Conceptual Diagram of the Emulsion Gamma Ray Telescope (IMAGE)

Kobe University

Conceptual Diagram of the Emulsion Gamma Ray Telescope

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It consists of a converter made of a layer stack of emulsion film, time stamp mechanism multistage shifter, and orientation- monitoring star camera. The converter picks up gamma ray electron pair creation reaction, adds time information with the time stamp mechanism, and by combining this with the orientation monitoring data we can determine the direction of gamma rays from space.

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Kobe University

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