Recent Results from OSSE on the Compton Observatory

Abstract

The Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment on the COMPTON Observatory was designed to undertake a broad range of high energy astronomical observations. Many of these have been realized during the first three years of the mission. In this paper we present several of the recent results from OSSE. We highlight recent OSSE results on the galactic center region and on transient galactic X-ray sources. In addition, we present OSSE results on the average spectrum of Seyfert galaxies, the search for 44Ti emission from Cas A, and hard X-ray emission from SN1993j.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA461896

Entities

People

  • James D. Kurfess

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Black Holes
  • Bremsstrahlung
  • Cosmic Rays
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Gamma Rays
  • Hard X Rays
  • Intensity
  • Longitude
  • Observatories
  • Radiation
  • Scattering
  • Spectra
  • X Rays

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy/Astrophysics