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dc.contributor.authorRao, A.R.-
dc.contributor.authorAgrawal, P.C.-
dc.contributor.authorShah, M.R.-
dc.contributor.authorPaul, Biswajit-
dc.contributor.authorManchanda, R.K.-
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-14T10:05:06Z-
dc.date.available2012-07-14T10:05:06Z-
dc.date.issued1998-
dc.identifier.citationAdvances in Space Research, 1998, Vol. 21, p1025-1028en
dc.identifier.issn0273-1177-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/4916-
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dc.description.abstractWe have been carrying out a series of balloon flight experiments using a large area proportional counter based (xenon filled) hard X-ray telescope and have studied in detail the spectral and temporal characteristics of several cosmic hard X-ray sources. The detector system uses multi-cell multi-layer configuration and for background reduction passive shielding, active anti-coincidence on three sides of the detector and mutual anti-coincidence for the active cells are employed. Further, K-gating technique is used to improve the energy resolution and detection efficiency. We present the effectiveness of the various background rejection techniques using a Monte-Carlo simulation and critically evaluate the possible improvements in the background rejection.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevier B.V.en
dc.relation.urihttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998AdSpR..21.1025Ren
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0273-1177(97)01092-2en
dc.rights1998 Elsevier B.V.en
dc.titleBackground reduction in a balloon-borne hard x-ray telescopeen
dc.typeArticleen
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