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Published May 1, 2020 | Version Submitted
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NuSTAR low energy effective area correction due to thermal blanket tear

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Abstract

A rip in the MLI at the exit aperture of OMA, the NuSTAR optic aligned with detector focal plane module FPMA, has resulted in an increased photon flux through OMA that has manifested itself as a low energy excess. Overall, the MLI coverage has decreased by 10%, but there is an additional time-varying component, which occasionally causes the opening to increase by up to 20%. We address the problem with a calibration update, and in this paper, we describe the attributes of the problem, the implications it has on data analysis, and the solution.

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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). Facility: NuSTAR This document serves as a technical note for the NuSTAR CALDB version 20200429. The CADLB release is the first in a two parts made to address the problem described in the paper. The paper will be updated with the second release, and will be submitted to a journal after the final release.

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103715
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CaltechAUTHORS:20200604-151455025

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http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00569 (URL)

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NASA
NNG08FD60C
NASA/JPL/Caltech

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2020-06-05
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2023-06-02
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Astronomy Department, Space Radiation Laboratory, NuSTAR