- Source: Compton telescope
A Compton telescope (also known as Compton camera or Compton imager) is a gamma-ray detector which utilizes Compton scattering to determine the origin of the observed gamma rays.
Compton cameras are usually applied to detect gamma rays in the energy range where Compton scattering is the dominating interaction process, from a few hundred keV to several MeV. They are applied in fields such as astrophysics, nuclear medicine, and nuclear threat detection.
In astrophysics, the most famous Compton telescopes was COMPTEL aboard the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, which pioneered the observation of the gamma-ray sky in the energy range between 0.75 and 30 MeV. A potential successor is NCT – the Nuclear Compton Telescope.
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- Astronomi sinar gama
- Teleskop Luar Angkasa Hubble
- Program Great Observatories
- Observatorium antariksa
- Albert Einstein
- Astronomi
- Semburan sinar gama
- GRB 970508
- Daftar wahana antariksa nirawak menurut program
- Daftar tokoh Inggris
- Compton telescope
- Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
- Nuclear Compton Telescope
- Compton Spectrometer and Imager
- STS-37
- Telescope
- NCT
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Great Observatories program
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
