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Scientific paper
Oct 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006nimpa.566..433l&link_type=abstract
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 566, Issue 2, p. 433-441.
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Instrumentation, X- And Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy, Radiation Detectors, Neutrino, Muon, Pion, And Other Elementary Particle Detectors, Cosmic Ray Detectors, X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation
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The low-energy attenuation of the covering material of the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) large area detectors (LADs) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory as well as the small-angle response of the LADs have been studied. These effects are shown to be more significant than previously assumed. The LAD entrance window included layers of an aluminum-epoxy composite (hexel) that acted as a collimator for the lowest energy photons entering the detector just above threshold (20 50 keV). Simplifying assumptions made concerning the entrance window materials and the angular response at incident angles near normal to the detector face in the original BATSE response matrix formalism had little effect on γ-ray burst measurements; however, these assumptions created serious errors in measured fluxes of galactic sources, whose emission is strongest near the LAD energy threshold. Careful measurements of the angular and low-energy dependence of the attenuation due to the hexel plates only partially improved the response. A systematic study of Crab Nebula spectra showed the need for additional corrections: an angular-dependent correction for all detectors and an angular-independent correction for each detector. These corrections have been applied as part of an overall energy and angular-dependent correction to the BATSE response matrices.
Harmon Alan B.
Hunter David
Isaacs Jason
Laird C. E.
Wilson Colleen A.
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