In-orbit calibration of the Hard X-ray Detector (HXD-II) onboard Suzaku

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Kitaguchi, T. [1 ]
Kokubun, M. [1 ]
Kawaharada, M. [1 ]
Murashima, M. [1 ]
Miyawaki, R. [1 ]
Yanagida, T. [1 ]
Itoh, T. [1 ]
Hirakuri, S. [1 ]
Enoto, T. [1 ]
Sato, M. [1 ]
Makishima, K. [1 ,3 ]
Takahashi, T. [1 ]
Nakazawa, K. [2 ]
Watanabe, S. [2 ]
Tanaka, T. [1 ,2 ]
Terada, Y. [3 ]
Tamagawa, T. [3 ]
Kubota, A. [3 ]
Fukazawa, Y. [4 ]
Mizuno, M. [4 ]
Takahashi, H. [4 ]
Yamasaki, T. [4 ]
Tashiro, M. [5 ]
Endo, Y. [5 ]
Yamaoka, K. [6 ]
Murakami, T. [7 ]
Yonetoku, D. [7 ]
Kamae, T. [8 ,9 ]
机构
[1] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Bunkyo Ku, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo, Japan
[2] Japan Aerosp Explorat Agcy, ISAS, JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
[3] RIKEN, Inst Phys & Chem Res, Wako, Saitama, Japan
[4] Hiroshima Univ, Dept Phys Sci, Higashikurume, Tokyo, Japan
[5] Saitama Univ, Dept Phys, Saitama, Saitama, Japan
[6] Aoyama Gakuin Univ, Dept Phys, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
[7] Kanagawa Univ, Dept Phys, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
[8] Stanford Univ, Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr, Menlo Pk, CA USA
[9] Stanford Univ, KIPAC, Menlo Pk, CA USA
关键词
astronomy satellite; hard X-ray; detector; spectroscopy;
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10.1117/12.684267
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
The hard X-ray detector (HXD-II) is one of the scientific payloads onboard Suzaku, the 5th Japanese cosmic Xray satellite. After the launch in July 2005, all the HXD-II components, including the sensors and analog/digital electronics, have been working normally. In order to archive the maximum performance of the HXD-II, especially the GSO/BGO well-type phoswich counters, extensive in-orbit qualification and calibration have been carried out utilizing the data acquired in early operations. Major items of these efforts include; to estimate the circuit dead time, calibrate energy scale, optimize the event selection criteria for background reduction, study the background, and examine the detector response. As a result of these in-orbit calibrations, the HXD-II background in the 10 similar to 600 keV range has been successfully lowered to (0.5 similar to 5.0) x 10(-4) c s(-1)keV(-1)cm(-2). This is the lowest among the background ever achieved in orbit by cosmic hard X-ray detectors.
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