Using the Active Collimator and Shield Assembly of an EXIST-Type Mission as a Gamma-Ray Burst Spectrometer

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2006-06-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606065v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

20 pages, 10 Figures, Accepted May 19, 2006 A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20053674

The Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) is a mission design concept that uses coded masks seen by Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detectors to register hard X-rays in the energy region from 10 keV to 600 keV. A partially active or fully active anti-coincidence shield/collimator with a total area of between 15 and 35 square meters will be used to define the field of view of the CZT detectors and to suppress the background of cosmic-ray-induced events. In this paper, we describe the use of a sodium activated cesium iodide shield/collimator to detect gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and to measure their energy spectra in the energy range from 100 keV up to 10 MeV. We use the code GEANT4 to simulate the interactions of photons and cosmic rays with the spacecraft and instrument and the code DETECT2000 to simulate the optical properties of the scintillation detectors. The shield collimator achieves a nu-F-nu sensitivity of 3 x 10^(-9) erg cm^(-2) s^(-1) and 2 x 10^(-8) erg cm^(-2) s^(-1) at 100 keV and 600 keV, respectively. The sensitivity is well matched to that of the coded mask telescope. The broad energy coverage of an EXIST-type mission with active shields will constrain the peak of the spectral energy distribution (SED) for a large number of GRBs. The measurement of the SED peak may be key for determining photometric GRB redshifts and for using GRBs as cosmological probes.

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