Search Results - "Zajczyk, Anna"
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An Analysis of the North Polar Spur Using HaloSat
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-11-2020)“…We present HaloSat X-ray observations of the entirety of the bright X-ray emitting feature known as the North Polar Spur (NPS). The large field of view of…”
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A HaloSat Analysis of the Cygnus Superbubble
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-12-2020)“…The Cygnus Superbubble(CSB)is a region of soft X-ray emission approximately 13 degrees wide in the direction of the local spiral arm. Such a large region might…”
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Widespread Detection of Two Components in the Hot Circumgalactic Medium of the Milky Way
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-09-2022)“…Abstract Surrounding the Milky Way (MW) is the circumgalactic medium (CGM), an extended reservoir of hot gas that has significant implications for the…”
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X-ray polarimetry with the Polarization Spectroscopic Telescope Array (PolSTAR)
Published in Astroparticle physics (15-02-2016)“…This paper describes the Polarization Spectroscopic Telescope Array (PolSTAR), a mission proposed to NASA’s 2014 Small Explorer (SMEX) announcement of…”
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X-Ray Polarimetry with the Polarization Spectroscopic Telescope Array (PolSTAR)
Published in Astroparticle physics (30-10-2015)“…This paper describes the Polarization Spectroscopic Telescope Array (PolSTAR), a mission proposed to NASA's 2014 Small Explorer (SMEX) announcement of…”
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The Double-Sided Silicon Strip Detector Tracker onboard the ComPair Balloon Flight
Published 26-07-2024“…The ComPair balloon instrument is a prototype of the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) mission concept. AMEGO aims to bridge the spectral gap…”
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Confirmation of Intervening Filaments of Galaxies at the Redshifts of $Chandra$ WHIM Absorption Features
Published 13-11-2017“…We report the $a~posteriori$ confirmation of two large-scale filaments along the sight-line of the blazar 1ES~1553+113, which correspond to Warm-Hot…”
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Widespread Detection of Two Components in the Hot Circumgalactic Medium of the Milky Way
Published 04-08-2022“…Surrounding the Milky Way (MW) is the circumgalactic medium (CGM), an extended reservoir of hot gas that has significant implications for the evolution of the…”
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Results from the CsI Calorimeter onboard the 2023 ComPair Balloon Flight
Published 10-05-2024“…The ComPair gamma-ray telescope is a technology demonstrator for a future gamma-ray telescope called the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO)…”
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The 2023 Balloon Flight of the ComPair Instrument
Published 03-10-2024“…Proc. SPIE 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 130937Z (21 August 2024) The ComPair balloon instrument is a prototype…”
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The Compton-Pair telescope: A prototype for a next-generation MeV $\gamma$-ray observatory
Published 23-08-2023“…PoS(ICRC2023)857 The Compton Pair (ComPair) telescope is a prototype that aims to develop the necessary technologies for future medium energy gamma-ray…”
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Ambiguity of converting phase-averaged flux into luminosity for millisecond pulsars in gamma rays
Published 16-05-2008“…We study a magnitude of possible over/underestimation of the actual gamma-ray luminosity L_{actual} of a millisecond pulsar when using so-called pseudo…”
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A HaloSat Analysis of the Cygnus Superbubble
Published 12-01-2021“…ApJ, 905, 91 (2020) The Cygnus Superbubble (CSB) is a region of soft X-ray emission approximately 13 degrees wide in the direction of the local spiral arm…”
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Development of the ComPair gamma-ray telescope prototype
Published 06-10-2022“…Proc. SPIE 12181, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 121812G (31 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628811 There is a…”
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An Unfolding Method for X-ray Spectro-Polarimetry
Published 18-11-2014“…Astropart. Phys. 64 (2015) 40-48 X-ray polarimetry has great scientific potential and new experiments, such as X-Calibur, PoGOLite, XIPE, and GEMS, will not…”
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The first detection of a pulsar with ALMA
Published 12-02-2018“…Pulsars are neutron stars, stellar corpses left over after supernova explosions of stars about ten times as massive as our Sun, with densities comparable to…”
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Tests of the Lorentz and CPT Symmetries at the Planck Energy Scale with X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Observations
Published 26-07-2013“…X-ray and gamma-ray observations of astrophysical objects at cosmological distances can be used to probe the energy dependence of the speed of light with high…”
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The X-ray Polarization Probe mission concept
Published 23-07-2019“…The X-ray Polarization Probe (XPP) is a second generation X-ray polarimeter following up on the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The XPP will offer…”
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Optimization of <= 200 um pitch CZT detectors for future high-resolution X-ray instrumentation in astrophysics
Published 14-01-2015“…Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9213, id. 921308 10 pp. (2014) Cadmium Zinc Telluride and Cadmium Telluride are the detector materials of choice for the…”
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The X-ray scattering polarimeter X-Calibur
Published in 2014 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC) (01-11-2014)“…X-ray polarimetry holds the promise to resolve the inner regions of compact systems like mass accreting black holes in X-ray binaries and X-ray bright neutron…”
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