HERO, for High Energy Replicated Optics, is an evolutionary balloon payload featuring hard-X-ray grazing-incidence nickel optics. The payload provides a scientific instrument capable of high-sensitivity observations in an energy regime that is relatively unexplored at fine spatial scales, and also serves as a demonstration vehicle for in-house fabricated optics and focal plane detectors. After a proof-of-concept flight in 2001, which captured the first focused hard-X-ray images galactic sources, HERO has been significantly expanded from just 6, 3-m-focal length mirror shells to its current complement of nearly 100, 6-m-focal length mirrors. HERO was flown in 2007, from Fort Sumner, NM, and is scheduled to fly again in September 2009, from Alice Springs, NT. Full details of the payload will be provided along with preliminary data from the previous flight and science targets for the next flight, where the galactic center region will be imaged.


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    Titel :

    HERO: A Hard-X-Ray Balloon-Borne Focusing Telescope


    Beteiligte:
    Ramsey, Brian (Autor:in) / Stahl, H. Philip (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    ICO-21 2008 Congress "Optics for the 21st Century" / International Commission for Optics ; 2008 ; Sydney, Australia


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2008-07-07


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


    HERO: A Balloon-Borne Focusing Hard X-Ray Telescope

    Ramsey, Brian D. / Stahl, H. Philip | NTRS | 2008


    HERO: Program Status and Fist Images from a Balloon-Borne Focusing Hard-X-ray Telescope

    Ramsey, B. D. / Alexander, C. D. / Apple, J. A. et al. | NTRS | 2001


    HEROES Balloon-Borne Hard X-Ray Telescope

    C. A. Wilson-Hodge / J. Gaskin / D. W. Stuchlik et al. | NTIS | 2014


    First Images from HERO: A Hard-X-Ray Focusing Telescope

    Ramsey, Brian D. / Alexander, Cheryl D. / Apple, Jeff A. et al. | NTRS | 2001


    Background Reduction in a Balloon-Borne Hard X-Ray Telescope

    Rao, A. R. / Agrawal, P. C. / Shah, M. R. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1998