Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Sep 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995ap%26ss.231..463y&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 231, Issue 1-2, pp. 463-466
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Instruments, Gamma-Ray Bursts, X-Ray Emission
Scientific paper
The High-Energy Transient Experiment (HETE) is designed for the multiwavelengths study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) in UV, X-ray and gamma-ray range with three scientific instruments. The X-ray instrument, Wide-field X-ray Monitor (WXM), consists of four units of one-dimensional position sensitive gas proportional counters and two perpendicularly oriented one-dimensional coded apertures. The WXM has a wide FOV of 1.5 steradian together with the capability to locate GRBs with ˜ 10 arcmin accuracy, and covers photon energies of 2 to 25 keV with an energy resolution of typically ˜ 18 % at 6 keV, measuring wide band spectra together with the gamma-ray spectrometer (FREGATE). The coded X-ray image will be deconvolved on board and the GRB location will be provided to the UV camera within ˜ 1 sec . GRB locations will also be broadcast in “real time” to ground-based observers for follow-up observations.
Fenimore Edward E.
Galassi Mark
Hatsukade Izamu
in 't Zand J. M. J.
Kawai Nobuyuki
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