NuSTAR ground calibration: The Rainwater Memorial Calibration Facility (RaMCaF)

Nicolai Brejnholt; Finn Erland Christensen; Anders Clemen Jakobsen; Charles J. Hailey; Jason E. Koglin; Kenneth L. Blaedel; Marcela Stern; Doug Thornhill; Clio Sleator; Shuo Zhang; William W. Craig; Kristin K. Madsen; Todd Decker; Michael J. Pivovaroff; Julia K. Vogel

doi:10.1117/12.894659

NuSTAR ground calibration: The Rainwater Memorial Calibration Facility (RaMCaF)

Nicolai Brejnholt, Finn Erland Christensen, Anders Clemen Jakobsen, Charles J. Hailey, Jason E. Koglin, Kenneth L. Blaedel, Marcela Stern, Doug Thornhill, Clio Sleator, Shuo Zhang, William W. Craig, Kristin K. Madsen, Todd Decker, Michael J. Pivovaroff, Julia K. Vogel

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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.

Original language	English
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	8147
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	81470I-9
ISSN	0277-786X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.894659
Publication status	Published - 2011

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NuSTAR
Multilayers
Hard X-rays
X-ray optics calibration

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Brejnholt, N., Christensen, F. E., Jakobsen, A. C., Hailey, C. J., Koglin, J. E., Blaedel, K. L., Stern, M., Thornhill, D., Sleator, C., Zhang, S., Craig, W. W., Madsen, K. K., Decker, T., Pivovaroff, M. J., & Vogel, J. K. (2011). NuSTAR ground calibration: The Rainwater Memorial Calibration Facility (RaMCaF). Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 8147(1), 81470I-9. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.894659

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NuSTAR ground calibration: The Rainwater Memorial Calibration Facility (RaMCaF)

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