Gamma-ray burst investigation via polarimetry and spectroscopy (GRIPS) (2009)
Greiner, J., Iyudin, A., Kanbach, G., Zoglauer, A., Diehl, R., Ryde, F., ...
Status of instrumental background simulations for gamma-ray telescopes with Geant4 (2008)
Zoglauer, A., Weidenspointner, G., Wunderer, C. B., Boggs, S. E.
MGGPOD: A Monte Carlo Suite for Gamma Ray Astronomy -- Version 1.1 (2007)
Weidenspointner, G., Sturner, S. J., Novikova, E. I., Harris, M. J., Zoglauer, A., Wunderer, C. B., ...
We announce the forthcoming public release of Version 1.1 of MGGPOD, a user-friendly suite of Monte Carlo codes built around the widely used GEANT (Version 3.21) package. MGGPOD is capable of...
The Giant Flare of December 27, 2004 from SGR 1806-20 (2006)
Boggs, Steven E., Zoglauer, A., Bellm, E., Hurley, K., Lin, R. P., Smith, D. M., ...
The giant flare of December 27, 2004 from SGR 1806-20 represents one of the most extraordinary events captured in over three decades of monitoring the gamma-ray sky. One measure of the intensity of...
Monte Carlo Study of Detector Concepts for the MAX Laue Lens Gamma-Ray Telescope (2006)
Weidenspointner, G., Wunderer, C. B., Barriere, N., Zoglauer, A., Von Ballmoos, P.
MAX is a proposed Laue lens gamma-ray telescope taking advantage of Bragg diffraction in crystals to concentrate incident photons onto a distant detector. The Laue lens and the detector are carried...
The MEGA project: science goals and hardware development (2006)
Bloser, P. F., Ryan, J. M., McConnell, M. L., Marci, J. R., Andritschke, R., Kanbach, G., ...
The MEGA project for medium energy gamma-ray astronomy (2006)
Bloser, P. F., Ryan, J. M., McConnell, M. L., Macri, J. R., Bravar, U., Kanbach, G., ...
Hurley, K., Boggs, S. E., Smith, D. M., Duncan, R. C., Lin, R., Zoglauer, A., ...
Soft-gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) are galactic X-ray stars that emit numerous short-duration (about 0.1 s) bursts of hard X-rays during sporadic active periods. They are thought to be magnetars:...
Development and calibration of the tracking Compton/Pair telescope MEGA (2005)
Kanbach, G., Andritschke, R., Zoglauer, A., Ajello, M., McConnell, M. L., Macri, J. R., ...
MEGA: a medium-energy gamma-ray astronomy mission concept (2005)
Bloser, P. F., Ryan, J. M., McConnell, M. L., Macri, J. R., Bravar, U., Kanbach, G., ...
The calibration setup of the MEGA prototype at the high intensity γ-ray source (2004)
Andritschke, R., Zoglauer, A., Kanbach, G., Schrey, F., Bloser, P. F., Hunter, S., ...
MEGA: the next generation medium energy gamma-ray telescope (2004)
Ryan, J. M., Andritschke, R., Bloser, P., Cravens, J., Cherry, M., DiCocco, G., ...
Calibration of the MEGA prototype (2004)
Andritschke, R., Zoglauer, A., Kanbach, G., Schönfelder, V., Schrey, F., Schopper, F., ...
Development of Silicon Strip Detectors for a Medium Energy Gamma-ray Telescope (2003)
Bloser, P. F., Schopper, F., Andritschke, R., Kanbach, G., Zoglauer, A., Lechner, P.
We report on the design, production, and testing of advanced double-sided silicon strip detectors under development at the Max-Planck-Institute as part of the Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy (MEGA)...
Development of silicon strip detectors for a medium energy gamma-ray telescope (2003)
Bloser, P., Schopper, F., Andritschke, R., Kanbach, G., Zoglauer, A., Lechner, P.
The MEGA advanced Compton telescope project (2002)
Bloser, P. F., Andritschke, R., Kanbach, G., Schönfelder, V., Schopper, F., Zoglauer, A.
The MEGA Advanced Compton Telescope Project (2001)
Bloser, P. F., Andritschke, R., Kanbach, G., Schoenfelder, V., Schopper, F., Zoglauer, A., ...
The goal of the Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy (MEGA) telescope is to improve sensitivity at medium gamma-ray energies (0.4-50 MeV) by at least an order of magnitude over that of COMPTEL. This...