200mCrab point-like sources between 25 and 80keV in one 6 hour flight. Polarisation…
astro-ph2005★ 13 cited
Inductive and Electrostatic Acceleration in Relativistic Jet-Plasma Interactions
Johnny S. T. Ng, Robert J. Noble
We report on the observation of rapid particle acceleration in numerical simulations of relativistic jet-plasma interactions and discuss the underlying mechanisms. The dynamics of…
astro-ph2003
Accelerator Experiments for Astrophysics
Johnny S. T. Ng
Many recent discoveries in astrophysics involve phenomena that are highly complex. Carefully designed experiments, together with sophisticated computer simulations, are required to…