Development and performance of a position sensitive proportion counter for the rosat project |
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Authors: | E Pfeffermann U Briel |
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Institution: | Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik, Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, 8046 Garching, FRG |
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Abstract: | A multiwire proportional counter capable of imaging soft X-rays has been constructed. The position of an incident photon is obtained by measuring the induced charge signals on two orthogonal sets of cathode wire grids. The anode signal is used as trigger and energy signal. At a photon energy of 0.94 keV the achieved position resolution is 300 μm (FWHM), and the energy resolution is 45% (FWHM). With a five sided anticoincidence the background rejection efficiency is 90–95%.A small version of the counter has successfully been flown twice on sounding rocket payloads. X-ray images of the supernova remnants Puppis A and Cassiopeia A have been taken. As the prime focal plane detector for the ROSAT project we are building a version with an aperture of 80 mm. |
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