A Thick, Pixelated Silicon Detector for a Large-Area X-ray Timing Mission

Details A Thick, Pixelated Silicon Detector for a Large-Area X-ray Timing Mission A Thick, Pixelated Silicon Detector for a Large-Area X-ray Timing Mission

Aug 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004head....8.1612r&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #8, #16.12; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.931

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The RXTE mission has been a resounding success over the last decade, showing that large-area X-ray timing is a powerful tool for probing matter in the most extreme environments of gravity, temperature, and magnetic field by studying phenomena in the kHz frequency range. A follow-on mission with an order of magnitude more effective area would make great progress in several areas where RXTE has just given us tantalizing glimpses. Such a mission will require a new detector technology and we are proposing to develop large-area, thick silicon detectors that will enable such a mission. Silicon detectors, when pixelated to reduce the capacitance, can cover the energy range from 2 to 30 keV with superb efficiency at a cost, weight, power, and volume per unit area that will allow an effective area of 6--10 m2 in a MIDEX-class mission. We will present the details of our detector design and development effort which we think will be enabling for several possible mission architectures.
A proposal to NASA to fund this effort is pending.

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