Capability of the ASTRO-E Hard X-ray Detector for high-energy transients and γ-ray bursts

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Terada, Y [1 ]
Yamaoka, K [1 ]
Kokubun, M [1 ]
Kotoku, J [1 ]
Mizuno, T [1 ]
Kataoka, J [1 ]
Takahasi, T [1 ]
Murakami, T [1 ]
Makishima, K [1 ]
Kamae, T [1 ]
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[1] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 113, Japan
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FIFTH COMPTON SYMPOSIUM | 2000年 / 510卷
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The Hard X-Ray Detector (HXD) is one of the instruments on board ASTRO-E, scheduled for lanch in January-February 2000. The HXD consists of 16 Well-type phoswich counters, surrounded by 20 active shield counters (Anti Coincidence Counters: Anti-Counters). It covers the energy range 10-600 keV with a very low background. Because the Anti-Counters are made of thich high-Z material with a very large geometrical area, they retain a large effective area up to high energies. Therefore the Anti-Counters can be used for monitoring high-energy transient sources and gamma-ray bursts. In this paper, the ail sky monitoring function with the Anti-Counters and the result of their ground calibration tests are described.
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