Development of the HXD-II wide-band all-sky monitor onboard Astro-E2

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2765-2772

  Yamaoka, K ^a   Ohno, M ^b   Terada, Y ^c   Hong, S ^c,d   Kotoku, J ^e   Okada, Y ^f   Tsutsui, A ^a   Endo, Y ^d   Abe, K ^d   Fukazawa, Y ^b   Hirakuri, S ^f   Hiruta, T ^g   Itoh, K ^d   Itoh, T ^f   Kamae, T ^h   Kawaharada, M ^f   Kawano, N ^b   Kawashima, K ^b   Kishishita, T ^g   Kitaguchi, T ^f   Kokubun, M ^f   Madejski, G M ^h   Makishima, K ^c,f   Mitani, T ^g   Miyawaki, R ^f   Murakami, T ⁱ   Murashima, M M ^f   Nakazawa, K ^g   Niko, H ^f   Nomachi, M ^j   Oonuki, K ^g   Sato, G ^g   Suzuki, M ^d   Takahashi, H ^f   Takahashi, I ^f   Takahashi, T ^g   Takeda, S ^g   Tamura, K ^g   Tanaka, T ^g   Tashiro, M ^d   Watanabe, S ^g   Yanagida, T ^f   Yonetoku, D ⁱ   more..

^a AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^h SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

more..

Author keywords

Astronomical satellites; Hard X ray detectors; Scintillation detectors; X ray astronomy

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CRYSTALS; ISOTOPES; SATELLITES; X RAYS;

BROADBAND COVERAGE; HARD X-RAY DETECTOR (HXD); WIDE-BAND AL-SKY MONITORI (WAM);

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 33144482172     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.862778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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