Development of a Monte Carlo simulator for the Astro-E2 Hard X-ray Detector (HXD-II)

Yukikatsu Terada; Shin Watanabe; Masanori Ohno; Masaya Suzuki; Takeshi Itoh; Isao Takahashi; Goro Sato; Mio Murashima; Naomi Kawano; Yasunobu Uchiyama; Shin Kubo; Tadayuki Takahashi; Makoto Tashiro; Motohide Kokubun; Kazuo Makishima; Tsuneyoshi Kamae; Toshio Murakami; Masaharu Nomachi; Yasushi Fukazawa; Kazutaka Yamaoka; Kazuhiro Nakazawa; Daisuke Yonetoku

doi:10.1109/TNS.2005.852681

Development of a Monte Carlo simulator for the Astro-E2 Hard X-ray Detector (HXD-II)

Yukikatsu Terada^*, Shin Watanabe, Masanori Ohno, Masaya Suzuki, Takeshi Itoh, Isao Takahashi, Goro Sato, Mio Murashima, Naomi Kawano, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Shin Kubo, Tadayuki Takahashi, Makoto Tashiro, Motohide Kokubun, Kazuo Makishima, Tsuneyoshi Kamae, Toshio Murakami, Masaharu Nomachi, Yasushi Fukazawa, Kazutaka YamaokaKazuhiro Nakazawa, Daisuke Yonetoku

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Abstract

The Hard X-ray Detector (HXD-II) is one of the scientific payloads on board the fifth Japanese cosmic X-ray satellite Astro-E2, scheduled for launch in 2005. The HXD-II is designed to cover a wide energy range of 10-600 keV with a high sensitivity of about 10^-5 cnt/s/cm² /keV. In order to derive the energy response of the sensor and to estimate the background, a Monte Carlo simulator based on the Geant4 toolkit is currently being developed. This paper describes the design concept of the HXD-II software package, including the analysis tools and the Monte Carlo simulator, and its verification through a comparison with actual data taken by pre-flight radio-isotope irradiation experiments, together with calculated outputs that can demonstrate the in-orbit performance of the HXD-II.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	902-909
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume	52
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2005.852681
Publication status	Published - 2005 Aug

Keywords

Astronomical satellites
Gamma-ray spectroscopy detectors
Monte Carlo
Simulation

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Nuclear Energy and Engineering

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Terada, Y., Watanabe, S., Ohno, M., Suzuki, M., Itoh, T., Takahashi, I., Sato, G., Murashima, M., Kawano, N., Uchiyama, Y., Kubo, S., Takahashi, T., Tashiro, M., Kokubun, M., Makishima, K., Kamae, T., Murakami, T., Nomachi, M., Fukazawa, Y., ... Yonetoku, D. (2005). Development of a Monte Carlo simulator for the Astro-E2 Hard X-ray Detector (HXD-II). IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 52(4), 902-909. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2005.852681

Terada, Y, Watanabe, S, Ohno, M, Suzuki, M, Itoh, T, Takahashi, I, Sato, G, Murashima, M, Kawano, N, Uchiyama, Y, Kubo, S, Takahashi, T, Tashiro, M, Kokubun, M, Makishima, K, Kamae, T, Murakami, T, Nomachi, M, Fukazawa, Y, Yamaoka, K, Nakazawa, K & Yonetoku, D 2005, 'Development of a Monte Carlo simulator for the Astro-E2 Hard X-ray Detector (HXD-II)', IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 902-909. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2005.852681

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