STACEE: A Low Threshold Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment for Gamma Ray Astrophysics

STACEE：伽马射线天体物理学的低阈值大气切伦科夫实验

• 批准号: 9722655
• 负责人: Rene Ong
• 金额: $ 95.29万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-08-01 至 2000-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9722655&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STACEE; Low; Threshold; Atmospheric; Cherenkov

This grant will support the construction and operation of a detector which will study high energy photons or gamma rays. Measuring the energy of these particles and determining their origin will help answer many outstanding questions in astrophysics. This will help us to understand pulsars and the phenomena of gamma rays bursts. No detector has yet made measurements of photons in the energy range this detector will probe which means that it is possible that existing new results will be obtained.

这笔赠款将支持建造和操作一个探测器，研究高能光子或伽马射线。 测量这些粒子的能量并确定它们的起源将有助于回答天体物理学中许多悬而未决的问题。 这将有助于我们理解伽玛射线暴和伽玛射线暴现象。 目前还没有探测器能够测量到该探测器探测的能量范围内的光子，这意味着有可能获得现有的新结果。