Calibration of the Spectrometer aboard the INTEGRAL satellite

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1132-1143

  Schanne, Stéphane ^a,j   Cordier, Bertand ^a   Gros, Maurice ^a   Attié, David ^a   Ballmoos, Peter V ^b   Bouchet, Laurent ^b   Carli, Raffaelo ^e   Connell, Paul ^h   Diehl, Roland ^c   Jean, Pierre ^b   Kiener, Jürgen ^d   Kienlin, Andreas V ^c   Knödlseder, Jürgen ^b   Laurent, Philippe ^a   Lichti, Giselher ^c   Mandrou, Pierre ^b   Paul, Jacques ^a   Paul, Philippe ^b   Roques, Jean Pierre ^b   Sanchez, Filomeno ⁱ   Schönfelder, Volker ^c   Shrader, Chris ^f,g   Skinner, Gerry ^b   Strong, Andy ^c   Sturner, Steve ^f,g   Tatischeff, Vincent ^d   Teegarden, Bonnard ^f   Vedrenne, Gilbert ^b   Weidenspointner, Georg ^f,g   Wunderer, Cornelia ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b IRAP   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^d CENTRE DE CALCUL DE L INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

^j CEA SACLAY   (France)

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Author keywords

Calibration; Gamma ray Astronomy; Germanium detectors; INTEGRAL; Space Telescope; SPI

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CALIBRATION; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; IMAGE SENSORS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAY PRODUCTION;

GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037957135     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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