Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope Balloon Flight: Data Handling Overview
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-The data-handling sequence for the BFEM has allowed us to verify that the instrument functioned correctly and that the structures put in place provide a useful framework for analyzing the data. Many elements of this sequence will be used to process the data from the flight instrument. Some results of processing the BFEM data are discussed in another paper at this conference [7]. References:
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تاریخ انتشار 2001