PERFORMANCES OF THE PULSE-SHAPE ELECTRONICS OF THE HIGH-ENERGY EXPERIMENT PDS ON BOARD THE X-RAY ASTRONOMY SATELLITE SAX

Authors
FRONTERA F DALFIUME D LANDINI G ARTINA E BISERNI M CHIAVERINI V MONZANI F COSTA E BUTLER RC
Citation
F. Frontera et al., PERFORMANCES OF THE PULSE-SHAPE ELECTRONICS OF THE HIGH-ENERGY EXPERIMENT PDS ON BOARD THE X-RAY ASTRONOMY SATELLITE SAX, IEEE transactions on nuclear science, 40(4), 1993, pp. 899-904
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
IEEE transactions on nuclear science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189499
Volume
40
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Part
1
Pages
899 - 904
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9499(1993)40:4<899:POTPEO>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
The high energy (15-300 keV) experiment PDS is one of the four narrow field instruments on board the Italian-Dutch SAX satellite. The PDS de tector is composed of 4 actively shielded NaI(Tl)/CsI(Na) phoswich sci ntillators and has a field of view of 1.4-degrees (FWHM). The total ge ometric area is 795 cm2. We will present a description of the instrume nt and its development status with particular emphasis to the performa nces of the pulse shape analysis electronics.