We use existing light weight balloon facility of Indian Centre for Space Physics to detect the X-ray radiation from Crab pulsar with a phoswich detector. We present the design considerations and characterization of the detector used for this purpose. We model the background radiation in the detector environment at various altitudes and use this in spectral analysis. The background radiation level and limitations on the detector allowed us to calculate minimum detection limit for extrasolar radiation sources with our set up.

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用气象气球携带的 phoswich 探测器探测螃蟹辐射

我们使用印度空间物理中心现有的轻型气球设施，用一个 phoswich 探测器探测到 Crab 脉冲星的 X 射线辐射。我们介绍了用于此目的的检测器的设计注意事项和特性。我们对不同高度的探测器环境中的背景辐射进行建模，并将其用于光谱分析。探测器的背景辐射水平和限制使我们能够通过我们的设置计算太阳外辐射源的最小探测极限。