The Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is developing x-ray mirror modules for the ART-XC instrument on board the Spectrum-Roentgen Gamma Mission. Four of those modules are being fabricated under a Reimbursable Agreement between NASA and the Russian Space Research Institute (IKI.) An additional three flight modules and one spare for the ART-XC Instrument are produced under a Cooperative Agreement between NASA and IKI. The instrument will consist of seven co-aligned x-ray mirror modules with seven corresponding CdTe focal plane detectors. Each module consists of 28 nested thin Ni/Co shells giving an effective area of 65 cm2 at 8 keV, response out to 30 keV, and an angular resolution of 45 arcsec or better HPD. Delivery of the first four modules is scheduled for November 2013, while the remaining three modules will be delivered to IKI in January 2014. We present a status of the ART x-ray module development at MSFC.


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    Title :

    Development of Mirror Modules for the ART-XC Instrument aboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma Mission


    Contributors:
    M. Gubarev (author) / B. Ramsey (author) / V. Zavlin (author) / S. L. O'Dell (author) / R. Elsner (author) / K. Kilaru (author) / J. McCracken (author) / M. Pavlinsky (author) / A. Tkachenko (author) / I. Lapshov (author)

    Publication date :

    2013


    Size :

    6 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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