Open AccessDevelopment of mirror modules for the ART-XC instrument aboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma mission
Author(s) -
M. Gubarev,
Brian D. Ramsey,
Stephen L. O’Dell,
Ronald F. Elsner,
Kiranmayee Kilaru,
Jeff McCracken,
M. Pavlinsky,
A. Tkachenko,
I. Lapshov,
Carolyn Atkins,
V. E. Zavlin
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 1996-756X
pISSN - 0277-786X
DOI - 10.1117/12.2027141
Subject(s) - physics , space research , optics , angular resolution (graph drawing) , roentgen , x ray optics , detector , x ray , astronomy , nuclear medicine , medicine , mathematics , combinatorics
The Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is developing x-ray mirror modules for the ART-XC instrument on board the Spectrum-Roentgen Gamma Mission. Four of those modules are being fabricated under a Reimbursable Agreement between NASA and the Russian Space Research Institute (IKI.) An additional three flight modules and one spare for the ART-XC Instrument are produced under a Cooperative Agreement between NASA and IKI. The instrument will consist of seven co-aligned x-ray mirror modules with seven corresponding CdTe focal plane detectors. Each module consists of 28 nested thin Ni/Co shells giving an effective area of 65 cm2 at 8 keV, response out to 30 keV, and an angular resolution of 45 arcsec or better HPD. Delivery of the first four modules is scheduled for November 2013, while the remaining three modules will be delivered to IKI in January 2014. We present a status of the ART x-ray module development at MSFC.
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