In Orbit Timing Calibration of the Suzaku Hard X-ray Detector

Author

Terada, Yuki ; Enoto, T. ; Miyawaki, R. ; Fukazawa, Yoshiaki ; Kawaharada, M. ; Kamae, Tune ; Kokubun, Motohide ; Makishima, K. ; Mizuno, Takayuki ; Murakami, Toshiyuki ; Nakazawa, K. ; Nomach, M. ; Takahashi, Tatsuro ; Takahashi, Hiroki ; Tashiro, M.S. ;

Author_Institution

RIKEN, Saitama

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006

Firstpage

783

Lastpage

787

Abstract

Suzaku is the fifth Japanese astrophysical satellite, devoted to study high energy phenomena in the X-ray band of 0.5-600 keV. It was successfully launched from Uchinoura Space Center in Japan on 10th July 2005. The HXD on board Suzaku covers 10-600 keV band with a high sensitivity of about 10^-5 cnt/s/cm²/keV level. The sensor consists of 16 identical GSO/BGO well-type-phoswich counters incorporating 2 mm-thick silicon PIN diodes, and 20 surrounding-BGO-shield counters to remove residual non X-ray backgrounds through anti-coincidence rejection. The present paper is particularly focused on timing system of the HXD and in-orbit verifications with pulsars.

Keywords

X-ray astronomy; X-ray detection; aerospace instrumentation; artificial satellites; 0.5 to 600 keV; Suzaku hard X-ray detector; Uchinoura Space Center; anticoincidence rejection; astronomical satellites; astrophysical satellite; gamma-ray spectroscopy detectors; orbit timing calibration; silicon PIN diodes; Calibration; Counting circuits; Nuclear and plasma sciences; Photonic crystals; Physics; Satellites; Silicon; Spectroscopy; Timing; X-ray detectors; Astronomical satellites; Gamma-ray spectroscopy detectors; in-orbit performance; timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0560-2

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.355968

Filename

4179122