A Gas Scintilltation Camera for X-Ray Astronomy
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Vol. 29 (1) , 142-145
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.1982.4335814
Abstract
Results are presented on the development of a Xenon-filled gas scintillation proportional counter camera for application in X-ray astronomy. The camera, with a seven photormultiplier readout system in its basic form, features a bandwidth spanning two decades in energy from about 0.2 keV to 20 keV and exibits spatial and energy resolutions of about 1.7 mm and 9% EWHM at 6 keV respectively. The camera when coupled to a grazing-incidence irraging or coded mask telescope will provide data, as a function of energy on the X-ray morphology of extended X-ray sources such as clusters of galaxies and supernova remnants.Keywords
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