Kitaguchi, Takao and Bhalerao, Varun and Cook, W. Rick and Forster, Karl and Grefenstette, Brian W. and Harrison, Fiona A. and Madsen, Kristin K. and Mao, Peter H. and Miyasaka, Hiromasa and Rana, Vikram R. (2014) Inflight performance and calibration of the NuSTAR CdZnTe pixel detectors. In: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation - Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Proceedings of SPIE. No.9144. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) , Bellingham, WA, Art. No. 91441R. ISBN 978-0-8194-9612-6. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20150616-083335514
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The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) satellite is a NASA Small Explorer mission designed to operate the first focusing high-energy X-ray (3-79 keV) telescope in orbit. Since the launch in June 2012, all the NuSTAR components have been working normally. The focal plane module is equipped with an 155Eu radioactive source to irradiate the CdZnTe pixel detectors for independent calibration separately from optics. The inflight spectral calibration of the CdZnTe detectors is performed with the onboard 155Eu source. The derived detector performance agrees well with ground-measured data. The in-orbit detector background rate is stable and the lowest among past high-energy X-ray instruments.
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| Additional Information: | © 2014 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Date Published: 24 July 2014. This work was supported under NASA Contract No. NNG08FD60C, and made use of data from the NuSTAR mission, a project led by the California Institute of Technology, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We thank the NuSTAR Operations, Software and Calibration teams for support with the execution and analysis of these observations. This research has made use of the NuSTAR Data Analysis Software (NuSTARDAS) jointly developed by the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC, Italy) and the California Institute of Technology (USA). T.K. was supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (No. 24740185). | ||||||||||||||||
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| Subject Keywords: | NuSTAR, CdZnTe, High-energy X-rays | ||||||||||||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2057342 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Official Citation: | Takao Kitaguchi ; Varun Bhalerao ; W. R. Cook ; Karl Forster ; Brian W. Grefenstette, et al. "Inflight performance and calibration of the NuSTAR CdZnTe pixel detectors", Proc. SPIE 9144, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 91441R (July 24, 2014); doi:10.1117/12.2057342 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Deposited By: | Ruth Sustaita | ||||||||||||||||
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