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A&A Supplement series, Vol. 122, April II 1997, 341-356

Received May 15; accepted December 2, 1996

The high pressure gas scintillation proportional counter on-board the BeppoSAX X-ray astronomy satellite

G. Manzo - S. Giarrusso - A. Santangelo - F. Ciralli - G. Fazio - S. Piraino - A. Segreto

Send offprint request: A. Santangelo:andrea@ifcai.pa.cnr.it
CNR - Istituto di Fisica Cosmica ed Applicazioni dell'Informatica, Via Mariano Stabile 172, 90139 Palermo, Italy

Abstract:

In this paper we describe the High Pressure Gas Scintillation Proportion Counter, one of the Narrow Field Instrument of the X-ray astronomy satellite BeppoSAX. Sensitive in the 4-120 keV band, the HPGSPC will study all astrophysical sources emitting in the poorly studied hard X-ray band. The design and performances of the instrument are reported together with results of the on-ground calibration data analysis.

keywords: instrumentation: detectors -- X-ray: general





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