A sounding rocket payload for X-ray astronomy employing high-resolution microcalorimeters

Details A sounding rocket payload for X-ray astronomy employing high-resolution microcalorimeters A sounding rocket payload for X-ray astronomy employing high-resolution microcalorimeters

Feb 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996nimpa.370..266m&link_type=abstract

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, v. 370, p. 266-268.

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We have completed a sounding rocket payload that will use a 36 element array of microcalorimeters to obtain a high-resolution spectrum of the diffuse X-ray background between 0.1 and 1 keV. This experiment uses only mechanical collimation of the incoming X-rays, but the cryostat and detector assembly have been designed to be placed at the focus of a conical foil imaging mirror which will be employed on subsequent flights to do spatially resolved spectroscopy of supernova remnants and other extended objects. The detector system is a monolithic array of silicon calorimeters with ion-implanted thermometers and HgTe X-ray absorbers. The 1 mm2 pixels achieve a resolution of about 8 eV FWHM operating at 60 mK.

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