The detector response matrices of the Transient Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (TGRS)

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

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.51677· OSTI ID:575893

Seifert, H ^[1]; Cline, T L; Gehrels, N ^[1]; Mitra, B; Palmer, D M ^[1]; Ramaty, R ^[1]; Teegarden, B J ^[1]; Hurley, K ^[2]; Madden, N; Pehl, R ^[3]; Owens, A ^[4]

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1. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 661, Greenbelt , Maryland 20771 (United States)
2. University of California, Berkeley (United States)
3. Lawrence Berkeley Labs (United States)
4. U. of Leicester (United States)

The Transient Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (TGRS) on the WIND spacecraft is a germanium detector primarily designed to measure high-resolution ({approximately}2{endash}3keV) spectra of bright gamma-ray bursts. The instrument response matrix, used to unfold photon spectra from the measured count spectra, has been obtained by modelling TGRS/WIND with the GEANT detector description and simulation package from CERN. The simulations were verified using laboratory measurements. We present a brief description of the TGRS instrument, as well as an outline of the measurements, simulations and software algorithms used in the generation of the detector response matrices. {copyright} {ital 1996 American Institute of Physics.}

• OSTI ID: 575893
• Report Number(s): CONF-9510332--
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 384; ISSN 0094-243X; ISSN APCPCS
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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44 INSTRUMENTATION
INCLUDING NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE DETECTORS
66 PHYSICS
COMPUTER CODES
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
DATA ANALYSIS
GAMMA ASTRONOMY
GAMMA SPECTROMETERS
GE SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS
MONTE CARLO METHOD
RESPONSE FUNCTIONS