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16 October 1995 High-Pressure Gas Scintillation Proportional Counter on SAX and its performance characteristics
Salvatore Giarrusso, Andrea E. Santangelo, G. Fazio, S. Piraino, Alberto Segreto, Giuseppe Manzo, Ezio Alippi, P. Dalla Ricca, Anna Lenti, F. Gilardi
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Proceedings Volume 2517, X-Ray and EUV/FUV Spectroscopy and Polarimetry; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.224913
Event: SPIE's 1995 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1995, San Diego, CA, United States
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The high pressure gas scintillation proportional counter (HPGSPC) is one of the narrow field instruments onboard the Italian Dutch mission for x-ray astronomy SAX. Sensitive in the 4 - 120 keV band the HPGSPC will investigate all categories of astrophysical sources emitting in the not yet well studied hard x-ray domain with a special emphasis on the cyclotron line features that are present in the hard x-ray spectrum of many celestial sources. The on-ground calibration of the flight model of the HPGSPC was carried out at Laben, Italy during October/November 1994. In this paper after describing the flight model of the HPGSPC instrument, we report preliminary results on its spectral capabilities and background rejection efficiency.
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Salvatore Giarrusso, Andrea E. Santangelo, G. Fazio, S. Piraino, Alberto Segreto, Giuseppe Manzo, Ezio Alippi, P. Dalla Ricca, Anna Lenti, and F. Gilardi "High-Pressure Gas Scintillation Proportional Counter on SAX and its performance characteristics", Proc. SPIE 2517, X-Ray and EUV/FUV Spectroscopy and Polarimetry, (16 October 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.224913
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Scintillation
Hard x-rays
Calibration
Instrument modeling
X-ray astronomy
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