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空间1-80 keV宽带X射线探测器有源屏蔽优化研究

A Study of Active Shielding Optimized for 1-80 keV Wide-Band X-ray Detector in Space

Yoshihiro Furuta, Yuki Murota, Junko S. Hiraga, Makoto Sasano, Hiroaki Murakami, Kazuhiro Nakazawa

摘要:

主动屏蔽是一种有效的技术,以减少背景信号在硬X射线探测器,并使观察黑暗的源在空间中具有高灵敏度。通常在主探测器上覆盖一些由闪烁晶体如BGO(Bi $_4$ Ge $_3$ O $_{12}$)制成的屏蔽探测器,利用它们之间的反符合滤除背景信号。日本的X射线观测卫星“朱雀”和“ASTRO-H”在其硬X射线仪器中采用了这种技术,其观测电压大于10千电子伏。在下一代X射线卫星中,例如NGHXT提案,为了有效性,预期单个混合探测器将覆盖软(1-10 keV)和硬(> 10 keV)X射线。然而,目前的有源屏蔽对于软X射线带(1-10 keV)不是最佳的。例如,包含在BGO中的Bi和Ge具有约10 keV的荧光发射线。这些谱线出现在ASTRO-H硬X射线成像仪获得的背景谱中,在其5-80 keV的观测能带内是不可忽略的。我们现在正在同时优化软X射线和硬X射线的主动屏蔽设计。作为第一步,我们利用BGO晶体作为默认材料,并使用X射线SOIPIX“XRPIX”从其测量Bi的L线和Ge的K线。

英文摘要:

Active shielding is an effective technique to reduce background signals in hard X-ray detectors and to enable observing darker sources with high sensitivity in space. Usually the main detector is covered with some shield detectors made of scintillator crystals such as BGO (Bi$_4$Ge$_3$O$_{12}$), and the background signals are filtered out using anti-coincidence among them. Japanese X-ray observing satellites "Suzaku" and "ASTRO-H" employed this technique in their hard X-ray instruments observing at > 10 keV. In the next generation X-ray satellites, such as the NGHXT proposal, a single hybrid detector is expected to cover both soft (1-10 keV) and hard (> 10 keV) X-rays for effectiveness. However, present active shielding is not optimized for the soft X-ray band, 1-10 keV. For example, Bi and Ge, which are contained in BGO, have their fluorescence emission lines around 10 keV. These lines appear in the background spectra obtained by ASTRO-H Hard X-ray Imager, which are non-negligible in its observation energy band of 5-80 keV. We are now optimizing the design of active shields for both soft and hard X-rays at the same time. As a first step, we utilized a BGO crystal as a default material, and measured the L lines of Bi and K lines of Ge from it using the X-ray SOIPIX, "XRPIX".

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