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

12 citations · 16 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.HE20241 cited

Discovery of the Free Precession in the Magnetar SGR 180620 with the ASCA GIS

Kazuo Makishima, Nagomi Uchida, Teruaki Enoto

Four X-ray data sets of the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1806-20, taken with the Gas Imaging Spectrometer (GIS) onboad ASCA, were analyzed. Three of them were acquired over 1993 October…

astro-ph.HE2023

Further Evidence for the ~ 9 s Pulsation in LS 5039 from NuSTAR and ASCA

Kazuo Makishima, Nagomi Uchida, Hiroki Yoneda +2

The present study aims to reinforce the evidence for the ~9 s pulsation in the gamma-ray binary LS 5039, derived with a Suzaku observation in 2007 and that with NuSTAR in 2016 (Yon…

astro-ph.IM2023

GRBAlpha: the smallest astrophysical space observatory -- Part 1: Detector design, system description and satellite operations

András Pál, Masanori Ohno, László Mészáros +42

Aims. Since launched on 2021 March 22, the 1U-sized CubeSat GRBAlpha operates and collects scientific data on high-energy transients, making it the smallest astrophysical space obs…

astro-ph.IM20223 cited

Early results from GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2

Jakub Ripa, Andras Pal, Masanori Ohno +37

We present the detector performance and early science results from GRBAlpha, a 1U CubeSat mission, which is a technological pathfinder to a future constellation of nanosatellites m…

astro-ph.IM201612 cited

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…