Status and future prospects for gamma-ray polarimetry

Academic Article

Abstract

  • The recent detection of linear polarization from GRB120206 has piqued the interest of the community in this relatively unexplored avenue of research. Here, we review the current status and prospects for GRB polarimetry at hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray energies. After reviewing the most recent results, we present a brief survey of current and planned experiments that are capable of making GRB polarization measurements in the energy range between 30 keV and 30 MeV.
  • Authors

  • McConnell, Mark
  • Bloser, PF
  • Status

    Publication Date

  • 2006
  • Has Subject Area

    Keywords

  • Sun : X-rays, gamma rays
  • gamma rays : bursts
  • gamma rays : observations
  • instrumentation : polarimeters
  • polarization
  • Digital Object Identifier (doi)

    Start Page

  • 237
  • End Page

  • 246
  • Volume

  • 6
  • Issue

  • S1