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The Ability of Cos-B to Measure Gamma-Ray Bursts
Boella, G.; Gorisse, M.; Taylor, B. G. +2 more
The COS-B satellite for gamma-ray astronomy, launched on 7 August, 1975, features as part of the main instrument a 1.1 m2, 10 mm thick, plastic scintillator for the vetoing of charged particle events. This detector which has an average effective area of 360 cm2 for gamma rays in the interval 0.1 to 1 MeV has been instrumented…