PDS experiment on board the BeppoSAX satellite: design and in-flight performance results

Filippo Frontera; Enrico Costa; Daniele Dal Fiume; Marco Feroci; Luciano Nicastro; M. Orlandini; Eliana Palazzi; Guido Zavattini

doi:10.1117/12.283770

15 October 1997 PDS experiment on board the BeppoSAX satellite: design and in-flight performance results

Filippo Frontera, Enrico Costa, Daniele Dal Fiume, Marco Feroci, Luciano Nicastro, M. Orlandini, Eliana Palazzi, Guido Zavattini

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Proceedings Volume 3114, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.283770
Event: Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation '97, 1997, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The phoswich detection system (PDS) is one of the four narrow field experiments on board the x-ray astronomy satellite BeppoSAX. PDS is devoted to deep temporal and spectral studies of celestial x-ray sources in the 15 - 300 keV energy band. It also includes a gamma-ray burst monitor. In this paper we compare the expected and observed in-flight performances. Our estimate of systematic errors in the background subtraction and in the spectral reconstruction are also presented and discussed.

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Filippo Frontera, Enrico Costa, Daniele Dal Fiume, Marco Feroci, Luciano Nicastro, M. Orlandini, Eliana Palazzi, and Guido Zavattini "PDS experiment on board the BeppoSAX satellite: design and in-flight performance results", Proc. SPIE 3114, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, (15 October 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.283770

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