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Origin of the in-orbit instrumental background of the Hard X-ray Imager onboard Hitomi
Kouichi Hagino, Hirokazu Odaka, Goro Sato +43
Understanding and reducing the in-orbit instrumental backgrounds are essential to achieving high sensitivity in hard X-ray astronomical observations. The observational data of the…
Modeling of proton-induced radioactivation background in hard X-ray telescopes: Geant4-based simulation and its demonstration by Hitomi's measurement in a low Earth orbit
Hirokazu Odaka, Makoto Asai, Kouichi Hagino +47
Hard X-ray astronomical observatories in orbit suffer from a significant amount of background due to radioactivation induced by cosmic-ray protons and/or geomagnetically trapped pr…
The ASTRO-H X-ray Astronomy Satellite
Tadayuki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Richard Kelley +250
The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), with a planne…
Improvements in calibration of GSO scintillators in the Suzaku Hard X-ray Detector
Shin'ya Yamada, Kazuo Makishima, Kazuhiro Nakazawa +27
Improvements of in-orbit calibration of GSO scintillators in the Hard X-ray Detector on board Suzaku are reported. To resolve an apparent change of the energy scale of GSO which ap…
The ASTRO-H Mission
Tadayuki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Richard Kelley +174
The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions initiated by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS). ASTRO-H will…
Modeling and Reproducibility of Suzaku HXD PIN/GSO Background
Yasushi Fukazawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Shin Watanabe +26
Suzaku Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) achieved the lowest background level than any other previously or currently operational missions sensitive in the energy range of 10--600 keV, by u…