Publications

Papers/Proceedings

• A. Zoglauer et al., "Expected line sensitivity of the MEGA telescope" (0.1 MB, pdf) - Astronomy with Radioactivities V, Clemson 2005 (NewAR 50 (2006) 624-628)
• G. Kanbach et al., "Development and calibration of the tracking Compton/Pair telescope MEGA (0.8 MB, pdf) - Hiroshima 2004 (NIM A 541 (2005) 310-322)
• A. Zoglauer et al., "Imaging Properties of the MEGA Prototype" (0.7 MB, pdf) - IEEE, Portland 2003 (Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec., 2003 IEEE (2004))
• G. Kanbach et al., "The MEGA Project" (1.0 MB, pdf) - Astronomy with Radioactivities IV, Seeon 2003 (NewAR 48 (2004) 275-280)
• R. Andritschke et al., "The Calibration Setup of the MEGA Prototype at the High Intensity Gamma-ray Source" (0.4 MB, pdf) - Astronomy with Radioactivities IV, Seeon 2003 (NewAR 48 (2004) 281-285)
• A. Zoglauer et al., "Data analysis for the MEGA prototype" (0.3 MB, pdf) - Astronomy with Radioactivities IV, Seeon 2003 (NewAR 48 (2004) 231-235)
• G. Kanbach et al., "Concept study for the next generation medium energy gamma-ray astronomy mission - MEGA" (2.2 MB, pdf) - Astronomical Telecopes and Instrumentation, SPIE, Hawaii 2002 (Proc. SPIE 4851 (2003) 1209-1220)
• G. Kanbach et al., "MEGA - A new telescope for medium energy gamma-ray astronomy" (0.6 MB, ps) - International School of Space Science, L'Aquila, Italy 2001 (Frascati Physics Series 24 (2001) 409-416)
• P. Bloser et al., "The MEGA Advanced Compton Telescope Project" (1.7 MB, pdf) - Ringberg Workshop "Astronomy with Radioactivities", Germany 2001 (NewAR 46 (2002) 611-616)
• F. Schopper et al., "CsI calorimeter with 3-D position resolution" (1.1 MB, ps) - New Developments in Photodetection, Beaune, 1999 (NIM A 442 (2000) 394-399)

Posters

• A. Zoglauer et al., "MEGAlib - Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy Library" - Poster (0.5 MB, pdf) and Proceedings (0.2 MB, pdf) - Astronomy with Radioactivities V, Clemson, 2005. (NewAR 50 (2006) 629-632)
• A. Zoglauer et al., "Event reconstruction for Advanced Compton Telescopes" - Poster (0.1 MB, pdf) - HEAD meeting, New Orleans, 2004.
• A. Zoglauer et al., "Image reconstruction for the MEGA prototype" - Poster (0.4 MB, pdf) and Proceedings (0.3 MB, pdf) - 5th Integral Workshop, München, 2004 (ESA SP-552: 5th INTEGRAL Workshop on The INTEGRAL Universe (2004) 917-920).
• A. Zoglauer et al., "Polarization measurements with the MEGA telescope" - Poster (0.2 MB, pdf) and Proceedings (1.0 MB, pdf) - 5th Integral Workshop, München, 2004 (ESA SP-552: 5th INTEGRAL Workshop on The INTEGRAL Universe (2004) 921-924)
• R. Andritschke et al., "Calibration of the MEGA prototype" - Poster (0.5 MB, pdf) and Proceedings (2.1 MB, pdf) - 5th Integral Workshop, München, 2004 (ESA SP-552: 5th INTEGRAL Workshop on The INTEGRAL Universe (2004) 761-764).
• R. Andritschke et al., "The Data Acquisition System for a Compton and Pair-creation sensitive instrument" - Poster (3.7 MB, pdf) and Proceedings (0.7 MB, pdf) - IEEE, Portland 2003 (Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec., 2003 IEEE (2004))
• A. Zoglauer et al., "Doppler Broadening as a Lower Limit to the Angular Resolution of Next Generation Compton Telescopes" - Poster (0.2 MB, pdf) and Proceedings (0.2 MB, pdf) - Astronomical Telecopes and Instrumentation, SPIE, Hawaii 2002 (Proc. SPIE 4581 (2003) 1302-1309)
• P. Bloser et al., "Development of Silicon Strip Detectors For a Medium Energy Gamma-ray telescope" - Poster (0.2 MB, pdf) and Proceedings - Elmau, 2002 (NIM A 512 (2003) 220-228)
• F. Schopper et al., "Development of Silicon strip detectors" - Proceedings (0.3 MB, pdf) and Poster (1.5 MB, zipped ps) - IEEE NSS 2000.
• F. Schopper et al., "MEGA Instrument description" (2.8MB, zipped pdf) - Compton Symposium 1999.

Other related papers

• "Mega stripdetectors final report" (0.2 MB, pdf, german)
• "Silicon Pad-detectors" (0.9 MB, zipped ps) published in Nim A 383 (1996) 89-97

Theses

Doctoral theses

• Robert Andritschke, "Calibration of the MEGA prototype" (230.0 MB, pdf), TU Munich, 12/2006
• Andreas Zoglauer, "First Light for the Next Generation of Compton and Pair Telescopes" (4.6 MB, pdf), TU Munich, 12/2005
• Florian Schopper, "Entwicklung eines Teleskops zur Abbildung von Gammastrahlung mittels Comptonstoss und Paarerzeugung" (5 MB, pdf), TU Munich, 11/2001

Diploma theses

• Andreas Zoglauer, "Methoden der Bildrekonstruktion fuer das Comptonteleskop MEGA" (10.6 MB, pdf), 07/2000
• Robert Andritschke, "Aufbau und Eichung der Kalorimeter fuer das Gammateleskop MEGA" (6.4 MB, pdf), 04/2000
• Christian Nefzger, "Entwicklung von Methoden zur Auswertung von Einzel-Ereignissen des neuartigen Gamma-Teleskops MEGA" (1.5 MB, pdf), 01/2000
• Martin Hofmann, "Monte-Carlo-Simulation eines Mittelenergie-Gamma-Detektors mit Datenauswertung" (5.0 MB, pdf), 11/1998

Studies

• Final report of pre-phase A study