Verification of the Astro-E Hard X-ray Detector based on newly developed ground support equipment

Jun Kataoka; Masaharu Nomachi; Tadayuki Takahashi; Ginga Kawaguti; Yukikatsu Terada; Toshio Murakami; Chiharu Tanihata; Yasuhiro Uchiyama; Kazutaka Yamaoka; Yasushi Fukazawa; Tuneyoshi Kamae; Kazuo Makishima; Makoto Tashiro; Hidetoshi Kubo

doi:10.1117/12.330272

10 November 1998 Verification of the Astro-E Hard X-ray Detector based on newly developed ground support equipment

Jun Kataoka, Masaharu Nomachi, Tadayuki Takahashi, Ginga Kawaguti, Yukikatsu Terada, Toshio Murakami, Chiharu Tanihata, Yasuhiro Uchiyama, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Yasushi Fukazawa, Tuneyoshi Kamae, Kazuo Makishima, Makoto Tashiro, Hidetoshi Kubo

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Proceedings Volume 3445, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy IX; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.330272
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We report the first results of the ground test of the Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) on board the Astro-E mission, by means of the newly developed Ground Support Equipment (GSE). Astro-E will be launched in 2000 by a Japanese M-V rocket. In order to verify the detector system during the limited time before launch, fast and versatile GSE is necessary. For this, we have developed a flexible test system based on nine VME I/O boards for a SUN workstation. These boards carry reconfigurable Field Programmable Gate Arrays with 50,000 gates, together with 1 Mbyte SRAM devices tightly coupled to each FPGA device. As an application of using this GSE, we have tested the performance of a phoswitch unit of the Flight Model of the HXD. In this paper, we present a schematic view of the GSE highlighting the functional design,and the result of our ground test of the HXD-sensor under the high count rate environment expected in orbit.

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Jun Kataoka, Masaharu Nomachi, Tadayuki Takahashi, Ginga Kawaguti, Yukikatsu Terada, Toshio Murakami, Chiharu Tanihata, Yasuhiro Uchiyama, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Yasushi Fukazawa, Tuneyoshi Kamae, Kazuo Makishima, Makoto Tashiro, and Hidetoshi Kubo "Verification of the Astro-E Hard X-ray Detector based on newly developed ground support equipment", Proc. SPIE 3445, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, (10 November 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.330272

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