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COSI

(2000s balloon-based gamma ray telescope)

COSI (for Compton Spectrometer and Imager, formerly NCT for Nuclear Compton Telescope) is a balloon-based gamma-ray telescope that has made several flights since 2005. It has science goals, including GRB polarimetry, but also serves as a pilot for technologies that will be used in future space-based gamma-ray observatories.


(telescope,airborne,gamma rays)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Compton_Telescope
http://cosi.ssl.berkeley.edu/
https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/conferences/future_gamma_obs/program/COSI_final.pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001AIPC..587..877B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...738....8B/abstract

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