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Operation and performance of the OSSE instrument
- Source :
- NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center, The Compton Observatory Science Workshop.
- Publication Year :
- 1992
- Publisher :
- United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 1992.
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Abstract
- The Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE) on the Arthur Holly Compton Gamma Ray Observatory is described. An overview of the operation and control of the instrument is given, together with a discussion of typical observing strategies used with OSSE and basic data types produced by the instrument. Some performance measures for the instrument are presented that were obtained from pre-launch and in-flight data. These include observing statistics, continuum and line sensitivity, and detector effective area and gain stability.
- Subjects :
- Astrophysics
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- NASA Technical Reports
- Journal :
- NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center, The Compton Observatory Science Workshop
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsnas.19920012632
- Document Type :
- Report