Gamma-ray burst monitoring with the hard X-ray detector onboard the ASTRO-E mission

Journal Article · Thu Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1996 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.51609· OSTI ID:21163557

Yoshida, A; Ezawa, H; Fukazawa, Y; Hirayama, M; Idesawa, E; Ikeda, H; Ishisaki, Y; Iyomoto, N; Kamae, T; Kataoka, J; Kaneda, H; Kubo, H; Makishima, K; Matsushita, K; Matsuzaki, K; Mizuno, T; Murakami, T; Nagata, K; Nakamae, S; Nomachi, M ^[1]

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1. Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-01 (Japan)

ASTRO-E is the fifth Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite scheduled to be launched in year 2000. The satellite will carry three scientific instruments, one of which is the Hard X-ray Detector (HXD). HXD will cover the 10-600 keV band with low background of severalx10{sup -6}c/s/cm{sup 2}/keV. This will be achieved by the well-type phoswich counter technique together with large active shield counters of BGO (about 1200 cm{sup 2}/side), which are also capable to detect GRBs in the 100-2000 keV band. About 100 GRBs are expected to be detected per year with HXD.

• OSTI ID: 21163557
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 384; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS
COSMIC PHOTONS
COSMIC RAY DETECTION
GAMMA ASTRONOMY
GAMMA DETECTION
HARD X RADIATION
KEV RANGE
SATELLITES