1. JEM-X: the x-ray monitor on INTEGRAL
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Marco Feroci, Josef Polny, A. A. Zdziarski, P. B. Mogensen, V. Collado, I. L. Rasmussen, Jose-Luis Requena, G. Loffredo, Fernando Cerdeira Pérez, Roland Svensson, Herbert W. Schnopper, Osmi Vilhu, J. Peris, K. Omoe, J. M. Rodrigo, Niels J. Westergaard, S. M. Pedersen, A. J. Castro-Tirado, K. Harpo Andersen, Carl Budtz-Jørgensen, C. A. Oxborrow, Veikko J. Kamarainen, Filippo Frontera, Carlo Pelliciari, S. Laursen, Jérôme Chenevez, Rene Engel Kristansen, Allan Hornstrup, V. Carassiti, Alda Rubini, S. Larsson, M. Morawski, Guido Zavattini, P. A. Jensen, E. Morelli, Victor Reglero, T. Andersson, Niels Lund, Enrico Costa, S. Brandt, Juhani Huovelin, G. Juchnikowski, and Alfredo Morbidini
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Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,micro strip detector ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Field of view ,X-ray telescope ,01 natural sciences ,law.invention ,Jem-X ,INTEGRAL ,X-ray astronimy ,Telescope ,Optics ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,Angular resolution ,Coded aperture ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Image resolution ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,business.industry ,Detector ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Gamma ray ,business - Abstract
The INTEGRAL X-ray monitor, JEM-X, (together with the two gamma ray instruments, SPI and IBIS) provides simultaneous imaging with arcminute angular resolution in the 3-35 keV band. The good angular resolution and low energy response of JEM-X plays an important role in the detection and identification of gamma ray sources as well as in the analysis and scientific interpretation of the combined X-ray and gamma ray data. JEM-X is a coded aperture X-ray telescope consisting of two identical detectors. Each detector has a sensitive area of 500 cm2, and views the sky through its own coded aperture mask. The coded masks are located 3.4 m above the detector windows. The detector field of view is constrained by X-ray collimators (6.6° FOV, FWHM).
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- 2004
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