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Measurements of Crab nebula flux and spectrum

LS1 and LS3 Crab Nebula count fluxes and PHA spectra were obtained by exploiting the occultation by the Earth (as described in section 4.4) when the source was pointed by one of the WFC and thus at the center of the detectors fields of view. At the time of observations (autumn 1996), the LLT threshold was set to step 1, corresponding to a calibrated value of 20 keV, thus allowing the verification of the GRBM response functions down to low-energies.
The Crab Nebula measurements results confirm the substantially good calibration of LS1 and LS3 near-axis responses in the ratemeters and spectra energy bands.



 

Lorenzo Amati
8/30/1999