The transition-edge EBIT microcalorimeter spectrometer

Gabriele L. Betancourt-Martinez; Joseph Adams; Simon Bandler; Peter Beiersdorfer; Gregory Brown; James Chervenak; Randy Doriese; Megan Eckart; Kent Irwin; Richard Kelley; Caroline Kilbourne; Maurice Leutenegger; F. Scott Porter; Carl Reintsema; Stephen Smith; Joel Ullom

doi:10.1117/12.2055568

25 September 2014 The transition-edge EBIT microcalorimeter spectrometer

Gabriele L. Betancourt-Martinez, Joseph Adams, Simon Bandler, Peter Beiersdorfer, Gregory Brown, James Chervenak, Randy Doriese, Megan Eckart, Kent Irwin, Richard Kelley, Caroline Kilbourne, Maurice Leutenegger, F. Scott Porter, Carl Reintsema, Stephen Smith, Joel Ullom

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Proceedings Volume 9144, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 91443U (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055568
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The Transition-edge EBIT Microcalorimeter Spectrometer (TEMS) is a 1000-pixel array instrument to be delivered to the Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 2015. It will be the first fully operational array of its kind. The TEMS will utilize the unique capabilities of the EBIT to verify and benchmark atomic theory that is critical for the analysis of high-resolution data from microcalorimeter spectrometers aboard the next generation of x-ray observatories. We present spectra from the present instrumentation at EBIT, as well as our latest results with time-division multiplexing using the current iteration of the TEMS focal plane assembly in our test platform at NASA/GSFC.

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Gabriele L. Betancourt-Martinez, Joseph Adams, Simon Bandler, Peter Beiersdorfer, Gregory Brown, James Chervenak, Randy Doriese, Megan Eckart, Kent Irwin, Richard Kelley, Caroline Kilbourne, Maurice Leutenegger, F. Scott Porter, Carl Reintsema, Stephen Smith, and Joel Ullom "The transition-edge EBIT microcalorimeter spectrometer", Proc. SPIE 9144, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 91443U (25 September 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055568

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