Computer Science
Scientific paper
Sep 1988
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988aipc..170..444c&link_type=abstract
AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 170, pp. 444-450 (1988).
Computer Science
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X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation
Scientific paper
The development, integration, and testing of the Energetic X-ray Imaging Telescope Experiment (EXITE) are described. EXITE is a balloon-borne hard x-ray imaging payload with high sensitivity in the 20-300 keV band, angular resolution of 22 arcmin (with source locations to ~2 arcmin) in a 3.4° FWHM field-of-view and energy resolution of 9% at 122 keV. Details of the detector system, a 34 cm diameter NaI scintillation crystal with image intensification and position-sensitive readout, are described as well as the integration and testing of EXITE into a new balloon gondola with stable (~1 arcmin) pointing. EXITE is able to carry out high-sensitivity (~10 mCrab) observations of SN 1987A to measure the Compton-degraded x-ray and gamma ray continuum, to search for the 122 keV cobalt-57 line, and (at 0.1 msec time resolution) to search for the new pulsar thought to have been produced in the Sn 1987A event.
Braga Jaoa
Covault Corbin E.
Grindlay Jonathan E.
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