KONUS

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  • KONUS
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  • The Gamma Ray Burst Studies investigation on WIND will perform gamma-ray burst studies similar to the TGRS studies. It will perform event detection and will measure time history and energy spectra. Although KONUS has a lower resolution than TGRS, it has broader area coverage to complement that of TGRS so that, when their data are combined, they provide coverage of the full sky. KONUS is the first Russian instrument to fly on an American satellite since civil space cooperation between the U.S. and Russia was resumed in 1987. The Konus instrument consists of two Russian sensors mounted on the top and bottom of the spacecraft aligned with the spin axis, a U.S. interface box, and a Russian electronics package mounted in the spacecraft body. The sensors, copies of ones successfully flown on the Soviet COSMOS, VENERA and MIR missions, are identical and interchangeable Nal scintillation crystal detectors of 200 cm2 area, shielded by Pb/Sn. The design and location of the two sensors ensure practically isotropic angular sensitivity. The relative count rates recorded by the two detectors can provide a burst source locus to within a few degrees relative to the spin axis. On-board analysis of background and burst events is performed by four pulse height analyzers, four time history analyzers, two high resolution time history analyzers and a background measurement system. See http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/wind.shtml Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: KONUS Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: Solar/Space Observing Instruments Instrument_Class: X-Ray/Gamma Ray Detectors Short_Name: KONUS Long_Name: Gamma Ray Burst Detector End_Group Group: Associated_Platforms Short_Name: WIND End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Gamma Ray Number_Channels: 2 Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 10 KeV - 10 MeV End_Group Online_Resource: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1994-071A&ex=9 Online_Resource: http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/wind/wind_inst.html#KONUS Group: Instrument_Logistics Instrument_Start_Date: 1994-11-01 Instrument_Owner: NASA Instrument_Owner: Russian Space Agency End_Group End_Group
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  • Gamma Ray Burst Detector
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