The AXAF High Resolution Camera (HRC): The challenge of calibration

被引：12

作者：

Murray, SS ^{[1
]}

Chappell, JH ^{[1
]}

Kenter, AT ^{[1
]}

Kraft, RP ^{[1
]}

Meehan, GR ^{[1
]}

Zombeck, MV ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Smithsonian Inst Astrophys Observ, High Energy Astrophys Div, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

来源：

SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTS V, PTS 1-2 | 1998年 / 3356卷

关键词：

x-ray detectors; calibration; flat field; microchannel plate High Resolution Camera; AXAF;

D O I：

10.1117/12.324500

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The High Resolution Camera (HRC) is a Microchannel Plate based, photon counting, imaging detector for the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) that will be placed in a high earth orbit scheduled for launch in December, 1998. An end-to-end calibration of the HRC and the AXAF High Resolution Mirror Assembly (HRMA) was carried out at the Marshall Space Flight Center's X-Ray Calibration Facility (XRCF). This activity was preceded by various subsystems level calibrations of the detector components, but only through complete end-to-end testing was it possible to fully study the instrument and identify areas for improvement. As a result, several modifications were made to the HRC. These were followed by a series of flat field calibrations used to "correct" the end-to-end results for flight.

引用

页码：974 / 984

页数：11