Micro-X Sounding Rocket: Transitioning from First Flight to a Dark Matter Configuration

Autor:	Adams, J. S., Anderson, A. J., Baker, R., Bandler, S. R., Bastidon, N., Castro, D., Danowski, M. E., Doriese, W. B., Eckart, M. E., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Goldfinger, D. C., Heine, S. N. T., Hilton, G. C., Hubbard, A. J. F., Kelley, R. L., Kilbourne, C. A., Manzagol-Harwood, R. E., McCammon, D., Okajima, T., Porter, F. S., Reintsema, C. D., Serlemitsos, P., Smith, S. J., Wikus, P.
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Experiment Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Zdroj:	J Low Temp Phys (2020)
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1007/s10909-019-02307-2
Popis:	The Micro-X sounding rocket flew for the first time on July 22, 2018, becoming the first program to fly Transition-Edge Sensors and multiplexing SQUID readout electronics in space. While a rocket pointing failure led to no time on-target, the success of the flight systems was demonstrated. The successful flight operation of the instrument puts the program in a position to modify the payload for indirect galactic dark matter searches. The payload modifications are motivated by the science requirements of this observation. Micro-X can achieve world-leading sensitivity in the keV regime with a single flight. Dark matter sensitivity projections have been updated to include recent observations and the expected sensitivity of Micro-X to these observed fluxes. If a signal is seen (as seen in the X-ray satellites), Micro-X can differentiate an atomic line from a dark matter signature. Comment: Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors (LTD18)
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09010 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv