The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI School of Physical Sciences Department of Space and Astronautical Science, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics Space-Time Engineering Research Team
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 59(1 SPEC. ISS.) S53-S76 Jan 2007 [Refereed]
The in-orbit performance and calibration of the Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) on board the X-ray astronomy satellite Suzaku are described. Its basic performances, including a wide energy bandpass of 10-600keV, energy resolutions of similar to 4 keV (F...
JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS 4(2) Apr 2018 [Refereed]
Hitomi (ASTRO-H) was the sixth Japanese x-ray satellite that carried instruments with exquisite energy resolution of <7 eV and broad energy coverage of 0.3 to 600 keV. The Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) was the Hitomi instrument that observed the h...