NICER instrument detector subsystem: description and performance
| Autor: | Alan Huber, John P. Doty, Gregory Y. Prigozhin, Keith C. Gendreau, Michael Krumrey, Frank Scholze, Christian Laubis, Ronald A. Remillard, Zaven Arzoumanian, W. H. Baumgartner, Beverly LaMarr, Michael Vezie, Mark Egan, Andrew Malonis, J. Villasenor, R. Foster |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Physics
Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors business.industry Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Detector X-ray detector Synchrotron radiation 01 natural sciences 010309 optics Cardinal point Optics 0103 physical sciences Systems architecture Calibration Electronics business 010303 astronomy & astrophysics |
| Zdroj: | SPIE Proceedings. |
| ISSN: | 0277-786X |
| Popis: | An instrument called Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) will be placed on-board the Inter- national Space Station in 2017. It is designed to detect soft X-ray emission from compact sources and to provide both spectral and high resolution timing information about the incoming ux. The focal plane is populated with 56 customized Silicon Drift Detectors. The paper describes the detector system architecture, the electronics and presents the results of the laboratory testing of both ight and engineering units, as well as some of the calibration results obtained with synchrotron radiation in the laboratory of PTB at BESSY II. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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