NASA NTRS · 19780019098
The cosmic X-ray experiment aboard HEAO-1
Abstract
The HEAO-1 A-2 experiment, designed to study the large scale structure of the galaxy and the universe at X-ray energies is described. The instrument consists of six gas proportional counters of three types nominally covering the energy ranges of 0.15-3 keV, 1.2-20 keV, and 2.5-60 keV. The two low energy detectors have about 400 sq cm open area each while the four others have about 800 sq cm each. Dual field of view collimators allow the unambiguous determination of instrument internal background and diffuse X-ray brightness. Instrument characteristics and early performance are discussed.
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Rothschild, R. E., Bolt, E., Holt, S., Serlemitsos, P. J., Garmire, G., Agrawal, P., Reigler, G., Bowyer, C. S., Lampton, M.. 1978-06-01. The cosmic X-ray experiment aboard HEAO-1. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19780019098
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