In orbit performance and calibration of the rossi x-ray timing explorer (RXTE) proportional counter array (PCA)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2808, Issue , 1996, Pages 59-70

  Jahoda, K ^a   Swlank, J H ^a   Cues, A B ^a   Stark, M J ^a   Strohmayer, T ^a   Zhang, W ^a   Morgan, E H ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

background; on orbit performance; Proportional Counters; timing

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND; EXTRAGALACTIC SOURCES; HIGH ENERGY X-RAYS; ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENT; TIMING; WIDE FIELD OF VIEW; X-RAY TIMING EXPLORERS;

ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; COUNTING CIRCUITS; EXPERIMENTS; GAMMA RAYS; ORBITS; PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS;

X RAYS;

EID: 34248225775     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.256034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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