Performance of the ASTRO-E hard X-ray detector

M. Tashiro; T. Kamae; K. Makishima; T. Takahashi; T. Murakami; Y. Fukazawa; M. Kokubun; K. Nakazawa; M. Nomachi; A. Yoshida; Y. Ezoe; N. Isobe; N. Iyomoto; J. Kataoka; J. Kotoku; M. Kouda; S. Kubo; A. Kubota; Y. Matsumoto; T. Mizuno; G. M. Madejski; Y. Okada; N. Ota; H. Ozawa; G. Sato; M. Sugiho; M. Sugizaki; I. Takahashi; H. Takahashi; T. Tamura; C. Tanihata; Y. Terada; Y. Uchiyama; S. Watanabe; K. Yamaoka; D. Yonetoku

doi:10.1109/TNS.2002.801491

Performance of the ASTRO-E hard X-ray detector

M. Tashiro^*, T. Kamae, K. Makishima, T. Takahashi, T. Murakami, Y. Fukazawa, M. Kokubun, K. Nakazawa, M. Nomachi, A. Yoshida, Y. Ezoe, N. Isobe, N. Iyomoto, J. Kataoka, J. Kotoku, M. Kouda, S. Kubo, A. Kubota, Y. Matsumoto, T. MizunoG. M. Madejski, Y. Okada, N. Ota, H. Ozawa, G. Sato, M. Sugiho, M. Sugizaki, I. Takahashi, H. Takahashi, T. Tamura, C. Tanihata, Y. Terada, Y. Uchiyama, S. Watanabe, K. Yamaoka, D. Yonetoku

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Abstract

This paper summarizes the design and performance of the hard X-ray detector constructed for the ASTRO-E satellite. The detector utilizes the GSO/BGO well-type phoswich counters in a compound-eye configuration to achieve an extremely low background level of a few × 10^-5counts s^-1 cm^-2keV^-1 [1]. The GSO scintillators installed in the BGO active shield wells are sensitive to 30-600 kev photons, while the 2-mm-thick silicon PIN diodes, placed in front of each GSO crystal, cover the 10-60 kev energy band with a spectral resolution of ∼3.5-keV full-width at half-maximum. The design goals, of both low background and high energy resolution, in the hard X-ray bands were verified through the preflight calibration experiments.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1893-1897
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume	49 I
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2002.801491
Publication status	Published - 2002 Aug
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

ASTRO-E
Background
Hard X-ray detector
Sensitivity
Spectral response

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Tashiro, M., Kamae, T., Makishima, K., Takahashi, T., Murakami, T., Fukazawa, Y., Kokubun, M., Nakazawa, K., Nomachi, M., Yoshida, A., Ezoe, Y., Isobe, N., Iyomoto, N., Kataoka, J., Kotoku, J., Kouda, M., Kubo, S., Kubota, A., Matsumoto, Y., ... Yonetoku, D. (2002). Performance of the ASTRO-E hard X-ray detector. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 49 I(4), 1893-1897. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2002.801491

Tashiro, M, Kamae, T, Makishima, K, Takahashi, T, Murakami, T, Fukazawa, Y, Kokubun, M, Nakazawa, K, Nomachi, M, Yoshida, A, Ezoe, Y, Isobe, N, Iyomoto, N, Kataoka, J, Kotoku, J, Kouda, M, Kubo, S, Kubota, A, Matsumoto, Y, Mizuno, T, Madejski, GM, Okada, Y, Ota, N, Ozawa, H, Sato, G, Sugiho, M, Sugizaki, M, Takahashi, I, Takahashi, H, Tamura, T, Tanihata, C, Terada, Y, Uchiyama, Y, Watanabe, S, Yamaoka, K & Yonetoku, D 2002, 'Performance of the ASTRO-E hard X-ray detector', IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 49 I, no. 4, pp. 1893-1897. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2002.801491

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