Harrison, Fiona A. and Christensen, Finn E. and Craig, William and Hailey, Charles and Baumgartner, Wayne and Chen, C. M. H. and Chonko, James and Cook, W. Rick and Koglin, Jason and Madsen, Kristin-Kruse and Pivavoroff, Michael and Boggs, Steven and Smith, David (2005) Development of the HEFT and NuSTAR focusing telescopes. Experimental Astronomy, 20 (1-3). pp. 131-137. ISSN 0922-6435. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20110809-093107431
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Abstract
Hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray astrophysics is on the verge of a major advance with the practical realization of technologies capable of efficiently focusing X-rays above 10 keV. Hard X-ray focusing telescopes can achieve orders of magnitude improvements in sensitivity compared to the instruments based on coded apertures and collimated detectors that have traditionally been employed in this energy band. Compact focal planes enable high-performance detectors with good spectral resolution to be employed in efficient, low-background configurations. We have developed multilayer coated grazing incidence optics and solid state Cadmium Zinc Telluride focal plane systems for the High Energy Focusing Telescope (HEFT) balloon-borne experiment, and for the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) Small Explorer satellite. In this paper we describe the technologies, telescope designs, and performance of both experiments.
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| Additional Information: | © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Received: 5 July 2006; Accepted: 17 August 2006. | |||||||||
| Group: | Space Radiation Laboratory | |||||||||
| Subject Keywords: | X-ray telescopes; X-ray optics; X-ray detectors | |||||||||
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| Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | |||||||||
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