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The Si/CdTe semiconductor camera of the ASTRO-H Hard X-ray Imager (HXI)

Goro Sato, Kouichi Hagino, Shin Watanabe, Kei Genba, Atsushi Harayama, Hironori Kanematsu, J. Kataoka, M. Katsuragawa, Madoka Kawaharada, Shōgo Kobayashi, M. Kokubun, Yoshikatsu Kuroda, Kazuo Makishima, Kazunori Masukawa, Taketo Mimura, Katsuma Miyake, Hiroaki Murakami, Toshio Nakano, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Hirofumi Noda, Hirokazu Odaka, M. Onishi, Shinya Saito, Rie Sato, Tamotsu Sato, H. Tajima, H. Takahashi, Tadayuki Takahashi, Shin׳ichiro Takeda, Takayuki Yuasa

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment · 2016

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Summary

This paper is a technical instrumentation paper describing the design, development and performance characteristics of a silicon/cadmium telluride semiconductor detector system for the Hard X-ray Imager aboard the ASTRO-H space observatory. The work is fundamental physics and astronomy research with no relevance to agricultural systems, soil health, food production, nutrition or human dietary health.

UK applicability

This paper has no applicability to UK agricultural policy, practice or food systems research. It is pure space physics instrumentation development.

Theme
General food systems / other
Subject
Other / interdisciplinary
Study type
Research
Study design
Research
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
Status
Published
System type
Other
DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2016.03.038
Catalogue ID
BFmobgho5x-c5c1fb

Topic tags

x-ray astronomysemiconductor detectorsspace instrumentationastro-hhard x-ray imaging
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