Performance of the ASTRO-E hard X-ray detector

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1893-1897

  Tashiro, M ^a   Kamae, T ^b   Makishima, K ^c   Takahashi, T ^d   Murakami, T ^e   Fukazawa, Y ^f   Kokubun, M ^c   Nakazawa, K ^d   Nomachi, M ^g   Yoshida, A ^h   Ezoe, Y ^c   Isobe, N ⁱ   Iyomoto, N ^d   Kataoka, J ^j   Kotoku, J ^c   Kouda, M ^d   Kubo, S ^k   Kubota, A ^d   Matsumoto, Y ^c   Mizuno, T ^b   Madejski, G M ^b   Okada, Y ^c   Ota, N ^d   Ozawa, H ^d   Sato, G ^d   Sugiho, M ^c   Sugizaki, M ⁱ   Takahashi, I ^c   Takahashi, H ^c   Tamura, T ^l   Tanihata, C ^d   Terada, Y ^m   Uchiyama, Y ^d   Watanabe, S ^d   Yamaoka, K ^m   Yonetoku, D ^e   more..

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^e KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^j Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^k Clear Pulse Co Ltd   (Japan)

^l SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^m INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

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Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; PHOSPHORS; PHOTONS;

X-RAY DETECTORS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0036703265     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.801491     Document Type: Article

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