NSSDCA ID: 1996-027A-04
Mission Name: SAXThis experiment consists of an array of three identical wide-field camera (WFC) units. Each wide-field camera or transform camera unit consists of a position-sensitive multiwire proportional counter coupled with a pseudo-random coded mask. Source X-ray photons in the range 2-30 keV will be selectively stopped by the mask frame producing the shadow of the mask pattern on the position-sensitive detector. Correlation and deconvolution analyses are used to reconstruct the image of the sky field and the spectra of the X-ray sources observed. Each WFC unit has a FWHM of 27 deg by 27 deg, a geometrical area of 600 sq cm, an energy resolution of 20% at 6 keV, and an angular resolution of 5 arc-min. By simultaneously imaging with all three cameras, 7% of the sky can be covered. The sensitivity of each WFC unit is 1.7E(-11) erg/(sq cm-s) in 1E4 s in the 2-6 keV waveband.
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