Collimators, coded masks and all sky monitors
Philippe LAURENT
Astroparticule
et Cosmologie (APC)
Cours
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P. Laurent (CEA) is currently the head of the French contribution to the Japanese Astro-H X-ray space mission. He spent his thesis in 1992, by studying hard X data sent by the SIGMA telescope on board the Russian-French mission GRANAT. Then, he participated to the realization and calibration of the ISGRI CdTe camera aboard the satellite INTEGRAL. Since 2016, he is the INTEGRAL/IBIS telescope co-PI. He has managed the IBIS simulation group, and organized the ground calibration of the complete satellite in ESA/ESTEC in 2001. In 2010, he co-leads the French participation to the Japan-French HXI instrument phase A studies for the IXO mission proposal. Since the launch of INTEGRAL, he studied the IBIS data from galactic black holes and neutron stars (such as Cygnus X-1, the Crab pulsar, and Gamma-Ray Bursts), with emphasis on the measure and analysis of the polarization of the gamma-ray light emitted by those sources. |