Gamma-Ray Observations with CALET: Exposure Map, Response Functions, and Simulated Results
| dc.contributor.author | Cannady, Nicholas | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cherry, Michael L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | CALET Collaboration | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-19T15:16:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-10-19T15:16:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-08-18 | |
| dc.description | The 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference; The Hague, The Netherlands; 30 July - 6 August, 2015 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) is a space-borne cosmic ray instrument planned for installation on the JEM-EF platform on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015. The CALET collaboration is a Japan-led international team involving researchers in Italy and the U.S. In addition to precise measurement of the cosmic ray electron and nuclei spectra, the CALET calorimeter will be capable of gamma-ray observations in the GeV to tens of TeV energy range. This paper presents a study of the expected gamma-ray signal measured by CALET in the first year on orbit. The ISS zenith pointing is simulated at a time resolution of 1 second in order to estimate the exposure map on the sky. The instrument response functions and simulated results of gamma-ray/electron separation for the calorimeter are discussed and used to estimate the expected point source and galactic diffuse signals in the energy range ~10 GeV - ~500 GeV based on known fluxes measured by Fermi-LAT. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The CALET experiment is supported by NASA in the United States, JAXA in Japan, and ASI in Italy. Portions of this research were conducted with high performance computing resources provided by Louisiana State University (http://www.hpc.lsu.edu). AGI Satellite Toolkit (STK) software was used in the generation of some results in this paper. The authors also appreciate the efforts of the Fermi-LAT team in development of the background models used. Reference was made to the University of Chicago TeVCat catalog for collections of source-related information. Financial support for the lead author partially provided by a Louisiana State University Board of Regents Graduate Fellowship. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://pos.sissa.it/236/995/ | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 8 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | conference papers and proceedings | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2kxn1-kb8u | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cannady, Nicholas W., and Michael L. Cherry. “Gamma-Ray Observations with CALET: Exposure Map, Response Functions, and Simulated Results.” In Proceedings of The 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2015), 236:995. SISSA Medialab, 2016. https://doi.org/10.22323/1.236.0995. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.22323/1.236.0995 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/30276 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Proceedings of Science | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Center for Space Sciences and Technology | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Physics Department | |
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| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 1.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/ | * |
| dc.title | Gamma-Ray Observations with CALET: Exposure Map, Response Functions, and Simulated Results | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2916-6955 | en_US |