The nuclear spectroscopic telescope array (NuSTAR) high-energy X-ray mission

Kristin K. Madsen; Fiona A. Harrison; Hongjun An; Steven E. Boggs; Finn E. Christensen; Rick Cook; William W. Craig; Karl Forster; Felix Fuerst; Brian Grefenstette; Charles J. Hailey; Takao Kitaguchi; Craig  Markwardt; Peter Mao; Hiromasa Miyasaka; Vikram  Rana; Daniel K. Stern; William W. Zhang; Andreas Zoglauer; Dominic Walton; Niels J. Westergaard

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The nuclear spectroscopic telescope array (NuSTAR) high-energy X-ray mission

Kristin K. Madsen, Fiona A. Harrison, Hongjun An, Steven E. Boggs, Finn E. Christensen, Rick Cook, William W. Craig, Karl Forster, Felix Fuerst, Brian Grefenstette, Charles J. Hailey, Takao Kitaguchi, Craig Markwardt, Peter Mao, Hiromasa Miyasaka, Vikram Rana, Daniel K. Stern, William W. Zhang, Andreas Zoglauer, Dominic WaltonNiels J. Westergaard

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The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission was launched on 2012 June 13 and is the first focusing high-energy X-ray telescope in orbit operating above ~10 keV. NuSTAR flies two co-aligned Wolter-I conical approximation X-ray optics, coated with Pt/C and W/Si multilayers, and combined with a focal length of 10.14 meters this enables operation from 3-79 keV. The optics focus onto two focal plane arrays, each consisting of 4 CdZnTe pixel detectors, for a field of view of 12.5 arcminutes. The inherently low background associated with concentrating the X-ray light enables NuSTAR to probe the hard X-ray sky with a more than 100-fold improvement in sensitivity, and with an effective point spread function FWHM of 18 arcseconds (HPD ~1), NuSTAR provides a leap of improvement in resolution over the collimated or coded mask instruments that have operated in this bandpass. We present in-orbit performance details of the observatory and highlight important science results from the first two years of the mission

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray : Conference volume 9144
Editors	Tadayuki Takahashi, Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Mark Bautz
Number of pages	11
Volume	9144
Publisher	SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
Publication date	2014
Article number	91441P
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056643
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - Palais des congrès de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Duration: 22 Jun 2014 → 26 Jun 2014 Conference number: 9144

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Conference	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014
Number	9144
Location	Palais des congrès de Montréal
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montréal
Period	22/06/2014 → 26/06/2014

Series	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISSN	0277-786X

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Madsen, K. K., Harrison, F. A., Hongjun An, Boggs, S. E., Christensen, F. E., Cook, R., Craig, W. W., Forster, K., Fuerst, F., Grefenstette, B., Hailey, C. J., Kitaguchi, T., Markwardt, C., Mao, P., Miyasaka, H., Rana, V., Stern, D. K., Zhang, W. W., Zoglauer, A., ... Westergaard, N. J. (2014). The nuclear spectroscopic telescope array (NuSTAR) high-energy X-ray mission. In T. Takahashi, J.-W. A. den Herder, & M. Bautz (Eds.), Proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray: Conference volume 9144 (Vol. 9144). Article 91441P SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056643

Madsen, Kristin K. ; Harrison, Fiona A. ; Hongjun An et al. / The nuclear spectroscopic telescope array (NuSTAR) high-energy X-ray mission. Proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray: Conference volume 9144. editor / Tadayuki Takahashi ; Jan-Willem A. den Herder ; Mark Bautz. Vol. 9144 SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering, 2014. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering).

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The nuclear spectroscopic telescope array (NuSTAR) high-energy X-ray mission. / Madsen, Kristin K.; Harrison, Fiona A.; Hongjun An et al.
Proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray: Conference volume 9144. ed. / Tadayuki Takahashi; Jan-Willem A. den Herder; Mark Bautz. Vol. 9144 SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering, 2014. 91441P (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering).

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Madsen KK, Harrison FA, Hongjun An, Boggs SE, Christensen FE, Cook R et al. The nuclear spectroscopic telescope array (NuSTAR) high-energy X-ray mission. In Takahashi T, den Herder JWA, Bautz M, editors, Proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray: Conference volume 9144. Vol. 9144. SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering. 2014. 91441P. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.2056643

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