NICER instrument detector subsystem: description and performance
An instrument called Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) will be placed on-board the International 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 fo...
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| author | Prigozhin, Gregory Gendreau, Keith Doty, John P. Arzoumanian, Zaven Baumgartner, Wayne Scholze, Frank Laubis, Christian Krumrey, Michael Huber, Alan Remillard, Ronald A Malonis, Andrew C. Vezie, Michael L. Egan, Mark Villasenor, Jesus Noel Samonte Foster, Richard F. La Marr, Beverly J. |
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| author_facet | MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research Prigozhin, Gregory Gendreau, Keith Doty, John P. Arzoumanian, Zaven Baumgartner, Wayne Scholze, Frank Laubis, Christian Krumrey, Michael Huber, Alan Remillard, Ronald A Malonis, Andrew C. Vezie, Michael L. Egan, Mark Villasenor, Jesus Noel Samonte Foster, Richard F. La Marr, Beverly J. |
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| description | An instrument called Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) will be placed on-board the International 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. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1170242022-09-29T23:18:33Z NICER instrument detector subsystem: description and performance Prigozhin, Gregory Gendreau, Keith Doty, John P. Arzoumanian, Zaven Baumgartner, Wayne Scholze, Frank Laubis, Christian Krumrey, Michael Huber, Alan Remillard, Ronald A Malonis, Andrew C. Vezie, Michael L. Egan, Mark Villasenor, Jesus Noel Samonte Foster, Richard F. La Marr, Beverly J. MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research Foster, Richard F Remillard, Ronald A Malonis, Andrew C. La Marr, Beverly J Vezie, Michael L. Egan, Mark Villasenor, Jesus Noel Samonte An instrument called Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) will be placed on-board the International 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. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Contract NNG14PJ13C) 2018-07-20T14:27:15Z 2018-07-20T14:27:15Z 2016-07 2018-03-16T16:08:30Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117024 Prigozhin, Gregory, et al. "NICER Instrument Detector Subsystem: Description and Performance." Proceedings Volume 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 26 June - 1 July, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, edited by Jan-Willem A. den Herder et al., SPIE, 2016, p. 99051I. © 2016 SPIE. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2231718 Proceedings Volume 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf SPIE SPIE |
| spellingShingle | Prigozhin, Gregory Gendreau, Keith Doty, John P. Arzoumanian, Zaven Baumgartner, Wayne Scholze, Frank Laubis, Christian Krumrey, Michael Huber, Alan Remillard, Ronald A Malonis, Andrew C. Vezie, Michael L. Egan, Mark Villasenor, Jesus Noel Samonte Foster, Richard F. La Marr, Beverly J. NICER instrument detector subsystem: description and performance |
| title | NICER instrument detector subsystem: description and performance |
| title_full | NICER instrument detector subsystem: description and performance |
| title_fullStr | NICER instrument detector subsystem: description and performance |
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| title_short | NICER instrument detector subsystem: description and performance |
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