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Calibration of the Gamma-RAy Polarimeter Experiment (GRAPE) at a Polarized Hard X-Ray Beam
P. F. Bloser, J. S. Legere, M. L. McConnell +4
The Gamma-RAy Polarimeter Experiment (GRAPE) is a concept for an astronomical hard X-ray Compton polarimeter operating in the 50 - 500 keV energy band. The instrument has been opti…
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 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…
GRAPE - A Balloon-Borne Gamma-Ray Polarimeter Experiment
P. F. Bloser, J. S. Legere, J. R. Macri +3
This paper reviews the development status of GRAPE (the Gamma-Ray Polarimeter Experiment), a hard X-ray Compton Polarimeter. The purpose of GRAPE is to measure the polarization of…
CASTER - a concept for a Black Hole Finder Probe based on the use of new scintillator technologies
Mark L. McConnell, Peter F. Bloser, Gary Case +13
The primary scientific mission of the Black Hole Finder Probe (BHFP), part of the NASA Beyond Einstein program, is to survey the local Universe for black holes over a wide range of…
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…