The Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating: Design, Fabrication, Ground Calibration and Five Years in Flight
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Canizares, Claude R.
Davis, John E.
Dewey, Dan
Flanagan, Kathryn A.
Galton, Eugene B.
Huenemoerder, David P.
Ishibashi, Kazunori
Markert, Thomas H.
McGuirk, Michael
Schattenburg, Mark Lee
Date Issued
September 2005
Journal
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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University of Chicago Press, The
Citation
Canizares, Claude R. et al. “The Chandra High‐Energy Transmission Grating: Design, Fabrication, Ground Calibration, and 5 Years in Flight.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 117.836 (2005): 1144–1171.
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Abstract
Details of the design, fabrication, and ground and flight calibration of the High Energy Transmission Grating (HETG) on the Chandra X‐Ray Observatory are presented after 5 years of flight experience. Specifics include the theory of phased transmission gratings as applied to the HETG, the Rowland design of the spectrometer, details of the grating fabrication techniques, and the results of ground testing and calibration of the HETG. For nearly 6 years the HETG has operated essentially as designed, although it has presented some subtle flight calibration effects.
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Lincoln Laboratory
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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