JEM-X inflight performance
Andersson, H.; Frontera, F.; Costa, E.; Hornstrup, A.; Oxborrow, C. A.; Schmidt, M.; Huovelin, J.; Gomez, C.; Maisala, S.; Westergaard, N. J.; Kretschmar, P.; Lund, N.; Castro-Tirado, A.; Feroci, M.; Sarri, G.; Larsson, S.; Chenevez, J.; Brandt, S.; Zdziarski, A. A.; Morelli, E.; Rapisarda, M.; Rubini, A.; Vilhu, O.; Orr, A.; Andersson, T.; Reglero, V.; Schnopper, H. W.; Rasmussen, I. L.; Much, R.; Loffredo, G.; Pelliciari, C.; Carassiti, V.; Laursen, S.; Polny, J.; Budtz-Jørgensen, C.; Andersen, K. H.; Jensen, P. A.; Omø, K.; Pedersen, S. M.; Morawski, M.; Juchnikowski, G.; Martínez Núñez, S.; Svensson, R.; Goria, M.; Giulianelli, G.; Rezazad, M.; Cordero, F.; Carli, R.; Jensen, P. L.
Denmark, Finland, Poland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, United States
Abstract
We summarize the inflight performance of JEM-X, the X-ray monitor on the INTEGRAL mission during the initial ten months of operations. The JEM-X instruments have now been tuned to stable operational conditions. The performance is found to be close to the pre-launch expectations. The ground calibrations and the inflight calibration data permit to determine the instruments characteristics to fully support the scientific data analysis.
Based on observations with INTEGRAL, an ESA project with instruments and science data centre funded by ESA member states (especially the PI countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain), Czech Republic and Poland, and with the participation of Russia and the USA.