A Normal Incidence X-ray Telescope (NIXT) sounding rocket payload

Details A Normal Incidence X-ray Telescope (NIXT) sounding rocket payload A Normal Incidence X-ray Telescope (NIXT) sounding rocket payload

May 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989sao..reptq....g&link_type=abstract

Final Report, 1 Nov. 1982 - 31 Jan. 1989 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA.

Computer Science

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Cameras, Image Converters, Imaging Techniques, Radiation Detectors, Rocket-Borne Photography, X Ray Telescopes, Charge Coupled Devices, Display Devices, Flight Tests, Image Intensifiers, Image Processing, Memory (Computers), Payloads, Phosphors, Signal Processing, Sounding Rockets, Vidicons, X Ray Astronomy

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Work on the High Resolution X-ray (HRX) Detector Program is described. In the laboratory and flight programs, multiple copies of a general purpose set of electronics which control the camera, signal processing and data acquisition, were constructed. A typical system consists of a phosphor convertor, image intensifier, a fiber optics coupler, a charge coupled device (CCD) readout, and a set of camera, signal processing and memory electronics. An initial rocket detector prototype camera was tested in flight and performed perfectly. An advanced prototype detector system was incorporated on another rocket flight, in which a high resolution heterojunction vidicon tube was used as the readout device for the H(alpha) telescope. The camera electronics for this tube were built in-house and included in the flight electronics. Performance of this detector system was 100 percent satisfactory. The laboratory X-ray system for operation on the ground is also described.

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