In-flight performance and calibration of the Chandra high resolution camera spectroscopic readout (HRC-S)

被引:5
作者
Kraft, RP [1 ]
Chappell, JH [1 ]
Kenter, AT [1 ]
Meehan, GR [1 ]
Murray, SS [1 ]
Zombeck, MV [1 ]
Donnelly, RH [1 ]
Drake, JJ [1 ]
Johnson, CO [1 ]
Juda, M [1 ]
Patnaude, D [1 ]
Pease, DO [1 ]
Ratzlaff, PW [1 ]
Wargelin, BJ [1 ]
Zhao, P [1 ]
Austin, GK [1 ]
Fraser, GW [1 ]
Pearson, JF [1 ]
Lees, JE [1 ]
Brunton, AN [1 ]
Barbera, M [1 ]
Collura, A [1 ]
Serio, S [1 ]
机构
[1] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
来源
X-RAY OPTICS, INSTRUMENTS, AND MISSIONS III | 2000年 / 4012卷
关键词
x-ray imaging; x-ray spectroscopy; Chandra; AXAF; HRC; High Resolution Camera;
D O I
10.1117/12.391586
中图分类号
V [航空、航天];
学科分类号
08 ; 0825 ;
摘要
The High Resolution Camera (HRC) is one of two focal plane instruments on the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) which was successfully launched on July 23, 1999. The Chandra X-ray Observatory was designed to perform high resolution spectroscopy and imaging in the X-ray band of 0.07 to 10 keV. The HRC instrument consists of two detectors, HRC-I for imaging and HRC-S for spectroscopy. Each HRC detector consists of a thin aluminized polyimide blocking filter, a chevron pair of microchannel plates (MCPs) and a crossed grid charge readout. The HRC-I is an similar to 100 x 100 mm detector optimized for high resolution imaging and timing, the HRC-S is an similar to 20 x 300 mm detector optimized to function as the readout for the Low Energy Transmission Grating (LETG). In this paper we discuss the in-flight performance of the HRC-S, and present preliminary analysis of flight calibration data and compare it with the results of the ground calibration and pre-flight predictions. In particular we will compare ground data and in-flight data on detector background, quantum efficiency, spatial resolution, pulse height resolution, and point spread response function.
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页码:493 / 517
页数:25
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