TY - GEN
T1 - An update on the rockets for extended-source X-ray spectroscopy
AU - Miles, Drew M.
AU - Tutt, James H.
AU - McCurdy, Ross
AU - Anderson, Tyler Brooks
AU - Baker, Logan
AU - Grise, Fabien
AU - Hillman, Christopher
AU - Hunter, Keir
AU - Omeara, Bridget
AU - Washington, Daniel
AU - Weston, Joseph
AU - Zinski, Natalie M.
AU - McEntaffer, Randall L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The tREXS payload is supported by NASA APRA 80NSSC18K0282. Work on the design of this instrument and research into grating fabrication is supported by two NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships. The authors would like to thank the staff at Penn State’s Nanofabrication Laboratory, especially Chad Eichfeld and Michael Labella, Philips SCIL Nanoimprint Solutions, and the NASA and NSROC personnel that have supported the tREXS mission.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The Rockets for Extended-source X-ray Spectroscopy (tREXS) are a funded series of sounding rocket instruments to detect diffuse soft X-ray emission from astrophysical sources. The first launch of tREXS is scheduled for Q4 2021, with a goal to observe the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant.TREXS house a four-channel grating spectrometer that uses passive, mechanical focusers, arrays of reflection gratings, and an extended focal plane based around Teledyne CIS 113 CMOS sensors. We present here an update on the instrument design, build, and calibrations in advance of the launch later this year.
AB - The Rockets for Extended-source X-ray Spectroscopy (tREXS) are a funded series of sounding rocket instruments to detect diffuse soft X-ray emission from astrophysical sources. The first launch of tREXS is scheduled for Q4 2021, with a goal to observe the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant.TREXS house a four-channel grating spectrometer that uses passive, mechanical focusers, arrays of reflection gratings, and an extended focal plane based around Teledyne CIS 113 CMOS sensors. We present here an update on the instrument design, build, and calibrations in advance of the launch later this year.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2594291
DO - 10.1117/12.2594291
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85117468742
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXII
A2 - Siegmund, Oswald H.
PB - SPIE
T2 - UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXII 2021
Y2 - 1 August 2021 through 5 August 2021
ER -