Balloon flight background measurement with actively-shielded planar and imaging CZT detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4497, Issue , 2002, Pages 88-99

  Bloser, P F ^a   Narita, T ^b   Jenkins, J A ^b   Perrin, M ^c   Murray, R ^b   Grindlay, J E ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Background; Balloon flights; CZT; Hard X ray astronomy; Instrumentation; Shielding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOSPHORS; READOUT SYSTEMS; TELESCOPES;

BALLOON FLIGHT BACKGROUND MEASUREMENT; CADMIUM-ZINC-TELLURIDE; COMPTON TELESCOPES; X-RAY ASTRONOMY;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036395037     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454226     Document Type: Article

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