Astro-E hard x-ray detector

Tuneyoshi Kamae; Hajime Ezawa; Yasushi Fukazawa; Masaharu Hirayama; Eriko Idesawa; Naoko Iyomoto; Hidehiro Kaneda; Ginga Kawaguti; Motohide Kokubun; Hidetoshi Kubo; Aya Kubota; Kyoko Matsushita; Keiichi Matsuzaki; Kazuo Makishima; Tsunefumi Mizuno; Kazuhiro Nakazawa; Satoko Osone; H. Obayashi; Yoshitaka Saito; Takayuki Tamura; Masaaki Tanaka; Makoto Tashiro; Jun Kataoka; Toshio Murakami; Naomi Ota; Hideki Ozawa; Mutsumi Sugizaki; Kyoko Takizawa; Tadayuki Takahashi; Kazutaka Yamaoka; Atsumasa Yoshida; Hirokazu Ikeda; Kiwamu Tsukada; Masaharu Nomachi

doi:10.1117/12.253993

18 October 1996 Astro-E hard x-ray detector

Tuneyoshi Kamae, Hajime Ezawa, Yasushi Fukazawa, Masaharu Hirayama, Eriko Idesawa, Naoko Iyomoto, Hidehiro Kaneda, Ginga Kawaguti, Motohide Kokubun, Hidetoshi Kubo, Aya Kubota, Kyoko Matsushita, Keiichi Matsuzaki, Kazuo Makishima, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Satoko Osone, H. Obayashi, Yoshitaka Saito, Takayuki Tamura, Masaaki Tanaka, Makoto Tashiro, Jun Kataoka, Toshio Murakami, Naomi Ota, Hideki Ozawa, Mutsumi Sugizaki, Kyoko Takizawa, Tadayuki Takahashi, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Atsumasa Yoshida, Hirokazu Ikeda, Kiwamu Tsukada, Masaharu Nomachi

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Proceedings Volume 2806, Gamma-Ray and Cosmic-Ray Detectors, Techniques, and Missions; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.253993
Event: SPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1996, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

Astro-E is the x-ray satellite to be launched in the year 2000 by Inst. of Space & Astronautical Science. This report deals with the design and expected performance of the hard x-ray detector (HXD), one of the 3 experiments aboard Astro- E. The HXD is a combination of GSO/BGO well-type phoswich counters and silicon PIN diodes: the two combined will cover a wide energy band of 10 - 700 keV. The detector is characterized by its low background of approximately 10^-5/s/cm²/keV and its sensitivity higher than any past missions between a few 10 keV and several 100 keV. Combined with the other 2 experiments, a micro-calorimeter array (XRS) and 4 CCD arrays (XIS), both with x-ray mirrors, the mission will cover the soft and hard x-ray range at a highest sensitivity.

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Tuneyoshi Kamae, Hajime Ezawa, Yasushi Fukazawa, Masaharu Hirayama, Eriko Idesawa, Naoko Iyomoto, Hidehiro Kaneda, Ginga Kawaguti, Motohide Kokubun, Hidetoshi Kubo, Aya Kubota, Kyoko Matsushita, Keiichi Matsuzaki, Kazuo Makishima, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Satoko Osone, H. Obayashi, Yoshitaka Saito, Takayuki Tamura, Masaaki Tanaka, Makoto Tashiro, Jun Kataoka, Toshio Murakami, Naomi Ota, Hideki Ozawa, Mutsumi Sugizaki, Kyoko Takizawa, Tadayuki Takahashi, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Atsumasa Yoshida, Hirokazu Ikeda, Kiwamu Tsukada, and Masaharu Nomachi "Astro-E hard x-ray detector", Proc. SPIE 2806, Gamma-Ray and Cosmic-Ray Detectors, Techniques, and Missions, (18 October 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.253993

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