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The Advanced Pair Telescope (APT) Mission ConceptWe present a mission concept for the Advanced Pair Telescope (APT), a high-energy gamma-ray instrument with an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity, 6 sr field of view, and angular resolution a factor of 3-10 times that of GLAST. With its very wide instantaneous field-of-view and large effective area, this instrument would be capable of detecting GRBs at very large redshifts, would enable a very high resolution study of SNRs and PWN, and could provide hour-scale temporal resolution of transients from many AGN and galactic sources. The APT instrument will consist of a Xe time-projection-chamber tracker that bridges the energy regime between Compton scattering and pair production and will provide an unprecedented improvement in angular resolution; a thick scintillating-fiber trackerlcalorimeter that will provide sensitivity and energy resolution to higher energies and will possess a factor of 10 improvement in geometric factor over GLAST; and an anticoincidence detector using scintillator-tiles to reject charged particles. After the anticipated 10-years of GLAST operation , the APT instrument would provide continued coverage of the critial high-energy gamma-ray band (between 30 MeV to 100 GeV), providing an essential component of broad-band multiwavelength studies of the high-energy universe.
Document ID
20080043895
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Hunter, Stanley
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Buckley, James H.
(Washington Univ. United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
March 31, 2008
Subject Category
Astronomy
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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