Design, implementation, and performance of the Astro-H soft x-ray spectrometer aperture assembly and blocking filters

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作者
Kilbourne, Caroline A. [1 ]
Adams, Joseph S. [1 ,2 ]
Arsenovic, Petar [1 ]
Ayers, Travis [3 ]
Chiao, Meng P. [1 ,2 ]
DiPirro, Michael J. [1 ]
Eckart, Megan E. [1 ]
Fujimoto, Ryuichi
Kazeva, John D. [1 ,4 ]
Kripps, Kari L.
Lairson, Bruce M. [3 ]
Leutenegger, Maurice A. [1 ,2 ]
Lopez, Heidi C.
McCammon, Dan [5 ]
McGuinness, Daniel S. [1 ]
Mitsuda, Kazuhisa [6 ]
Moseley, Samuel J. [1 ,7 ]
Porter, F. Scott [1 ]
Schweiss, Andrea N. [1 ]
Takei, Yoh
Thorpe, Rosemary Schmidt [1 ,8 ]
Watanabe, Tomomi [1 ,9 ]
Yamasaki, Noriko Y. [6 ]
Yoshida, Seiji [10 ]
机构
[1] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD USA
[2] Univ Maryland, Ctr Space Sci & Technol, Baltimore, MD 21201 USA
[3] Luxel Corp, Friday Harbor, WA USA
[4] Kanazawa Univ, Fac Math & Phys, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
[5] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, 1150 Univ Ave, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[6] ISAS JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
[7] ADNET Syst Inc, Bethesda, MD USA
[8] Bastion Technol Inc, Houston, TX USA
[9] Univ Maryland, Dept Astron, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[10] Sumitomo Heavy Ind Ltd, Niihama, Ehime, Japan
关键词
x-ray calorimeter; microcalorimeter; radiation-blocking filters; aperture cylinder; Astro-H; Hitomi; DETECTOR; SXS; SYSTEM; FLIGHT;
D O I
10.1117/1.JATIS.4.1.011215
中图分类号
V [航空、航天];
学科分类号
08 ; 0825 ;
摘要
The calorimeter array of the JAXA Astro-H (renamed Hitomi) soft x-ray spectrometer (SXS) was designed to provide unprecedented spectral resolution of spatially extended cosmic x-ray sources and of all cosmic x-ray sources in the Fe-K band around 6 keV. The properties that made the SXS array a powerful x-ray spectrometer also made it sensitive to photons from the entire electromagnetic band as well as particles. If characterized as a bolometer, it would have had a noise equivalent power of <4 x 10(-18) W/(Hz)(0.5). Thus, it was imperative to shield the detector from thermal radiation from the instrument and optical and UV photons from the sky. In addition, it was necessary to shield the coldest stages of the instrument from the thermal radiation emanating from the warmer stages. These needs were addressed by a series of five thin-film radiation-blocking filters, anchored to the nested temperature stages, that blocked long-wavelength radiation while minimizing x-ray attenuation. The aperture assembly was a system of barriers, baffles, filter carriers, and filter mounts that supported the filters and inhibited their potential contamination. The three outer filters also had been equipped with thermometers and heaters for decontamination. We present the requirements, design, implementation, and performance of the SXS aperture assembly and blocking filters. (c) The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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