Design and Performance of the Wide-Field X-Ray Monitor on Board the High-Energy Transient Explorer 2

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1033-1049

  Shirasak, Yuji ^a,b   Kawai, Nobuyuki ^b,c   Yoshida, Atsumasa ^b,d   Matsuoka, Masaru ^e   Tamagawa, Toru ^b   Torii, Ken'ichi ^b   Sakamoto, Takanori ^b,c   Suzuki, Motoko ^c   Urata, Yuji ^b,c   Sato, Rie ^c   Nakagawa, Yujin ^d   Takahashi, Daiki ^d   Fenimore, Edward E ^f   Galassi, Mark ^f   Lamb, Donald Q ^g   Graziani, Carlo ^g   Donaghy, Timothy Q ^g   Vanderspek, Roland ^h   Yamauchi, Makoto ⁱ   Takagishi, Kunio ⁱ   Hatsukade, Isamu ⁱ   more..

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^f LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^h MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Instrumentation: detector; Instrumentation: proportional counter; Space vehicles: instruments; X rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

X RAY DETECTORS;

ENERGY; GAMMA RAYS BURSTS; INSTRUMENTATION: PROPORTIONAL COUNTER; INSTRUMENTATION:DETECTORS; LOCALISATION; REAL- TIME; SPACE VEHICLES: INSTRUMENTS; WIDE-FIELD; X-RAY MONITOR; X-RAYS: BURSTS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 0347533710     PISSN: 00046264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/55.5.1033     Document Type: Article

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