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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

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

Titel

Hard X-Ray Detector (HXD) on Board Suzaku

Ist Teil von

• Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2007-01, Vol.59 (sp1), p.S35-S51

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: Oxford Universtiy Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) on board Suzaku covers a wide energy range from 10 keV 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 $142 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$ at 20 keV and $273 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$ at 150 keV, the background level at sea level reached $\sim 1 \times 10^{-5} \,\mathrm{cts} \,\mathrm{s}^{-1} \,\mathrm{cm}^{-2} \,\mathrm{keV}^{-1}$ at 30 keV for the PIN diodes, and $\sim 2 \times 10^{-5} \,\mathrm{cts} \,\mathrm{s}^{-1} \,\mathrm{cm}^{-2} \,\mathrm{keV}^{-1}$ at 100 keV, and $\sim 7 \times 10^{-6} \,\mathrm{cts} \,\mathrm{s}^{-1} \,\mathrm{cm}^{-2} \,\mathrm{keV}^{-1}$ at 200 keV 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 $\sim 4 \,\mathrm{cm}$ thick BGO crystals, have a large effective area for sub-MeV to MeV $\gamma$ -rays. They work as an excellent $\gamma$ -ray burst monitor with limited angular resolution ( $\sim 5^{\circ}$ ). The on-board signal-processing system and the data transmitted to the ground are also described.