Calibration program for the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) high-resolution camera

Kathryn A. Flanagan; Marco Barbera; Stephen S. Murray; Martin V. Zombeck

doi:10.1117/12.186816

16 September 1994 Calibration program for the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) high-resolution camera

Kathryn A. Flanagan, Marco Barbera, Stephen S. Murray, Martin V. Zombeck

Proceedings Volume 2280, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy V; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.186816
Event: SPIE's 1994 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1994, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The High Resolution Camera, or HRC, is a set of microchannel plate based detectors designed to fly aboard the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), a major NASA space observatory. It will undergo a series of calibration tests before launch in September 1998. The overall calibration is planned in three phases: tests performed before delivery, end-to-end testing at Marshall Space Flight Center, and post launch calibration observations. In this paper, we examine the planned calibration program for the HRC, focusing on laboratory and synchrotron tests to be made before delivery.

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Kathryn A. Flanagan, Marco Barbera, Stephen S. Murray, and Martin V. Zombeck "Calibration program for the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) high-resolution camera", Proc. SPIE 2280, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy V, (16 September 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.186816

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