Papers

Peer-reviewed
2014

Upgrade of the thirty-meter x-ray pencil beam line at the institute of space and astronautical science

SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2014: ULTRAVIOLET TO GAMMA RAY
  • Takayuki Hayashi
  • ,
  • Toshiki Sato
  • ,
  • Kazuki Tomikawa
  • ,
  • Naomichi Kikuchi
  • ,
  • Takuro Sato
  • ,
  • Ryo Iizuka
  • ,
  • Yoshitomo Maeda
  • ,
  • Manabu Ishida

Volume
9144
Number
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (international conference proceedings)
DOI
10.1117/12.2055741
Publisher
SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING

The thirty-meter X-ray pencil beam line at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) was utilized for ground-based calibrations of X-ray telescopes (XRTs) onboard the ASTRO-D, the ASTRO-E and the ASTRO-E2 satellites. Recent upsizing or downsizing of XRT required upgrade of the ISAS beam line. We replaced a vacuum chamber in which the stages had been installed by a new cylindrical chamber whose diameter and length are 1.8 m and 11.3 m, respectively. Stages on which a telescope and detectors had been mounted were also replaced. At same time, a new CCD consists of 1240 x 1152 pixels whose size are 22.5 x 22.5 mu m was introduced. The detector stage can be moved along the X-ray beam in the vacuum chamber, which allows us to change the distance between the sample and the detectors from 0.7 m to 9 m. The two stages can move in at least 500 x 500 mm(2) of square in the plane normal to the X-ray beam. The pitching of some moving axes are measured at 60 arcsec at most. The others are no more than about 30 arcsec. From April 2013, the ASTRO-H Soft X-ray telescopes (SXTs) have been calibrated at the new ISAS beam line.

Link information
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055741
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000354529100129&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID information
  • DOI : 10.1117/12.2055741
  • ISSN : 0277-786X
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000354529100129

Export
BibTeX RIS