Detection of polarized gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula with the Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector
Detection of polarized gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula with the Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector
Abstract We present the results from the Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) observation of the Crab nebula. The main part of SGD is a Compton camera, which in addition to being a spectrometer, is capable of measuring polarization of gamma-ray photons. The Crab nebula is one of the brightest X-ray/gamma-ray …