Scientific calibration of the PICsIT engineering model detector of the IBIS telescope

Guido Di Cocco; Giuseppe Malaguti; O. Pinazza; Filomena Schiavone; John Buchan Stephen; Gianclaudio Ferro; Claudio Labanti; Aldo Spizzichino; Massimo Trifoglio; Ezio Caroli

doi:10.1117/12.366536

22 October 1999 Scientific calibration of the PICsIT engineering model detector of the IBIS telescope

Guido Di Cocco, Giuseppe Malaguti, O. Pinazza, Filomena Schiavone, John Buchan Stephen, Gianclaudio Ferro, Claudio Labanti, Aldo Spizzichino, Massimo Trifoglio, Ezio Caroli

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Proceedings Volume 3765, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy X; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.366536
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1999, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

IBIS is the imaging telescope onboard the ESA satellite INTEGRAL, which will be launched in September, 2001. IBIS will produce images of the gamma-ray sky in the region between 15 keV and 10 MeV by means of a position sensitive detection lane coupled with a coded aperture mask. The detection plane of IBIS comprises two position sensitive layers: ISGRI and PICsIT. PICsIT is a 64 X 64 unit array of approximately equals 0.75 cm² crystals operative in the energy range between 150 keV and 10 MeV. The engineering model (EM) of PICsIT has now been calibrated and delivered to ESA. In this work we present the preliminary results obtained from the PICsIT EM scientific calibrations. These test were the first occasion for measuring the general behavior of the detector in terms of the key scientific performances. The gain, linearity, energy resolution, lower energy threshold and background counting rate for each detection unit and the variation of these parameters as a function of pixel position and were measured. Preliminary results regarding event multiplicity distribution, and energy resolution degradation for multiple events are also presented.

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Guido Di Cocco, Giuseppe Malaguti, O. Pinazza, Filomena Schiavone, John Buchan Stephen, Gianclaudio Ferro, Claudio Labanti, Aldo Spizzichino, Massimo Trifoglio, and Ezio Caroli "Scientific calibration of the PICsIT engineering model detector of the IBIS telescope", Proc. SPIE 3765, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy X, (22 October 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.366536

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