MICRO-X, THE HIGH RESOLUTION SOUNDING ROCKET X-RAY IMAGING SPECTROMETER

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作者：

Wikus, P. ^{[1
]}

Adams, J. S. ^{[2
]}

Baker, R. ^{[2
]}

Bandler, S. R. ^{[2
]}

DeLaney, T. A. ^{[1
]}

Dewey, D. ^{[1
]}

Doriese, W. B. ^{[3
]}

Eckart, M. E. ^{[2
]}

Figueroa-Feliciano, E. ^{[1
]}

Galeazzi, M. ^{[4
]}

Goeke, R. ^{[1
]}

Hamersma, R. ^{[6
]}

Hilton, G. ^{[3
]}

Hwang, U. ^{[2
]}

Irwin, K. D. ^{[3
]}

Kelley, R. L. ^{[2
]}

Kilbourne, C. A. ^{[2
]}

Leman, S. W. ^{[1
]}

McCammon, D. ^{[5
]}

Okajima, T. ^{[2
]}

Porter, F. S. ^{[2
]}

Reintsema, C. D. ^{[3
]}

Rutherford, J. M. ^{[1
]}

Saab, T. ^{[6
]}

Serlemitsos, P. ^{[2
]}

Soong, Y. ^{[2
]}

Trowbridge, S. N. ^{[1
]}

机构：

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

[2] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[3] Natl Inst Stand & Technol, Gaithersburg, MD USA

[4] Univ Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146 USA

[5] Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA

[6] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610 USA

来源：

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 19TH ESA SYMPOSIUM ON EUROPEAN ROCKET AND BALLOON PROGRAMMES AND RELATED RESEARCH | 2009年 / 671卷

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V [航空、航天];

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08 ; 0825 ;

摘要：

The NASA-funded Micro-X instrument is a rocket - borne X-ray imaging spectrometer operating in the energy range from 0.3 to 2.5 keV. A Transition-Edge-Sensor (TES) microcalorimeter array, cooled to a temperature of 50 mK, is used to obtain images and spectra of astrophysical objects with an energy resolution of 2-4 eV at 3 keV, which constitutes an improvement of more than an order of magnitude over currently operating non-dispersive spectrometers on X-ray space telescopes. A thin-foil conical Wolter mirror with an effective collecting area of 200 cm(2) at 1 keV and a focal length of 2165 mm focuses the X-rays from the observation target onto the detector array. The instrument has a field of view (FOV) of 11.8 arc min. We describe the design of the Micro-X instrument and its planned flights, and report the current status of hardware development and testing.

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页码：573 / 577

页数：5

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