Calibration of the microcalorimeter spectrometer on-board the Hitomi (Astro-H) observatory (invited)

Eckart, Megan E.; Boyce, K. R.; Brown, G. V.; Chiao, M. P.; Fujimoto, R.; Haas, D.; den Herder, J. -W.; Ishisaki, Y.; Kelley, R. L.; Kilbourne, C. A.; Leutenegger, M. A.; McCammon, D.; Mitsuda, K.; Porter, F. S.; Sawada, M.; Sneiderman, G. A.; Szymkowiak, A. E.; Takei, Y.; Tashiro, M.; Tsujimoto, M.; de Vries, C. P.; Watanabe, T.; Yamada, S.; Yamasaki, N. Y.

doi:10.1063/1.4961075

Calibration of the microcalorimeter spectrometer on-board the Hitomi (Astro-H) observatory (invited)

Journal Article · Thu Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Review of Scientific Instruments

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4961075· OSTI ID:1354288

Eckart, Megan E. ^[1]; ^[1]; Brown, G. V. ^[2]; Chiao, M. P. ^[3]; Fujimoto, R. ^[4]; Haas, D. ^[5]; den Herder, J. -W. ^[5]; Ishisaki, Y. ^[6]; Kelley, R. L. ^[1]; ^[1]; Leutenegger, M. A. ^[3]; McCammon, D. ^[7]; Mitsuda, K. ^[8]; Porter, F. S. ^[1]; Sawada, M. ^[9]; Sneiderman, G. A. ^[1]; Szymkowiak, A. E. ^[10]; Takei, Y. ^[8]; Tashiro, M. ^[11]; ^[8] more »

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States); CRESST/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD (United States)
Kanazawa Univ., Ishikawa (Japan)
SRON Netherlands Inst. for Space Research, Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Tokyo (Japan)
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Inst. of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa (Japan)
Aoyama Gakuin Univ., Kanagawa (Japan)
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
Saitama Univ., Saitama (Japan)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States); CRESST/Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)

The Hitomi Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS) was a pioneering non-dispersive imaging x-ray spectrometer with 5 eV FWHM energy resolution, consisting of an array of 36 silicon-thermistor microcalorimeters at the focus of a high-throughput soft x-ray telescope. Here, the instrument enabled astrophysical plasma diagnostics in the 0.3–12 keV band. We introduce the SXS calibration strategy and corresponding ground calibration measurements that took place from 2012–2015, including both the characterization of the microcalorimeter array and measurements of the x-ray transmission of optical blocking filters.

Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344; SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1354288

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1840142

Report Number(s):: BNL--112804-2016-JA; LLNL-JRNL--756570

Journal Information:: Review of Scientific Instruments, Journal Name: Review of Scientific Instruments Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 87; ISSN 0034-6748; ISSN RSINAK

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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