Gamma-ray large-area space telescope (GLAST) balloon flight data handling overview

被引：5
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作者：
Burnett, TH [1 ]
Chekhtman, A
Silva, EDE
Dubois, R
Flath, D
Gable, I
Grove, JE
Hartman, RC
Kamae, T
Kavelaars, A
Kelly, H
Kotani, T
Kuss, M
Lauben, D
Lindner, T
Lumb, N
Mizuno, T
Moiseev, A
Ozaki, M
Rochester, LS
Schaefer, R
Spandre, G
Thompson, DJ
Usher, T
Young, K
机构：
[1] Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[2] USN, Res Lab, Washington, DC 20375 USA
[3] Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr, Stanford, CA 94309 USA
[4] Univ Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada
[5] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[6] Univ Pisa, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-56010 Pisa, Italy
[7] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[8] Univ Lyon 1, IPNL, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[9] Hiroshima Univ, Higashihiroshima 7398511, Japan
[10] Inst Space & Aeronaut Sci, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 2298510, Japan
来源：
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE | 2002年 / 49卷 / 04期
基金：
美国国家航空航天局;
关键词：
astronomical satellites; balloons; data handling; data processing; gamma-ray astronomy detectors; GLAST; software;
D O I：
10.1109/TNS.2002.801536
中图分类号：
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号：
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要：
The gamma-ray large-area space telescope (GLAST) balloon flight engineering model (BFEM) represents one of 16 towers that constitute the large area telescope (LAT), a high-energy (> 20 MeV) gamma-ray pair-production telescope being built by an international partnership of astrophysicists and particle physicists for a satellite launch in 2006. The prototype tower consists of a Pb/Si pair-conversion tracker (TKR), a CsI hodoscopic calorimeter (CAL), an anticoincidence detector (ACD), and an autonomous data acquisition (DAQ) system. The self-triggering capabilities and performance of the detector elements have been previously characterized using positron, photon and hadron beams. External target scintillators were placed above the instrument to act as sources of hadronic showers. This paper provides a comprehensive description of the BFEM data-reduction process, from receipt of the flight data from telemetry through event reconstruction and background rejection cuts. The goals of the ground analysis presented here are to verify the functioning of the instrument and to validate the reconstruction software and the background-rejection scheme.
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页码：1904 / 1908
页数：5
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