The InFOCμS hard X-ray telescope: Pixellated CZT detector/shield performance and flight results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 945-956

  Baumgartner, Wayne H ^a,b   Tueller, J ^a   Krimm, H ^a   Barthelmy, S ^a   Berendse, F ^a,b   Ryan, L ^a   Birsa, F ^a   Okajima, T ^a,c   Kunieda, H ^d   Ogasaka, Y ^c   Tawara, Y ^c   Tamura, K ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; BALLOONS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

BALLOON FLIGHTS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037957219     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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