Wide band X-ray Imager (WXI) and Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) for the NeXT Mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5488, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 549-560

  Takahashi, T ^a,b   Awaki, A ^c   Dotani, T ^a   Fukazawa, Y ^d   Hayashida, K ^e   Kamae, T ^f   Kataoka, J ^g   Kawai, N ^g   Kitamoto, S ^h   Kohmura, T ⁱ   Kokubun, M ^b   Koyama, K ^j   Makishima, K ^b   Matsumoto, H ^j   Miyata, E ^e   Murakami, T ^k   Nakazawa, K ^a   Nomachi, M ^e   Ozaki, M ^a   Tajima, H ^f   Tashiro, M ^l   Tamagawa, T ^m   Terada, Y ^m   Tsunemi, H ^e   Tsuru, T ^j   Yamaoka, K ⁿ   Yonetoku, D ^k   Yoshida, A ⁿ   more..

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^g TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^h RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ KOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^l SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^m RIKEN   (Japan)

ⁿ AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

more..

Author keywords

CdTe; Compton camera; Gamma ray; Gamma ray Astronomy; Hard X ray; X ray astronomy

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; BANDWIDTH; CAMERAS; DETECTORS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MIRRORS; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TELESCOPES; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

CDTE; COMPTON CAMERA; GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY; HARD X-RAY;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 10044295143     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551500     Document Type: Conference Paper

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