M. Kippen
Goddard Space Flight Center
11 Papers
11 Citations
M. Kippen is an academic researcher from Goddard Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gamma-ray burst & Compton telescope. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 11 publications.
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Instrument description and performance of the Imaging Gamma-Ray Telescope COMPTEL aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory
Volker Schoenfelder,H. Aarts,K. Bennett,H. de Boer,J. Clear,Werner Collmar,A. Connors,A. Deerenberg,Roland Diehl,A. von Dordrecht,J. W. den Herder,W. Hermsen,M. Kippen,L. Kuiper,G. G. Lichti,J. A. Lockwood,J. R. Macri,Mark L. McConnell,Derek W. Morris,R. Much,James M. Ryan,G. Simpson,M. Snelling,G. Stacy,Helmut Steinle,Andrew W. Strong,B. N. Swanenburg,B. G. Taylor,C. de Vries,C. Winkler +29 more
TL;DR: The Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (COMPTEL) as discussed by the authors is a gamma-ray line spectrometer with an angular resolution between 1° and 2° within a large field of view of about 1 steradian.
INTEGRAL Spectrometer SPI's GRB detection capabilities. GRBs detected inside SPI's FoV and with the anticoincidence system ACS
A. von Kienlin,Volker Beckmann,A. Rau,N. Arend,K. Bennett,B. McBreen,P. H. Connell,S. Deluit,Lorraine Hanlon,M. Kippen,G. G. Lichti,L. Moran,Robert D. Preece,J. P. Roques,Volker Schoenfelder,Gerald K. Skinner,Andrew W. Strong,Roy Williams +17 more
TL;DR: The spectrometer SPI, one of the two main instruments of the INTEGRAL spacecraft, offers significant gamma-ray burst detection capabilities as mentioned in this paper, with a mean rate of ~ 0.8/month.
BurstCube: A CubeSat for Gravitational Wave Counterparts
Jeremy S. Perkins,Isabella Brewer,Isabella Brewer,Michael S. Briggs,Alessandro Bruno,Eric Burns,Regina Caputo,Brad Cenko,Antonino Cucchiara,Georgia A. de Nolfo,Jeff Dumonthier,Sean Griffin,Sean Griffin,Lorraine Hanlon,Dieter H. Hartmann,Boyan Hristov,Michelle Hui,Alyson Joens,Carolyn Kierans,M. Kippen,Dan Kocevski,John F. Krizmanic,John F. Krizmanic,S. Laha,S. Laha,A. Y. Lien,A. Y. Lien,Israel Martinez-Castellanos,Israel Martinez-Castellanos,Sheila McBreen,Julie McEnery,J. G. Mitchell,Lee J. Mitchell,D. Morris,David Murphy,Judith Racusin,Oliver J. Roberts,Peter Shawhan,J.R. Smith,J.R. Smith,George Suarez,Teresa Tatoli,Alexey Uliyanov,Carlos Vazquez,Sarah Walsh,Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge +45 more
- 13 Dec 2020
TL;DR: BurstCube as mentioned in this paper is a CubeSat with an instrument comprised of 4 Cesium Iodide (CsI) scintillators coupled to arrays of Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) and is sensitive to gamma-rays between 50 keV and 1 MeV.
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DUAL Gamma-Ray Mission
Steven E. Boggs,Cornelia B. Wunderer,P. von Ballmoos,Tadayuki Takahashi,N. Gehrels,J. Tueller,Matthew G. Baring,John F. Beacom,Roland Diehl,Jochen Greiner,Eric Grove,D. H. Hartmann,M. Hernanz,P. Jean,Norman J. Johnson,Gottfried Kanbach,M. Kippen,Jürgen Knödlseder,Mark D. Leising,Grzegorz Madejski,Mark L. McConnell,Peter Milne,K. Motohide,Koji Nakazawa,U. Oberlack,B. F. Phlips,James M. Ryan,G. K. Skinner,Sumner Starrfield,H. Tajima,Eric A. Wulf,Andreas Zoglauer,Allen D. Zych +32 more
TL;DR: The DUAL mission as mentioned in this paper takes up this challenge in two complementary ways: a very long observation of the entire sky, combined with a large collection area for simultaneous observations of Type Ia SNe.
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COMPTEL images locations of gamma‐ray bursts
M. Varendorff,K. Bennett,H. de Boer,M. Busetta,H. Bloemen,Werner Collmar,A. Connors,Roland Diehl,J. W. den Herder,W. Hermsen,M. Kippen,L. Kuiper,G. G. Lichti,J. A. Lockwood,Mark L. McConnell,Derek W. Morris,R. Much,James M. Ryan,V. Schönfelder,G. Stacy,Helmut Steinle,Andrew W. Strong,B. N. Swanenburg,C. de Vries,C. Winkler +24 more
- 01 Sep 1991
TL;DR: In this article, the positions of the sources were derived by the maximum entropy method for the four strongest gamma-ray bursts in the COMPTEL onboard GRO with uncertainties of 1° to 2° and can be reduced in future analysis.