A&A Supplement series, Vol. 122, April II 1997, 357-369
Received May 15; accepted June 3, 1996
F. Frontera
- E. Costa
- D. Dal Fiume
- M. Feroci
- L. Nicastro
- M. Orlandini
- E. Palazzi
- G. Zavattini
Send offprint request: frontera@tesre.bo.cnr.it
Istituto Tecnologie e Studio Radiazioni Extraterrestri, CNR, Via
Gobetti, 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Ferrara, Via Paradiso, 11, 44100
Ferrara, Italy
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale, CNR, Via E. Fermi, 21, 00044 Frascati,
Italy
BeppoSAX/PDS experiment is one of four narrow field instruments of the BeppoSAX payload,
that also includes two wide field cameras. The goal of PDS is to extend the
energy range of BeppoSAX to hard X-rays. The operative energy range of PDS is 15 to
300 keV, where the experiment can perform sensitive spectral and temporal
studies of celestial sources. The PDS detector is composed of 4 actively
shielded NaI(Tl)/CsI(Na) phoswich scintillators with a total geometric area of
and a field of view of 13 (FWHM). In this paper we describe
the experiment design and discuss its functional performance and calibration
data analysis system.
keywords: instrumentation: detectors -- space vehicles -- X-ray: general