Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Aug 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992ipe..reptq....d&link_type=abstract
Thesis Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Campos (Brazil).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Astrophysics, Imaging Techniques, X Ray Imagery, X Ray Telescopes, Angular Resolution, Field Of View, High Energy Interactions, Southern Hemisphere
Scientific paper
The development of the TIMAX project, the first imaging telescope for hard x-rays built in the Southern Hemisphere, is described. A new and elegant manner of providing an antimask of the initial mask without the addition of extra weight to the experiment is shown and the advantages of this method are emphasized. The TIMAX experiment has an angular resolution of approximately 1 deg .7 in a 10 deg x 10 deg (FWHM) field of view with a sensitivity of 7 x 10-5 photons cm-2s-lkeV-l in the 30-100 keV range, for an integration time of 104 s at a residual atmosphere of 3.5 g(cm-2). With this sensitivity images of the brightest sources in the Southern Hemisphere are able to be produced. We are particularly interested in the Galactic Center Region. New hard x-ray images of this poorly studied region of the sky are the main contributions of the experiment for the evolution of high energy astrophysics.
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