The High Energy Detector of Simbol-X

A. Meuris (1) , O. Limousin (2) , F. Lugiez (3) , O. Gevin , C. Blondel (4) , I. Le Mer , F. Pinsard , C. Cara (3) , A. Goetschy , J. Martignac (1) , G. Tauzin , S. Hervé (1) , Philippe Laurent (5) , R. Chipaux (1) , Y. Rio (1) , J. Fontignie (1) , B. Horeau (4) , M. Authier , P. Ferrando (5)

1 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
2 AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112) - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
3 DAPNIA - Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée
4 DAP - Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP)
5 APC - AHE - APC - Astrophysique des Hautes Energies

The High Energy Detector (HED) is one of the three detection units on board the Simbol-X detector spacecraft. It is placed below the Low Energy Detector so as to collect focused photons in the energy range from 8 to 80 keV. It consists of a mosaic of 64 independent cameras, divided in 8 sectors. Each elementary detection unit, called Caliste, is the hybridization of a 256-pixel Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) detector with full custom front-end electronics into a unique component. The status of the HED design will be reported. The promising results obtained from the first micro-camera prototypes called Caliste 64 and Caliste 256 will be presented to illustrate the expected performance of the instrument.

Mots clés: X- and gamma-ray telescopes and instrumentation; Spectroscopy and spectrophotometry; Charge-coupled devices; image detectors; and IR detector arrays; Artificial Earth satellites

Domaines: Phénomènes cosmiques de haute energie [astro-ph.HE]; Phénomènes cosmiques de haute energie [astro-ph.HE]

A. Meuris, O. Limousin, F. Lugiez, O. Gevin, C. Blondel, et al.. The High Energy Detector of Simbol-X. 2nd International Simbol-X Symposium, Dec 2008, Paris, France. pp.25-30, ⟨10.1063/1.3149428⟩. ⟨hal-00715365⟩