NICER instrument detector subsystem: description and performance
Author(s)
Prigozhin, Gregory
Gendreau, Keith
Doty, John P.
Arzoumanian, Zaven
Baumgartner, Wayne
Scholze, Frank
Laubis, Christian
Krumrey, Michael
Huber, Alan
Remillard, Ronald A
Date Issued
July 2016
Journal
Proceedings Volume 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Publisher
SPIE
Citation
Prigozhin, Gregory, et al. "NICER Instrument Detector Subsystem: Description and Performance." Proceedings Volume 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 26 June - 1 July, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, edited by Jan-Willem A. den Herder et al., SPIE, 2016, p. 99051I. © 2016 SPIE.
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Final published version
Abstract
An instrument called Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) will be placed on-board the International Space Station in 2017. It is designed to detect soft X-ray emission from compact sources and to provide both spectral and high resolution timing information about the incoming ux. The focal plane is populated with 56 customized Silicon Drift Detectors. The paper describes the detector system architecture, the electronics and presents the results of the laboratory testing of both ight and engineering units, as well as some of the calibration results obtained with synchrotron radiation in the laboratory of PTB at BESSY II.
MIT Department
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231718
