水村 好貴

The center region of our Galaxy has an unresolved emission with a large spatial distribution of tens of degrees order, and its emission mechanism is still a puzzle. We do not understand any kind objects bright in MeV band, while the convolution of unresolved objects are the efficient candidates. Other hands, the Hawking radiation from the primordial black holes (PBHs) with the masses of 1016-17 g or the annihilation of the light weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with the masses of tens of MeV are also the important candidates, because they have the electron-positron annihilation line as a secondary emission which are detected in the Galactic Center region. To reveal the emission mechanism, we need a detailed energy spectrum and an accurate spatial distribution of the diffuse galactic gamma-ray emission, which requires the low-noise and high-sensitivity observations with a true imaging detector having a large field of view. We are developing an electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC) as such a telescope and have demonstrated its capabilities with two balloon experiments in 2006 and 2018. We are now preparing the next balloon flight (SMILE-3) to observe the Galactic Center region. In this presentation, we report on the current status of the component development and the expectations for SMILE-3.