Relative and (maybe) Absolute RHESSI Detector Efficiency: 2002-2008
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1st Author: | Jim McTiernan |
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Introduction
RHESSI has now been observing for nearly eight years. How has detector sensitivity changed since it was launched?
What about absolute sensitivity?
Looks like a blob for small flares, do the same plot for 6 to 20 keV RHESSI detector 1 count rate.
Restrict to the flares with greater than 1.0e45 emission measure. This leaves 2580 flares.
Plot 60 day averages as a function of time.
Show samples of flare ratio results for two different time ranges.
Facts about Relative and (maybe) Absolute RHESSI Detector Efficiency: 2002-2008RDF feed
RHESSI Nugget Date | 21 December 2009 + |
RHESSI Nugget First Author | Jim McTiernan + |
RHESSI Nugget Index | 117 + |