A mercuric detector system for X-ray Astronomy. II, Results from flight tests of a balloon borne instrument / J.V. Vallerga, R.K. Vanderspek, and G.R. Ricker.

"To establish the expected sensitivity of a new hard X-ray telescope design, an experiment was conducted to measure the background counting rate at balloon altitudes (40 km) of mercuric iodide, a room temperature solid state X-ray detector. The prototype detector consisted of two thin mercuric...

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Main Authors:	Vallerga, John Vincent (Author), Vanderspek, R. K. (Roland K.) (Author), Ricker, G. R. (George R.) (Author)
Corporate Author:	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (sponsoring body.)
Format:	Government Document Microfilm Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : [Washington, District of Columbia] : Center for Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; [National Aeronautics and Space Administration], [1982]
Series:	NASA contractor report ; NASA CR-175329.
Subjects:	X-ray astronomy. X-ray telescopes. Balloon-borne instruments. Bismuth. Iodides. Monte Carlo method. Scintillation counters. X ray astronomy.