Capability of the ASTRO-E Hard X-ray Detector for high-energy transients and γ-ray Bursts

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Apr 2000

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THE FIFTH COMPTON SYMPOSIUM. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 510, pp. 667-670 (2000).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation

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The Hard X-Ray Detector (HXD) is one of the instruments on board ASTRO-E, scheduled for lanch in January-February 2000. The HXD consists of 16 Well-type phoswich counters, surrounded by 20 active shield counters (Anti Coincidence Counters: Anti-Counters). It covers the energy range 10-600 keV with a very low background. Because the Anti-Counters are made of thich high-Z material with a very large geometrical area, they retain a large effective area up to high energies. Therefore the Anti-Counters can be used for monitoring high-energy transient sources and γ-ray bursts. In this paper, the all sky monitoring function with the Anti-Counters and the result of their ground calibration tests are described. .

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