Sentences with phrase «ionization calorimeter»
But a balloon - borne detector flying over Antarctica called the Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) has detected 70 more high - energy electrons than the normal background level attributed to supernova blasts.
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That's why the results from the NASA - funded Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) balloon experiment sparked interest last fall (Science, 21 November 2008, p. 1173).
Pierre Auger's water tanks represent one way to do it; experiments borne by balloon, like the Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter, are another.
The Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter, shown here in Antarctica before a 2005 launch, detected cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere.