NICER Instrument Detector Subsystem: Description and Performance

被引：42

作者：

Prigozhin, Gregory ^{[1
]}

Gendreau, Keith

Doty, John P. ^{[2
]}

Foster, Richard ^{[1
]}

Remillard, Ronald ^{[1
]}

Malonis, Andrew ^{[1
]}

LaMarr, Beverly ^{[1
]}

Vezie, Michael ^{[1
]}

Egan, Mark ^{[1
]}

Villasenor, Joel ^{[1
]}

Arzoumanian, Zaven ^{[5
]}

Baumgartner, Wayne

Scholze, Frank ^{[3
]}

Laubis, Christian ^{[3
]}

Krumrey, Michael ^{[3
]}

Huber, Alan ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] MIT, Kavli Inst Astrophys, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[2] Noqsi Aerosp, Pine, CO USA

[3] Phys Tech Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany

[4] Amptek, Bedford, MA USA

[5] Univ Space Res Assoc, CRESST, Columbia, MD USA

来源：

SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2016: ULTRAVIOLET TO GAMMA RAY | 2016年 / 9905卷

关键词：

Silicon Drift Detectors; X-rays; spectroscopy; calibration; PTB;

D O I：

10.1117/12.2231718

中图分类号：

TH7 [仪器、仪表];

学科分类号：

0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;

摘要：

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 flux. 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 flight 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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