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author Smith, Lucas D.
Cannady, Nicholas
Caputo, Regina
Kierans, Carolyn
Kirschner, Nicholas
Liceaga-Indart, Iker
McEnery, Julie
Metzler, Zachary
Moiseev, A. A.
Parker, Lucas
Perkins, Jeremy
Sasaki, Makoto
Schoenwald, Adam J.
Shy, Daniel
Valverde, Janeth
Wasti, Sambid
Woolf, Richard
Bolotnikov, Aleksey
Caligiure, Thomas J.
Crosier, A. Wilder
Fried, Jack
Ghosh, Priyarshini
Griffin, Sean
Grove, J. Eric
Hays, Elizabeth
Kong, Emily
Mitchell, John
Phlips, Bernard
Sleator, Clio
Thompson, D. J.
Wulf, Eric
Zajczyk, Anna
author_facet Smith, Lucas D.
Cannady, Nicholas
Caputo, Regina
Kierans, Carolyn
Kirschner, Nicholas
Liceaga-Indart, Iker
McEnery, Julie
Metzler, Zachary
Moiseev, A. A.
Parker, Lucas
Perkins, Jeremy
Sasaki, Makoto
Schoenwald, Adam J.
Shy, Daniel
Valverde, Janeth
Wasti, Sambid
Woolf, Richard
Bolotnikov, Aleksey
Caligiure, Thomas J.
Crosier, A. Wilder
Fried, Jack
Ghosh, Priyarshini
Griffin, Sean
Grove, J. Eric
Hays, Elizabeth
Kong, Emily
Mitchell, John
Phlips, Bernard
Sleator, Clio
Thompson, D. J.
Wulf, Eric
Zajczyk, Anna
contents The ComPair balloon instrument is a prototype gamma-ray telescope that aims to further develop technology for observing the gamma-ray sky in the MeV regime. ComPair combines four detector subsystems to enable parallel Compton scattering and pair-production detection, critical for observing in this energy range. This includes a 10 layer double-sided silicon strip detector tracker, a virtual Frisch grid low energy CZT calorimeter, a high energy CsI calorimeter, and a plastic scintillator anti-coincidence detector. The inaugural balloon flight successfully launched from the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility site in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, in late August 2023, lasting approximately 6.5 hours in duration. In this proceeding, we discuss the development of the ComPair Since balloon payload, the performance during flight, and early results.
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spellingShingle The 2023 Balloon Flight of the ComPair Instrument
Smith, Lucas D.
Cannady, Nicholas
Caputo, Regina
Kierans, Carolyn
Kirschner, Nicholas
Liceaga-Indart, Iker
McEnery, Julie
Metzler, Zachary
Moiseev, A. A.
Parker, Lucas
Perkins, Jeremy
Sasaki, Makoto
Schoenwald, Adam J.
Shy, Daniel
Valverde, Janeth
Wasti, Sambid
Woolf, Richard
Bolotnikov, Aleksey
Caligiure, Thomas J.
Crosier, A. Wilder
Fried, Jack
Ghosh, Priyarshini
Griffin, Sean
Grove, J. Eric
Hays, Elizabeth
Kong, Emily
Mitchell, John
Phlips, Bernard
Sleator, Clio
Thompson, D. J.
Wulf, Eric
Zajczyk, Anna
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
The ComPair balloon instrument is a prototype gamma-ray telescope that aims to further develop technology for observing the gamma-ray sky in the MeV regime. ComPair combines four detector subsystems to enable parallel Compton scattering and pair-production detection, critical for observing in this energy range. This includes a 10 layer double-sided silicon strip detector tracker, a virtual Frisch grid low energy CZT calorimeter, a high energy CsI calorimeter, and a plastic scintillator anti-coincidence detector. The inaugural balloon flight successfully launched from the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility site in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, in late August 2023, lasting approximately 6.5 hours in duration. In this proceeding, we discuss the development of the ComPair Since balloon payload, the performance during flight, and early results.
title The 2023 Balloon Flight of the ComPair Instrument
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02557