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X-Ray Polarimetry Workshop SLAC, Stanford, California 9-11 February 2004 |
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RHESSI GRB Polarization Observations
Steven
Boggs
UC Berkeley
boggs@ssl.berkeley.edu
Steven E. Boggs & Wayne Coburn
The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), while not designed as a gamma-ray polarimeter, can be used to measure polarization for bright astrophysical sources such as gamma-ray bursts and solar flares. We will review our current observations of GRBs using RHESSI. We will also discuss the strengths and weaknesses of RHESSI as a gamma-ray polarimeter, and how the lessons learned from RHESSI can be applied to other current instruments searching for polarization (such as INTEGRAL, and our NCT balloon payload), and future instruments sensitive to gamma-ray polarization.
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