A high angular resolution hard X-ray imager for the high energy detector on-board the SPECTRUM X-GAMMA satellite.
Abstract
A new type of position sensitive MultiWire Proportional Counter (MWPC) has been designed and proposed as the high energy instrument for the Astronomical Satellite Spectrum X-Γ. This X-ray observatory class orbiter, due to be launched at the end of 1993 with an expected operational life-time of three years, comprises three major coaligned instruments. Two of them are based on high throughput X-ray optics, sensitive up to about 20 keV. The third one, named MART-LIME is the high energy instrument to cover the band 5 - 150 keV, i.e. the non thermal part of the cosmic sources spectra. A fourth coaligned detector is an UV telescope that will extend at lower energy the spectral information on the observed sources.
- Publication:
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EUV, X-ray, and Gamma-ray instrumentation for astronomy
- Pub Date:
- November 1990
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.23273
- Bibcode:
- 1990SPIE.1344..479U
- Keywords:
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- Proportional Counters;
- Satellite-Borne Instruments;
- X Ray Imagery;
- X Ray Telescopes;
- Angular Resolution;
- Galactic Clusters;
- High Resolution;
- Onboard Data Processing;
- Spaceborne Telescopes;
- X Ray Binaries;
- Spacecraft Instrumentation;
- Space Instrumentation: X Rays