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On-ground calibrations of the GRID-02 gamma-ray detector

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2021-12-21 v2 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

The Gamma-Ray Integrated Detectors (GRID) are a space project to monitor the transient gamma-ray sky in the multi-messenger astronomy era using multiple detectors on-board CubeSats. The second GRID detector, GRID-02, was launched in 2020. The performance of the detector, including the energy response, effective area, angular response, and temperature-bias dependence, is calibrated in the laboratory and presented here. These measurements are compared with particle tracing simulations and validate the Geant4 model that will be used for generating detector responses.

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@article{arxiv.2109.00669,
  title  = {On-ground calibrations of the GRID-02 gamma-ray detector},
  author = {Huaizhong Gao and Dongxin Yang and Jiaxing Wen and Xutao Zheng and Ming Zeng and Jirong Cang and Weihe Zeng and Xiaofan Pan and Qimin Zhou and Yihui Liu and Hua Feng and Binbin Zhang and Zhi Zeng and Yang Tian and GRID Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.00669},
  year   = {2021}
}

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final manuscript, 15 pages, 12 figures, published on Exp. Astron