Title :
The Goddard Space Flight Center Solid State Spectrometer for the HEAO-B Mission
Author :
Joyce, Robert M. ; Becker, Robert H. ; Birsa, Francis B. ; Holt, Stephen S. ; Noordzy, Marion P.
Author_Institution :
NASA/Goddard Space Flighy center Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
Abstract :
A non-dispersive, cryogenically-cooled X-ray detector system, to be flown as one of the focal-plane experiments on the High Energy Astrophysical Observatory-B, is described. The instrument is designed to measure the X-ray flux in the 500 eV to 5000 eV range with an energy resolution of 150 eV (pulser) and a temporal resolution approaching 2 ¿sec.
Keywords :
Energy measurement; Energy resolution; Extraterrestrial measurements; Instruments; Observatories; Pulse measurements; Solid state circuits; Space missions; Spectroscopy; X-ray detectors;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.1978.4329347
