Indian Payloads (RT-2 Experiment) Onboard CORONAS-PHOTON Mission
| Autor: | Nandi, Anuj, Rao, A. R., Chakrabarti, Sandip K., Malkar, J. P., Sreekumar, S., Debnath, Dipak, Hingar, M. K., Kotoch, Tilak, Kotovk, Yuri, Arkhangelskiy, Andrey |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | RT-2 Experiment (RT - Roentgen Telescope) is a low energy gamma-ray instrument which is designed and developed as a part of Indo-Russian collaborative project of CORONAS-PHOTON Mission to study the Solar flares in wide energy band of electromagnetic spectrum ranging from UV to high-energy gamma-rays (~2000 MeV). RT-2 instruments will cover the energy range of 15 keV to 150 keV extendable up to ~1 MeV. It consists of three detectors (two Phoswich detectors, namely, RT-2/S, RT-2/G and one solid-state imaging detector RT-2/CZT) and one processing electronic device (RT-2/E). Both Phoswich detectors will have time resolved spectrum, whereas the solid-state imaging detector will have high resolved image of the solar flares in hard X-rays. We have used Co-57 (122 keV) radio-active source for onboard calibration of all three detectors. In this paper, we briefly discuss the in-flight performance of RT-2 instruments and present initial flight data from the instruments. This mission was launched into polar LEO (Low Earth Orbit) (~550 km) on 30th January 2009 from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia. Comment: IEEE style, 4 pages with 8 figures, Conference proceedings of '1st International Conference of Space Technology (ICST-2009)' held at Thessaloniki, Greece from 24-26 August 2009, G. Lampropoulos and M. Petrou (Eds.) |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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