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Beam test of a prototype phoswich detector assembly for the PoGOLite astronomical soft gamma-ray polarimeter
Fukazawa, Y.; Kamae, T.; Kanai, Y. +27 more
We report about the beam test on a prototype of the balloon-based astronomical soft gamma-ray polarimeter, PoGOLite (Polarized Gamma-ray Observer Light Version) conducted at KEK Photon Factory, a synchrotron radiation facility in Japan. The synchrotron beam was set at 30, 50, and 70 keV and its polarization was monitored by a calibrated polarimete…
Proton irradiation of swept-charge devices for the Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS)
Smith, D. R.; Gow, J.; Holland, A. D.
This paper presents work carried out in support of swept-charge device (SCD) characterisation for the Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) instrument. A brief overview of the C1XS instrument is presented, followed by a description of SCD structure and operation. The SCD test facility and method of device characterisation using two different dri…
Development of an n-channel CCD, CCD-NeXT1, for Soft X-ray Imager onboard the NeXT satellite
Takagi, Shin-Ichiro; Koyama, Katsuji; Matsumoto, Hironori +10 more
NeXT (New X-ray Telescope) is the next Japanese X-ray astronomical satellite mission after the Suzaku satellite. NeXT aims to perform wide band imaging spectroscopy. Due to the successful development of a multilayer coated mirror, called a supermirror, NeXT can focus X-rays in the energy range from 0.1 up to 80 keV. To cover this wide energy range…