The Monitor Proportional Counter Instrument for the HEAO-B X-Ray Telescope satellite is designed to observe celestial X-ray sources in the range of 1 to 20 keV with intensities exceeding 2 x 10 -4 Crab. It provides both spectral and temporal data, to complement the data from the other HEAO-B instruments, to compare with observations from previous flights, as well as to allow detailed study of time variant X-ray phenomena. The basic detector is a large area proportional counter system, consisting of two counters, high voltage power supplies and pre-amplifiers, mounted behind a collimator with a 2/3 degree square field of view. The signal processing, power distribution and control electronics are contained in a separate unit, which includes circuitry to perform pulse height analysis, background rejection, time interval measurement, redundancy switching and control, housekeeping and telemetry interfacing.


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    Titel :

    The HEAO-B monitor proportional counter instrument


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Das HEAO-B-Protportionalzaehlrohr


    Beteiligte:
    Gaillardetz, R. (Autor:in) / Bjorkholm, P. (Autor:in) / Mastronardi, M. (Autor:in) / Vanderhill, M. (Autor:in) / Howland, D. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1978


    Format / Umfang :

    8 Seiten, 9 Bilder, 2 Tabellen, 6 Quellen



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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