Study of MeV gamma-ray imaing trigger for early GRBs using Electron Tracking Compton Camera

2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23654067
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Astronomy
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: TANIMORI Toru 京都大学, 理学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (10179856)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): KUBO Hidetoshi 京都大学, 大学院・理学研究科, 准教授 (40300868) ; TAKADA Atsushi 京都大学, 大学院・理学研究科, 助教 (90531468)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2012
• Keywords: ガンマ線バースト / Population-III / コンプトンカメラ / 気球実験 / 小型衛星 / 宇宙初期 / ガンマ線天文学

Research Abstract

We have developed the Electron Tracking Compton Camera with long-flight balloon Experiment for a wide sky survey for MeV gamma-ray astronomy. Performance test of the Flight Model shows the good reliability of its simulation and the robustness for intense background condition with keeping its detection efficiency. By this simulation, an easy improvement with the change of gas in the ETCC to CF4 with 3atm will increase its effective area up to 10 times of the present ETCC, which will enable us to detect 10-20 GRBs in one month flight. This expected number of GRB is considered enough to certificate the ability of imaging trigger performance of ETCC for long duration early GRBs.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Development of a 30 cm-cube Electron-Tracking Compton Camera for the SMILE-II Experiment (2014)
  • Author(s): Y. Mizumura, T. Tanimori, H. Kubo, A. Takada, J. D. Parker, T. Mizumoto, S. Sonoda, D. Tomono, T. Sawano, K. Nakamura, Y. Matsuoka, S. Komura, S. Nakamura, M. Oda, K. Miuchi, S. Kabuki, Y. Kishimoto, S. Kurosawa, and S. Iwaki
  • Journal Title: Journal of Instrumentation Volume: Vol.9 Pages: C05045
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] SMILE-II : Balloon-borne Telescope for Background-suppressed Soft Gamma-ray Imaging (2014)
  • Author(s): T. Sawano, T. Tanimori, H. Kubo, A. Takada, J. D. Parker, T. Mizumoto, S. Sonoda, Y. Mizumura, D. Tomono, K. Nakamura, Y. Matsuoka, S. Komura, Y. Sato, S. Nakamura, K. Miuchi, S. Kabuki, Y. Kishimoto, S. Kurosawa, S. Iwaki, M. Tanaka, M. Ikeno, and T. Uchida
  • Journal Title: JPS Conf. Proc Volume: Vol.1 Pages: 013099
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Simulation of Gas Avalanche in a Micro Pixel Chamber using Garfield++ (2013)
  • Author(s): A. Takada, T. Tanimori, H. Kubo, J. D. Parker, T. Mizumoto, Y. Mizumura, S. Iwaki, T. Sawano, K. Nakamura, K. Taniue, N. Higashi, Y. Matsuoka, S. Komura, Y. Sato, S. Namamura, M. Oda, S. Sonoda, D. Tomono, K. Miuchi, S. Kabuki, Y. Kishimoto, S. Kurosawa
  • Journal Title: Journal of Instrumentation Volume: Vol.8 Pages: C10023
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Development of the Balloon-Borne sub-MeV Gamma-ray Compton Camera Using an Electron-Tracking Gaseous TPC and a Scintillation Camera (2012)
  • Author(s): K. Ueno, T. Mizumoto, K. Hattori, N. Higashi, S. Iwaki, S. Kabuki, Y. Kishimoto, S. Komura, H. Kubo, S. Kurosawa, Y. Matsuoka, K. Miuchi, K. Nakamura, H. Nishimura, J. Parker, Y. Sato, T. Sawano, A. Takada, T. Tanimori
  • Journal Title: Journal of Instrumentation Volume: 7 Pages: C01088
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Observation of Diffuse Cosmic and Atmospheric Gamma Rays at Balloon Altitudes with an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera (2011)
  • Author(s): Atsushi Takada, Hidetoshi Kubo, Hironobu Nishimura, Kazuki Ueno, Kaori Hattori, Shigeto Kabuki, Shunsuke Kurosawa, Kentaro Miuchi, Eiichi Mizuta, Tsutomu Nagayoshi, Naoki Nonaka, Yoko Okada, Reiko Orito, Hiroyuki Sekiya, Atsushi Takeda, Toru Tanimori
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Volume: 733 Pages: 13
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Observation of relativistic electron and proton precipitations with Balloon Experiment around the Polar (2013)
  • Author(s): Tanimori, T., H. Kubo, K. Miuchi, J. D. Parker, S. Komura, S. Iwaki, T. Sawano, K. Nakamura, S. Nakamura, Y. Matsuoka, T. Mizumoto, Y. Mizumura, M. Oda, S. Sonoda, A. Takada, D. Tomono, E. Turunen, and M. Yamauch
  • Organizer: CapIternational CAWSES-II Symposium
  • Place of Presentation: Nagoya Univ. Toyota Hall. Nagoya Japan
  • Year and Date: 20131118-22
• [Presentation] Possible high sensitivity observations for both line and continuum MeV gamma rays from Super Nova and Remnants by electron tracking Compton camera (2013)
  • Author(s): Tanimori, T
  • Organizer: EUL GRB Workshop 2013 "Gamma-Ray Bursts : New Missions to New Science"
  • Place of Presentation: Extreme Universe Laboratory, Moscow State University, Moscow Russia
  • Year and Date: 20131007-11
• [Presentation] MILE-II : Observation of Celestial and Terrestrial MeV Gamma rays at Balloon altitude using Electron Tracking Compton Camera in the North Pole (2013)
  • Author(s): Tanimori, T, et al
  • Organizer: The 21st ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Program and Related Research
  • Place of Presentation: Thun Switzerland
  • Year and Date: 20130609-13
• [Presentation] Imaging detection for GRBs with high sensitivity and good polarimetry by Electron Tracking Compton camera (2013)
