A large area telescope for balloon-borne hard X-ray astronomy

Details A large area telescope for balloon-borne hard X-ray astronomy A large area telescope for balloon-borne hard X-ray astronomy

Dec 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984nimpa.228..183b&link_type=abstract

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 228, Issue 1, p. 183-192.

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A balloon-borne hard X-ray telescope is described that has been designed to make highly sensitive observations of cosmic sources in the energy range 15 to 300 keV. The payload is characterized by a combination of NaI(Tl) based detector of a novel design and spectroscopic proportional counters, providing a total sensitive area of 5000 cm2 and a 1 standard deviation sensitivity at the level of about 4 × 10-6 photons cm-2 s-1 keV-1. All of the telescope sub-systems are described including the micro-processor based orientation platform that provides a pointing stability of better than 10 arc min. The physical characteristics of the detectors are included along with a summary of the telescope performance during a balloon flight in 1982.

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