A sounding rocket payload for X-ray astronomy employing high-resolution microcalorimeters

Autor:	Andrew E. Szymkowiak, Samuel H. Moseley, S. Deiker, R. Almy, F.J Marshall, D. McCammon, R. L. Kelley, Caroline Kilbourn Stahle, Jeffrey P. Morgenthaler
Rok vydání:	1996
Předmět:	Cryostat Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics X-ray astronomy Sounding rocket Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors Payload business.industry Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Detector Resolution (electron density) Collimated light Optics Spectroscopy business Instrumentation
Zdroj:	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 370:266-268
ISSN:	0168-9002
DOI:	10.1016/0168-9002(95)01106-4
Popis:	We have completed a sounding rocket payload that will use a 36 element array of microcalorimeters to obtain a high-resolution spectrum of the diffuse X-ray background between 0.1 and 1 keV. This experiment uses only mechanical collimation of the incoming X-rays, but the cryostat and detector assembly have been designed to be placed at the focus of a conical foil imaging mirror which will be employed on subsequent flights to do spatially resolved spectroscopy of supernova remnants and other extended objects. The detector system is a monolithic array of silicon calorimeters with ion-implanted thermometers and HgTe X-ray absorbers. The 1 mm2 pixels achieve a resolution of about 8 eV FWHM operating at 60 mK.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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