Status of the micro-X sounding rocket x-ray spectrometer

Status of the micro-X sounding rocket x-ray spectrometer

Micro-X is a sounding rocket borne X-ray telescope that utilizes transition edge sensors to perform imaging spectroscopy with a high level of energy resolution. Its 2.1m focal length X-ray optic has an effective area of 300 cm 2 , a field of view of 11.8 arcmin, and a bandpass of 0.1-2.5 keV. The de...

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Main Authors: Doriese, W. B., Eckart, M. E., Hilton, G. C., Hubbard, A. J. F., Kelley, R. L., Kilbourne, C. A., McCammon, D., Okajima, T., Porter, F. S., Reintsema, C. D., Serlemitsos, P., Smith, S. J., Wikus, P., Goldfinger, David C., Adams, Joseph S, Baker, Robert P, Bandler, Suri C., Danowski, Meredith E, Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali, Heine, Sarah N.T., Wikus, Patrick
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory
Format: Article
Published: SPIE, the International Society of Optical Engineering 2018
Subjects:
Microcalorimeter, Sounding Rocket, Transition Edge Sensors, Micro-X, X-ray astronomy, Cryogenics
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116367
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5268-8423
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9285-5556
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4081-6322

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