G. Boella

TL;DR: The X-ray satellite SAX as mentioned in this paper is a major program of the Italian Space Agency with participation of the Netherlands Agency for Aereospace Programs, which was launched on April 30 1996 from Cape Canaveral.

TL;DR: In this article, a Medium Energy Concentrator Spectrometer (MECS) was used on board the X-ray Astronomy Satellite BeppoSAX, operating in the energy range 1:3 10 keV, which consists of a grazing incidence mirror unit and a position sensitive Gas Scintillation Proportional Counter.

TL;DR: In this article, a position sensitive gamma-ray detector from which the focal plane of the telescope may be constructed is described, and the results of laboratory tests on the positional and energy resolution of incident gamma-rays are compared to the relevant theory and the expected performance evaluated via Monte Carlo simulation.

TL;DR: The balloon-flight version of a low energy (0.2 −20 MeV) gamma-ray telescope developed in collaboration by the Milan and Southampton groups is described in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the preliminary results of a positive measurement in the low energy γ-ray region of the spectrum, which are in good agreement with the X-ray data and confirm the intense high energy luminosity of the object.