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The hard x-ray imager (HXI) onboard ASTRO-H

Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Goro Sato, M. Kokubun, Teruaki Enoto, Yasushi Fukazawa, Kouichi Hagino, Atsushi Harayama, Katsuhiro Hayashi, J. Kataoka, J. Katsuta, Philippe Laurent, F. Lebrun, Olivier Limousin, Kazuo Makishima, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Kunishiro Mori, Takeshi Nakamori, Toshio Nakano, Hirofumi Noda, Hirokazu Odaka, M. Ohno, Masayuki Ohta, Shinya Saito, Rie Sato, H. Tajima, H. Takahashi, Tadayuki Takahashi, Shin׳ichiro Takeda, Y. Terada, Hideki Uchiyama, Y. Uchiyama, Shin Watanabe, K. Yamaoka, Yoichi Yatsu, Takayuki Yuasa

Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2016

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Summary

This paper describes the Hard X-ray Imager (HXI) instrument deployed aboard the Hitomi X-ray observatory, a space-based astronomical observatory launched in February 2016. The HXI comprises semiconductor detectors and supporting instrumentation designed for X-ray imaging spectroscopy in the 5–80 keV energy range. The work is entirely technical and instrumental in nature, documenting hardware specifications and operational performance for astrophysical observations.

UK applicability

This paper has no applicability to UK farming systems, soil health, nutrient density, or food and human health research. It is an astrophysics instrumentation paper unrelated to agricultural or nutritional science.

Subject
Other / interdisciplinary
Study type
Research
Study design
Conference paper
Source type
Conference paper
Status
Published
System type
Other
DOI
10.1117/12.2231176
Catalogue ID
BFmobgho5x-gtxmrp

Topic tags

astrophysicsx-ray instrumentationspace telescopedetector technologyhitomi observatory
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