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

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

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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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Lockard, T. E. ^[1]; Magee, E. W. ^[1]; Layne, D. A. ^[1]; Leutenegger, M. A. ^[2];

^[3]; Hell, N. ^[1]; Brown, G. V. ^[1];

^[1]

Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States); Univ. of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (United States)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)

Publication Date:: 2018-10-01

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. 
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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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