Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 1998
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Proc. SPIE Vol. 3445, p. 143-154, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, Oswald H. Siegmund; Mark A. Gummin
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We report the first results of the ground test of the Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) on board the Astro-E mission, by means of the newly developed Ground Support Equipment (GSE). Astro-E will be launched in 2000 by a Japanese M-V rocket. In order to verify the detector system during the limited time before launch, fast and versatile GSE is necessary. For this, we have developed a flexible test system based on nine VME I/O boards for a SUN workstation. These boards carry reconfigurable Field Programmable Gate Arrays with 50,000 gates, together with 1 Mbyte SRAM devices tightly coupled to each FPGA device. As an application of using this GSE, we have tested the performance of a phoswitch unit of the Flight Model of the HXD. In this paper, we present a schematic view of the GSE highlighting the functional design,and the result of our ground test of the HXD-sensor under the high count rate environment expected in orbit.
Fukazawa Yasushi
Kamae Tuneyoshi
Kataoka Jun
Kawaguti Ginga
Kubo Hidetoshi
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