Published September 7, 2012
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NuSTAR on-ground calibration: I. Imaging quality
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Technical University of Denmark
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California Institute of Technology
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Columbia University
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Abstract
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched in June 2012 carries the first focusing hard Xray (5 - 80 keV) telescope to orbit. The on-ground calibration was performed at the RaMCaF facility at Nevis, Columbia University. During the assembly of the telescopes, mechanical surface metrology provided surface maps of the reflecting surfaces. Several flight coated mirrors were brought to BNL for scattering measurements. The information from both sources is fed to a raytracing code that is tested against the on-ground calibration data. The code is subsequently used for predicting the imaging properties for X-ray sources at infinite distance.
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© 2012 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). The work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. The support of the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program is gratefully acknowledged.Attached Files
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Funding
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-AC52-07NA27344
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD)
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- NuSTAR , Space Radiation Laboratory
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- Proceedings of SPIE
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- 8443