Ginga Instruments
Scientific instrumentation of GINGA consists of the Large Area Counter (LAC), the All Sky Monitor (ASM), and the Gamma-ray Burst Detector (GBD).
The LAC, the main detector of GINGA, covers the energy range of 2-70 keV
with an effective area of 4000 cm2. More details about the satellite
and the instruments can be found at ISAS
and NASA/GSFC.
For the LAC, please refer to
Turner et al. (1989), PASJ 41, 345
and
Hayashida et al. (1989) PASJ 41, 373.
The ASM experiment consists of two identical gas proportional counters
operating in the energy range between 1-20 keV.
Each detector is composed of three chambers that operate independently and provide each other
with mutual anti-coincidence shielding.
The instrument is subtended by six different collimators with a field of view of roughly 1 deg x 45 deg
and covers about the 70% of the sky when the satellite rotates around the Z-axis.
Each of the ASM chamber has a maximum effective area of about 70 cm2.
For more ditails on the ASM, please see
Tsunemi et al. (1989) PASJ, 41, 291.
For the explanation of the GBD, please see Murakami et al. (1989), PASJ, 41, 405. As of 2019, GBD high-level products are not archived.