Space-based gamma-ray detectors

Issue		EAS Publications Series Volume 37, 2009 Astrophysics Detector Workshop 2008


Page(s)		155 - 170
DOI		10.1051/eas/0937019
Published online		11 June 2009

Astrophysics Detector Workshop 2008
P. Kern (ed)
EAS Publications Series, 37 (2009) 155-170
DOI: 10.1051/eas/0937019

P. von Ballmoos

Centre d'Étude Spatiale des Rayonnements, Université de Toulouse, 9 avenue du Colonel Roche, 31028 Toulouse, France;

pvb@cesr.fr

Published online: 11 June 2009

Abstract
Instruments for nuclear astrophysics collect photons using geometric optics, quantum optics or wave optics. Despite their disparate aperture systems, hard X- and soft gamma-ray telescopes have in common the way photons are detected, i.e. the non-dispersive spectroscopy performed in their detectors – gaz-filled counters, scintillators, and semiconductor detectors. The objective of the present short review is to focus on the status of these detectors in space-based gamma-ray instruments.

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