Design criteria for small coded aperture masks in gamma-ray astronomy

Details Design criteria for small coded aperture masks in gamma-ray astronomy Design criteria for small coded aperture masks in gamma-ray astronomy

Nov 1990

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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 295, Issue 3, p. 477-488.

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Most theoretical work on coded aperture masks in X-ray and low-energy γ-ray astronomy has concentrated on masks with large numbers of elements. For γ-ray spectrometers in the MeV range, the detector plane usually has only a few discrete elements, so that masks with small numbers of elements are called for. For this case it is feasible to analyse by computer all the possible mask patterns of given dimension to find the ones that best satisfy the desired performance criteria. In this paper we develop a particular set of performance criteria for comparing the flux sensitivities, source positioning accuracies and transparencies of different mask patterns. We then present the results of such a computer analysis for masks up to dimension 5 × 5 unit cell and conclude that there is a great deal of flexibility in one's choice of mask pattern for each dimension.

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