Design and In-Orbit Performance of the Suzaku Wide-Band All-Sky Monitor

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作者
Yamaoka, Kazutaka [1 ]
Endo, Akira [2 ]
Enoto, Teruaki [3 ]
Fukazawa, Yasushi [4 ]
Hara, Ryuji [5 ]
Hanabata, Yoshitaka [4 ]
Hong, Soojing [6 ]
Kamae, Tsuneyoshi [7 ]
Kira, Chie [4 ]
Kodaka, Natsuki [2 ]
Kokubun, Motohide [8 ]
Maeno, Shouta [9 ]
Makishima, Kazuo [3 ,10 ]
Miyawaki, Ryohei [3 ]
Morigami, Kouichi [2 ]
Murakami, Toshio [11 ]
Nakagawa, Yujin E. [10 ]
Nakazawa, Kazuhiro [3 ]
Ohmori, Norisuke [5 ]
Ohno, Masanori [8 ]
Onda, Kaori [2 ]
Sato, Goro [8 ]
Sonoda, Eri [5 ]
Sugita, Satoshi [1 ,10 ]
Suzuki, Masanobu [2 ]
Suzuki, Motoko [12 ]
Tajima, Hiroyasu [7 ]
Takahashi, Tadayuki [8 ]
Takahashi, Takuya [4 ]
Tanaka, Hiroki [5 ]
Tamagawa, Tohru [10 ]
Tashiro, Makoto S. [2 ]
Terada, Yukikatsu [2 ]
Uehara, Takeshi [4 ]
Urata, Yuji [2 ,13 ]
Yamauchi, Makoto [5 ]
Yoshida, Atsumasa [1 ]
Hurley, Kevin [14 ]
PaL'Shin, Valentin [15 ]
Sakamoto, Takanori [16 ,17 ]
Cummings, Jay [16 ,18 ]
机构
[1] Aoyama Gakuin Univ, Dept Phys & Math, Kanagawa 2298558, Japan
[2] Saitama Univ, Dept Phys, Sakura Ku, Saitama 3388570, Japan
[3] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[4] Hiroshima Univ, Dept Phys, Hiroshima 7398526, Japan
[5] Miyazaki Univ, Dept Appl Phys, Miyazaki 8892192, Japan
[6] Nihon Univ, Coll Sci & Technol, Funabashi, Chiba 2748501, Japan
[7] SLAC, Menlo Pk, CA 94025 USA
[8] Japan Aerosp Explorat Agcy, Inst Space & Astronaut Sci, Dept High Energy Astrophys, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 2298510, Japan
[9] Nishi Harima Astron Observ, Hyogo 6795313, Japan
[10] RIKEN, Inst Phys & Chem Res, Makishima Cosm Radiat Lab, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan
[11] Kanazawa Univ, Dept Phys, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 9201192, Japan
[12] Japan Aerosp Explorat Agcy, Inst Space & Astronaut Sci, ISS Sci Project Team, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058505, Japan
[13] Acad Sinica, Inst Astron & Astrophys, Taipei 106, Taiwan
[14] Univ Calif Berkeley, Space Sci Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[15] AF Ioffe Phys Tech Inst, Expt Astrophys Lab, St Petersburg 194021, Russia
[16] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[17] Oak Ridge Associated Univ, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[18] Univ Maryland, Joint Ctr Astrophys, Baltimore, MD 21250 USA
关键词
gamma rays: observations; instrumentation: detectors; GAMMA-RAY BURST; BOARD SUZAKU; EARTH OCCULTATION; DETECTOR HXD; SPECTROMETER; CALIBRATION; ASTRO-E2; CATALOG; WIND;
D O I
10.1093/pasj/61.sp1.S35
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The Suzaku Wide-band All-sky Monitor (WAM) consists of thick BGO anti-coincidence shields of the Hard X-ray Detectors (HXD). It views about half of the sky and has a geometrical area of 800 cm(2) per side and an effective area of 400 cm(2), even at 1 MeV. Hence, the WAM can provide unique opportunities to detect high-energy emission from GRBs and solar flares in the sub-MeV to MeV range. The WAM has detected more than 400 GRBs and 100 solar flares since its launch. This paper describes the in-flight performance of the HXD/WAM during the initial two years of operations, including the in-flight energy response, spectral and timing capabilities, and in-orbit background.
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页码:S35 / S53
页数:19
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