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Calibration of the instrumental response of Insight-HXMT/HE CsI detectors for gamma-ray monitoring

Authors :
C. Cai
Zheng-Wei Li
Jin-Yuan Liao
Xiaobo Li
Xufang Li
Gang Li
Shuang-Nan Zhang
Yue Zhu
C. X. Liu
Cheng-Kui Li
Shu Zhang
Shaolin Xiong
Juan Zhang
Qi-Bin Yi
Shuo Xiao
Qi Luo
Yue Huang
Yifei Zhang
Ming-Yu Ge
Yupeng Xu
Source :
Journal of High Energy Astrophysics. 27:1-13
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2020.

Abstract

The CsI detectors of the High Energy X-ray Telescope of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT/CsI) can be used for gamma-ray all sky monitoring and searching for the electromagnetic counterpart of gravitational wave source. The instrumental responses are mainly obtained by Monte Carlo simulation with the Geant4 tool and the mass model of both the satellite and all the payloads, which is updated and tested with the Crab pulse emission in various incident directions. Both the Energy-Channel relationship and the energy resolution are calibrated in two working modes (Normal-Gain mode & Low-Gain Mode) with the different detection energy ranges. The simulative spectral analyses show that HXMT/CsI can constrain the spectral parameters much better in the high energy band than that in the low energy band. The joint spectral analyses are performed to ten bright GRBs observed simultaneously with HXMT/CsI and other instruments (Fermi/GBM, Swift/BAT, Konus-Wind), and the results show that the GRB flux given by HXMT/CsI is systematically higher by 7.0 ± 8.8 % than those given by the other instruments. The HXMT/CsI-Fermi/GBM joint fittings also show that the high energy spectral parameter can be constrained much better as the HXMT/CsI data are used in the joint fittings.

Details

ISSN :
22144048
Volume :
27
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Journal of High Energy Astrophysics
Accession number :
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