Preflight calibration and performance of the Astro-E2/HXD-II wide-band all-sky monitor

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2758-2764

  Ohno, Masanori ^a   Fukazawa, Yasushi ^a   Yamaoka, Kazutaka ^b   Kokubun, Motohide ^c   Terada, Yukikatsu ^d   Kotoku, Jun'ichi ^e   Okada, Yuu ^c   Hong, Soojing ^d,f   Mori, Masanori ^f   Tsutsui, Akihito ^b   Endo, Yasuhiko ^f   Makishima, Kazuo ^c,d   Murakami, Toshio ^g   Nakazawa, Kazuhiro ^h   Takahashi, Tadayuki ^h   Tashiro, Makoto ^f  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

BGO; Calibration; Gamma ray astronomy detectors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOSPHORS; X RAYS;

GAMMA-RAY BURSTS (GRB); HARD X-RAY DETECTOR (HXD); PULSE HEIGHT SPECTRA;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 33144456539     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.860172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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