JEM-X:: The X-ray monitor aboard INTEGRAL

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Lund, N
Budtz-Jorgensen, C
Westergaard, NJ
Brandt, S
Rasmussen, IL
Hornstrup, A
Oxborrow, CA
Chenevez, J
Jensen, PA
Laursen, S
Andersen, KH
Mogensen, PB
Rasmussen, I
Omo, K
Pedersen, SM
Polny, J
Andersson, H
Andersson, T
Kämäräinen, V
Vilhu, O
Huovelin, J
Maisala, S
Morawski, M
Juchnikowski, G
Costa, E
Feroci, M
Rubini, A
Rapisarda, M
Morelli, E
Carassiti, V
Frontera, F
Pelliciari, C
Loffredo, G
Núñez, SM
Reglero, V
Velasco, T
Larsson, S
Svensson, R
Zdziarski, AA
Castro-Tirado, A
Attina, P
Goria, M
Giulianelli, G
Cordero, F
Rezazad, M
Schmidt, M
Carli, R
Gomez, C
Jensen, PL
Sarri, G
机构
[1] Danish Space Res Inst, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
[2] Metorex Int Oy, Espoo 02631, Finland
[3] Univ Helsinki, Observ, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[4] Space Res Ctr, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland
[5] CNR, Inst Astrofis, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[6] ENEA, Frascati UTS Fus, I-00045 Frascati, Italy
[7] IASF Bologna, I-40129 Bologna, Italy
[8] Univ Ferrara, Dipartmento Fis, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[9] Univ Valencia, GACE, Valencia 46071, Spain
[10] Stockholm Univ, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[11] Copernicus Astron Ctr, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland
[12] CSIC, Inst Astrofis Andalucia, E-18080 Granada, Spain
[13] Alenia Spazio, Space Div, I-10146 Turin, Italy
[14] ESOC, D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany
[15] European Space Agcy, Estec, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, Netherlands
[16] MPI Extraterr Phys, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[17] ISDC, Versoix, Switzerland
[18] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
关键词
instrumentation : detectors; X-rays : general;
D O I
10.1051/0004-6361:20031358
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The JEM-X monitor provides X-ray spectra and imaging with arcminute angular resolution in the 3 to 35 keV band. The good angular resolution and the low energy response of JEM-X plays an important role in the identification of gamma ray sources and in the analysis and scientific interpretation of the combined X-ray and gamma ray data. JEM-X is a coded aperture instrument consisting of two identical, coaligned telescopes. Each of the detectors has a sensitive area of 500 cm(2), and views the sky through its own coded aperture mask. The two coded masks are inverted with respect to each other and provides an angular resolution of 3' across an effective field of view of about 10degrees diameter.
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页码:L231 / L238
页数:8
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