Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) on board Suzaku

Tadayuki Takahashi; Keiichi Abe; Manabu Endo; Yasuhiko Endo; Yuuichiro Ezoe; Yasushi Fukazawa; Masahito Hamaya; Shinya Hirakurl; Soojing Hong; Michihiro Horii; Hokuto Inoue; Naoki Isobe; Takeshi Itoh; Naoko Iyomoto; Tuneyoshi Kamae; Daisuke Kasama; Jun Kataoka; Hiroshi Kato; Madoka Kawaharada; Naomi Kawano; Kengo Kawashima; Satoshi Kawasoe; Tetsuichi Klshishita; Takao Kltaguchi; Yoshihito Kobayashi; Motohide Kokubun; Jun'ichi Kotoku; Manabu Kouda; Aya Kubota; Yoshikatsu Kuroda; Greg Madejski; Kazuo Makishima; Kazunori Masukawa; Yukari Matsumoto; Takefumi Mitani; Ryohei Miyawaki; Tsunefumi Mizuno; Kunishiro Mori; Masanori Mori; Mio Murashima; Toshio Murakami; Kazuhiro Nakazawa; Hisako Niko; Masaharu Nomachi; Yuu Okada; Masanori Ohno; Kousuke Oonuki; Naomi Ota; Hideki Ozawa; Goro Sato; Shingo Shinoda; Masahiko Sugiho; Masaya Suzuki; Koji Taguchi; Hiromitsu Takahashi; Isao Takahashi; Shin'ichiro Takeda; Ken Ichi Tamura; Takayuki Tamura; Takaaki Tanaka; Chiharu Tanihata; Makoto Tashiro; Yukikatsu Terada; Shin'ya Tominaga; Yasunobu Uchiyama; Shin Watanabe; Kazutaka Yamaoka; Takayuki Yanagida; Daisuke Yonetoku

doi:10.1093/pasj/59.sp1.s35

Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) on board Suzaku

Tadayuki Takahashi^*, Keiichi Abe, Manabu Endo, Yasuhiko Endo, Yuuichiro Ezoe, Yasushi Fukazawa, Masahito Hamaya, Shinya Hirakurl, Soojing Hong, Michihiro Horii, Hokuto Inoue, Naoki Isobe, Takeshi Itoh, Naoko Iyomoto, Tuneyoshi Kamae, Daisuke Kasama, Jun Kataoka, Hiroshi Kato, Madoka Kawaharada, Naomi KawanoKengo Kawashima, Satoshi Kawasoe, Tetsuichi Klshishita, Takao Kltaguchi, Yoshihito Kobayashi, Motohide Kokubun, Jun'ichi Kotoku, Manabu Kouda, Aya Kubota, Yoshikatsu Kuroda, Greg Madejski, Kazuo Makishima, Kazunori Masukawa, Yukari Matsumoto, Takefumi Mitani, Ryohei Miyawaki, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Kunishiro Mori, Masanori Mori, Mio Murashima, Toshio Murakami, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Hisako Niko, Masaharu Nomachi, Yuu Okada, Masanori Ohno, Kousuke Oonuki, Naomi Ota, Hideki Ozawa, Goro Sato, Shingo Shinoda, Masahiko Sugiho, Masaya Suzuki, Koji Taguchi, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Isao Takahashi, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Ken Ichi Tamura, Takayuki Tamura, Takaaki Tanaka, Chiharu Tanihata, Makoto Tashiro, Yukikatsu Terada, Shin'ya Tominaga, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Shin Watanabe, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Takayuki Yanagida, Daisuke Yonetoku

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The Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) on board Suzaku covers a wide energy range from 10keV to 600 keV by the combination of silicon PIN diodes and GSO scintillators. The HXD is designed to achieve an extremely low in-orbit background based on a combination of new techniques, including the concept of a well-type active shield counter. With an effective area of 142cm² at 20keV and 273cm² at 150keV, the background level at sea level reached ∼ 1 × 10^-5 cts s^-1 cm^-2keV ^-1 at 30 keV for the PIN diodes, and ∼ 2 × 10^-5 cts s^-1 cm^-2keV^-1 at 100keV, and ∼ 7 × 10^-6 cts s^-1 cm^-2keV^-1 at 200keV for the phoswich counter. Tight active shielding of the HXD results in a large array of guard counters surrounding the main detector parts. These anti-coincidence counters, made of ∼ 4cm thick BGO crystals, have a large effective area for sub-MeV to MeV x-rays. They work as an excellent y-ray burst monitor with limited angular resolution (∼ 5°). The on-board signal-processing system and the data transmitted to the ground are also described.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	S35-S51
Journal	Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Volume	59
Issue number	1 SPEC. ISS.
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/59.sp1.s35
Publication status	Published - 2007
Externally published	Yes

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Instrumentation: detectors
X-rays: general

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Takahashi, T., Abe, K., Endo, M., Endo, Y., Ezoe, Y., Fukazawa, Y., Hamaya, M., Hirakurl, S., Hong, S., Horii, M., Inoue, H., Isobe, N., Itoh, T., Iyomoto, N., Kamae, T., Kasama, D., Kataoka, J., Kato, H., Kawaharada, M., ... Yonetoku, D. (2007). Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) on board Suzaku. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 59(1 SPEC. ISS.), S35-S51. https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/59.sp1.s35

Takahashi, T, Abe, K, Endo, M, Endo, Y, Ezoe, Y, Fukazawa, Y, Hamaya, M, Hirakurl, S, Hong, S, Horii, M, Inoue, H, Isobe, N, Itoh, T, Iyomoto, N, Kamae, T, Kasama, D, Kataoka, J, Kato, H, Kawaharada, M, Kawano, N, Kawashima, K, Kawasoe, S, Klshishita, T, Kltaguchi, T, Kobayashi, Y, Kokubun, M, Kotoku, J, Kouda, M, Kubota, A, Kuroda, Y, Madejski, G, Makishima, K, Masukawa, K, Matsumoto, Y, Mitani, T, Miyawaki, R, Mizuno, T, Mori, K, Mori, M, Murashima, M, Murakami, T, Nakazawa, K, Niko, H, Nomachi, M, Okada, Y, Ohno, M, Oonuki, K, Ota, N, Ozawa, H, Sato, G, Shinoda, S, Sugiho, M, Suzuki, M, Taguchi, K, Takahashi, H, Takahashi, I, Takeda, S, Tamura, KI, Tamura, T, Tanaka, T, Tanihata, C, Tashiro, M, Terada, Y, Tominaga, S, Uchiyama, Y, Watanabe, S, Yamaoka, K, Yanagida, T & Yonetoku, D 2007, 'Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) on board Suzaku', Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, vol. 59, no. 1 SPEC. ISS., pp. S35-S51. https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/59.sp1.s35

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