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MGGPOD: A Monte Carlo Suite for Gamma Ray Astronomy -- Version 1.1
G. Weidenspointner, S. J. Sturner, E. I. Novikova +6
We announce the forthcoming public release of Version 1.1 of MGGPOD, a user-friendly suite of Monte Carlo codes built around the widely used GEANT (Version 3.21) package. MGGPOD is…
The Giant Flare of December 27, 2004 from SGR 1806-20
Steven E. Boggs, A. Zoglauer, E. Bellm +5
The giant flare of December 27, 2004 from SGR 1806-20 represents one of the most extraordinary events captured in over three decades of monitoring the gamma-ray sky. One measure of…
The Advanced Compton Telescope Mission
Steven E. Boggs, James Kurfess, James Ryan +30
The Advanced Compton Telescope (ACT), the next major step in gamma-ray astronomy, will probe the fires where chemical elements are formed by enabling high-resolution spectroscopy o…
An exceptionally bright flare from SGR1806-20 and the origins of short-duration gamma-ray bursts
K. Hurley, S. E. Boggs, D. M. Smith +17
Soft-gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) are galactic X-ray stars that emit numerous short-duration (about 0.1 s) bursts of hard X-rays during sporadic active periods. They are thought to b…
MGGPOD: a Monte Carlo Suite for Gamma-Ray Astronomy
G. Weidenspointner, M. Harris, C. Ferguson +3
We have developed MGGPOD, a user-friendly suite of Monte Carlo codes built around the widely used GEANT (Version 3.21) package. The MGGPOD Monte Carlo suite and documentation are p…
Development of Silicon Strip Detectors for a Medium Energy Gamma-ray Telescope
P. F. Bloser, F. Schopper, R. Andritschke +3
We report on the design, production, and testing of advanced double-sided silicon strip detectors under development at the Max-Planck-Institute as part of the Medium Energy Gamma-r…
The MEGA Advanced Compton Telescope Project
P. F. Bloser, R. Andritschke, G. Kanbach +3
The goal of the Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy (MEGA) telescope is to improve sensitivity at medium gamma-ray energies (0.4-50 MeV) by at least an order of magnitude over that o…