Swift/BAT Calibration and the Estimated BAT Hard X-ray Survey Sensitivity

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5165, Issue , 2004, Pages 190-200

  Parsons, Ann ^a   Tueller, Jack ^a   Krimm, Hans ^a,b   Barthelmy, Scott ^a   Cummings, Jay ^a,b   Markwardt, Craig ^a,c   Hullinger, Derek ^a,c   Gehrels, Neil ^a   Fenimore, Ed ^d   Palmer, David ^d   Sato, Goro ^e   Nakazawa, Kazuhiro ^e   Takahashi, Tadayuki ^e   Watanabe, Shin ^e   Okada, Yuu ^f   Takahashi, Hiromitsu ^f   Suzuki, Masaya ^g   Tashiro, Makoto ^g  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrophysics; BAT; Burst; Coded aperture; CZT; Gamma ray; GRB; Hard x ray survey; Swift

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAMMA RAYS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

BAT; BURST; CODED APERTURE; CZT; GRB; HARD X-RAY SURVEY; SWIFT;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 11144355349     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.506309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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