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NuSTAR ground calibration: The Rainwater Memorial Calibration Facility (RaMCaF)
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- O'Dell, Stephen L.
- Pareschi, Giovanni
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Abstract
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is a NASA Small Explorer mission that will carry the first focusing hard X-ray (5-80 keV ) telescope to orbit. The ground calibration of the three flight optics was carried out at the Rainwater Memorial Calibration Facility (RaMCaF) built for this purpose. In this article we present the facility and its use for the ground calibration of the three optics.
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© 2011 SPIE. The NuSTAR mission is funded by NASA through contract number NNG08FD60C. Part of this work was funded by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space). Surface metrology (AFM and optical surface profiling) was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. LLNL contributions also included support from LDRD project 10-SI-007. The prototype SDD was provided by Didier Barret of the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP). The prototype SDD development is funded by IRAP, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES). The use of the EMCCD X-ray detector for optics calibration was made possible thanks to NASA SBIR Grant NNX11CH32P.Attached Files
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- NASA
- NNG08FD60C
- Technical University of Denmark
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-AC52-07NA27344
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- 10-SI-007
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
- NASA
- NNX11CH32P
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- NuSTAR, Space Radiation Laboratory
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- 8147