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Title: The Warm Electron Beam Ion Trap (WEBIT): An instrument for ground calibration of space-borne x-ray spectrometers

Abstract

The warm electron beam ion trap (WEBIT) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is being developed as a pre-launch, ground calibration source for space-borne, high-throughput, high-resolution x-ray spectrometers, such as the x-ray imaging and spectroscopy mission Resolve quantum calorimeter. Historically, calibration sources for calorimeter spectrometers have relied on characteristic line emission from x-ray tubes, fluorescing metals, and radioactive sources. The WEBIT, by contrast, relies on emission from x-ray transitions in highly charged ions, for example, hydrogen-like and helium-like ions, whose energies are well known and whose line shapes are relatively simple. The WEBIT can create astrophysically relevant ions whose x-ray emission falls in the 0.3-12 keV science bandpass of Resolve and has a portable design advantageous for a calibration source. The WEBIT will be used to help calibrate Resolve’s instrumental line shape and gain scale as a function of various operational parameters during both detector subsystem level testing and instrumental level testing.

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  1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  2. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States); Univ. of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (United States)
  3. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1545512
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Review of Scientific Instruments
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 89; Journal Issue: 10; Conference: 22. Tropical Conference on High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics , San Diego, CA (United States), Apr. 2018; Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION

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Lockard, T. E., Magee, E. W., Layne, D. A., Leutenegger, M. A., Eckart, M. E., Hell, N., Brown, G. V., and Beiersdorfer, P. The Warm Electron Beam Ion Trap (WEBIT): An instrument for ground calibration of space-borne x-ray spectrometers. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1063/1.5039338.
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Lockard, T. E., Magee, E. W., Layne, D. A., Leutenegger, M. A., Eckart, M. E., Hell, N., Brown, G. V., & Beiersdorfer, P. The Warm Electron Beam Ion Trap (WEBIT): An instrument for ground calibration of space-borne x-ray spectrometers. United States. doi:10.1063/1.5039338.
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Lockard, T. E., Magee, E. W., Layne, D. A., Leutenegger, M. A., Eckart, M. E., Hell, N., Brown, G. V., and Beiersdorfer, P. Mon . "The Warm Electron Beam Ion Trap (WEBIT): An instrument for ground calibration of space-borne x-ray spectrometers". United States. doi:10.1063/1.5039338. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1545512.
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@article{osti_1545512,
title = {The Warm Electron Beam Ion Trap (WEBIT): An instrument for ground calibration of space-borne x-ray spectrometers},
author = {Lockard, T. E. and Magee, E. W. and Layne, D. A. and Leutenegger, M. A. and Eckart, M. E. and Hell, N. and Brown, G. V. and Beiersdorfer, P.},
abstractNote = {The warm electron beam ion trap (WEBIT) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is being developed as a pre-launch, ground calibration source for space-borne, high-throughput, high-resolution x-ray spectrometers, such as the x-ray imaging and spectroscopy mission Resolve quantum calorimeter. Historically, calibration sources for calorimeter spectrometers have relied on characteristic line emission from x-ray tubes, fluorescing metals, and radioactive sources. The WEBIT, by contrast, relies on emission from x-ray transitions in highly charged ions, for example, hydrogen-like and helium-like ions, whose energies are well known and whose line shapes are relatively simple. The WEBIT can create astrophysically relevant ions whose x-ray emission falls in the 0.3-12 keV science bandpass of Resolve and has a portable design advantageous for a calibration source. The WEBIT will be used to help calibrate Resolve’s instrumental line shape and gain scale as a function of various operational parameters during both detector subsystem level testing and instrumental level testing.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5039338},
journal = {Review of Scientific Instruments},
number = 10,
volume = 89,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {10}
}
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