The Marshall 100-meter x-ray beamline

Nicholas E. Thomas; Wayne H. Baumgartner; Stephen D. Bongiorno; Patrick R. Champey; Stephen P. Cheney; C. Grant Davis; Jessica A. Gaskin; Jeffery Kolodziejczak; Panini Singam; David D. Smith

doi:10.1117/12.2677927

5 October 2023 The Marshall 100-meter x-ray beamline

Nicholas E. Thomas, Wayne H. Baumgartner, Stephen D. Bongiorno, Patrick R. Champey, Stephen P. Cheney, C. Grant Davis, Jessica A. Gaskin, Jeffery Kolodziejczak, Panini Singam, David D. Smith

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Proceedings Volume 12679, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy XI; 126790U (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677927
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2023, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Marshall 100-Meter x-ray Beamline is a user facility for x-ray and EUV optics and instrumentation calibration, located at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Also known as the Stray Light Test Facility, the Marshall-100 provides a range of focal plane detectors, x-ray sources, translation stages, cleanrooms, and high-vacuum level capability to the high-energy astrophysics community. Facility time is made available to Astronomy and Physics Research and Analysis (APRA) funded projects and is also available to the broader community upon request made to beamline management. The beamline has successfully been employed in the calibration of larger scope projects such as the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma Astronomical Röentgen Telescope X-ray Concentrator (ART-XC) telescope and the Small Explorer (SMEX) class Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Space Telescope. Additionally, the Marshall-100 is instrumental in supporting testing related to MSFC’s high-angular resolution optics development program.

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Nicholas E. Thomas, Wayne H. Baumgartner, Stephen D. Bongiorno, Patrick R. Champey, Stephen P. Cheney, C. Grant Davis, Jessica A. Gaskin, Jeffery Kolodziejczak, Panini Singam, and David D. Smith "The Marshall 100-meter x-ray beamline", Proc. SPIE 12679, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy XI, 126790U (5 October 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677927

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