Calibration of the AXAF-HRC UV/ion shields at Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S. Vaiana: II - x-ray transmission measurements

Alfonso Collura; Marco Barbera; Alessandro Dara; Salvatore Serio; Martin V. Zombeck

doi:10.1117/12.255989

31 October 1996 Calibration of the AXAF-HRC UV/ion shields at Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S. Vaiana: II - x-ray transmission measurements

Alfonso Collura, Marco Barbera, Alessandro Dara, Salvatore Serio, Martin V. Zombeck

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Proceedings Volume 2808, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy VII; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.255989
Event: SPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1996, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

X-ray transmission measurements have been conducted at the XACT facility on baseline design AXAF-HRC UV/ion shield using an electron impact x-ray source, a transmission grating monochromator and gas flow proportional counters. Transmission has been measured at several energies in the range 0.1 - 2.0 keV with and without the transmission grating monochromator. It turns out that the monochromator enormously improves the measurement accuracy. UV measurements conducted by us on the same shield and reported elsewhere showed an unexpectedly high UV transmission which led to a redesign of the UV/ion shields. Calibration of the new shields, based on different materials, is still in progress. In this paper we outline the calibration procedure and the data analysis technique, and report transmission results on the baseline design shield.

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Alfonso Collura, Marco Barbera, Alessandro Dara, Salvatore Serio, and Martin V. Zombeck "Calibration of the AXAF-HRC UV/ion shields at Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S. Vaiana: II - x-ray transmission measurements", Proc. SPIE 2808, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, (31 October 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.255989

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