The calibration of the Solar-B x-ray optics

Mario L. Cosmo; Edward E. DeLuca; Leon Golub; Gerald K. Austin; Jon H. Chappell; Marco Barbera; Jay A. Bookbinder; Peter N. Cheimets; Jonathan Cirtain; William A. Podgorski; William Davis; Salvatore Varisco; Mark A. Weber

doi:10.1117/12.618822

24 August 2005 The calibration of the Solar-B x-ray optics

Mario L. Cosmo, Edward E. DeLuca, Leon Golub, Gerald K. Austin, Jon H. Chappell, Marco Barbera, Jay A. Bookbinder, Peter N. Cheimets, Jonathan Cirtain, William A. Podgorski, William Davis, Salvatore Varisco, Mark A. Weber

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Proceedings Volume 5900, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy II; 59000E (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.618822
Event: Optics and Photonics 2005, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

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The Solar-B X-ray telescope (XRT) is a grazing-incidence modified Wolter I X-ray telescope, of 35 cm inner diameter and 2.7 m focal length. XRT, designed for full sun imaging over the wavelength 6-60 Angstroms, will be the highest resolution solar X-Ray telescope ever flown. Images will be recorded by a 2048 X 2048 back-illuminated CCD with 13.5 μm pixels (1 arc-sec/pixel ) with full sun field of view. XRT will have a wide temperature sensitivity in order to observe and discriminate both the high (5-10 MK) and low temperature (1-5 MK) phenomena in the coronal plasma. This paper presents preliminary results of the XRT mirror calibration performed at the X-ray Calibration Facility, NASA-MSFC, Huntsville, Alabama during January and February 2005. We discuss the methods and the most significant results of the XRT mirror performance, namely: characteristics of the point response function (PSF), the encircled energy and the effective area. The mirror FWHM is 0.8" when corrected for 1-g, finite source distance, and CCD pixelization. With the above corrections the encircled energy at 27 μm and 1keV is 52%. The effective area is greater than 2cm² at 0.5keV and greater than 1.7cm² at 1.0keV.

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Mario L. Cosmo, Edward E. DeLuca, Leon Golub, Gerald K. Austin, Jon H. Chappell, Marco Barbera, Jay A. Bookbinder, Peter N. Cheimets, Jonathan Cirtain, William A. Podgorski, William Davis, Salvatore Varisco, and Mark A. Weber "The calibration of the Solar-B x-ray optics", Proc. SPIE 5900, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy II, 59000E (24 August 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.618822

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