  • Author(s): T. Tanimori
  • Organizer: Long-term Workshop on Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
  • Place of Presentation: Kyoto Univ
  • Year and Date: 2013-11-08
• [Presentation] MeV ガンマ線全天探査のための電子飛検出型コンプトンカメラ開発の進展 (2013)
  • Author(s): 谷森達, 他
  • Organizer: 第13回高宇連研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 石川文教会館, 金沢
  • Year and Date: 2013-03-04
• [Presentation] 高感度MeV ガンマ線観測により期待される宇宙線物理への貢献 (2013)
  • Author(s): 谷森達, 他
  • Organizer: 24年度太陽圏シンポジウム・研究集会
  • Place of Presentation: 名大理学部, 名古屋
  • Year and Date: 2013-03-01
• [Presentation] γ線で宇宙と地球を見る (2013)
  • Author(s): 谷森達
  • Organizer: 24年度宇宙ユニットシンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 京大時計台大ホール, 京都
  • Year and Date: 2013-02-02
• [Presentation] Observation of Celestial and Terrestrial MeV-Gamma-Rays using Electron Tracking Compton Camera with Balloon Experiment in the North Pole (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Tanimori, et al
  • Organizer: 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly
  • Place of Presentation: Mysore, India
  • Year and Date: 20120714-22
• [Presentation] Development of electron tracking Compton camera for both balloon and future satellite experiments for MeV gamma-ray astronomy (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Tanimori, et al
  • Organizer: SPIE : Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012
  • Place of Presentation: Amsterdam Netherland
  • Year and Date: 20120701-06
• [Presentation] Development of electron tracking Compton camera for both balloon and future satellite experiments of MeV gamma-ray astronomy (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Tanimori, et al
  • Organizer: Int. Workshop "Gamma-Ray Bursts : Probing the Science, Progenitors and their Environment"
  • Place of Presentation: Moscow state University, Russia
  • Year and Date: 20120613-15
• [Presentation] 高感度全方位X 線偏光測定の提案 (2012)
  • Author(s): 谷森達
  • Organizer: ガンマ線バースト研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 石川文教会館, 金沢
  • Year and Date: 2012-11-28
• [Presentation] Observation of Gamma-Rays from relativistic electron precipitation with Balloon Experiment around the Northern Polar Cap (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Tanimori, et al
  • Organizer: 第36回極域宙空圏シンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 国立極地研究所, 東京
  • Year and Date: 2012-11-26
• [Presentation] 北極域での気球による相対論的電子降下ガンマ線観測 (2012)
  • Author(s): 谷森達
  • Organizer: 平成24年度・名古屋大学太陽地球環境研究所共同研究集会「脈動オーロラ研究会」
  • Place of Presentation: 名古屋大学
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-07
• [Presentation] Simulation Study for the Higher Sensitivity of an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera at over 1 MeV (2011)
  • Author(s): A. Takada, T. Tanimori, H. Kubo, K. Miuchi, S. Kabuki, J. D. Parker, Y. Kishimoto, T. Mizumoto, K, Ueno, S. Kurosawa, S. Iwaki, T. Sawano, K. Taniue, K. Nakamura, N. Higashi, Y. Matsuoka, S. Komura, Y. Sato
  • Organizer: 2011 IEEE NSS/MIC/RTSD
  • Place of Presentation: Valencia, Spain
  • Year and Date: 20111023-29
• [Presentation] Development of the Balloon-Borne sub-MeV Gamma-ray Compton Camera Using an Electron-Tracking Gaseous TPC and a Scintillation Camera (2011)
  • Author(s): Tetsuya Mizumoto, Toru Tanimori, Hidetoshi Kubo, Kentaro Miuchi, Atsushi Takada, Joseph Parker, Satoru Iwaki, Tatsuya Sawano, Kiseki Nakamura, Yoshihiro Matsuoka, Yasushi Sato, Shotaro Komura, Shigeto Kabuki, Yuji Kishimoto, Shunsuke Kurosawa, Kazuki Ueno
  • Organizer: The 9th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD9)
  • Place of Presentation: Aberystwyth, UK
  • Year and Date: 20110912-16
• [Presentation] Development of a Low-Power Read-Out System Using CMOS ASICs for a m-PIC (2011)
  • Author(s): S. Iwaki, T. Tanimori, H. Kubo, A. Takada, et al
  • Organizer: 2nd International Conference on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors
  • Place of Presentation: Kobe, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20110829-0901
• [Presentation] SMILE-II : Balloon-borne Experiment for Astronomical Observation Using an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera Based on a Gaseous Time Projection Chamber and a Position Sensitive Scintillation Camera (2011)
  • Author(s): T. Sawano, K. Hattori, N. Higashi, S. Iwaki, S. Kabuki, Y. Kishimoto, S. Komura, H. Kubo, S. Kurosawa, Y. Matsuoka, K. Miuchi, T. Mizumoto, K. Nakamura, H. Nishimura, J. Parker, Y. Sato, A. Takada, M. Takahashi, T. Tanimori, K. Taniue, K. Ueno
  • Organizer: 2nd International Conference on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors
  • Place of Presentation: Kobe, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20110829-0901
• [Presentation] Improvement of an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera for Observation of the Crab Nebula at Balloon Altitudes
  • Author(s): T. Sawano, T. Tanimori, H. Kubo, K. Miuchi, S. Kabuki, J. D. Parker, A. Takada, Y. Kishimoto, T. Mizumoto, K. Ueno, S. Kurosawa, S. Iwaki, K. Taniue, K. Nakamura, N. Higashi, Y. Matsuoka, S. Komura, Y. Sato
• [Remarks]
  • URL: http://www-cr.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research/MeV-gamma/index.html