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Monte-Carlo Simulations of the Suzaku-XRS Residual Background Spectrum

Piro, L.; Santangelo, A.; Mitsuda, K. +7 more

Cryogenic micro-calorimeters are suitable to detect small amounts of energy deposited by electromagnetic and nuclear interactions, which makes them attractive in a variety of applications on ground and in space. The only X-ray micro-calorimeter that operated in orbit to date is the X-Ray Spectrometer on-board of the Japanese Suzaku satellite. We d…

The EBIT Calorimeter Spectrometer: A New, Permanent User Facility at the LLNL EBIT

Kilbourne, C. A.; Porter, F. S.; Kelley, R. L. +8 more

The EBIT Calorimeter Spectrometer (ECS) is currently being completed and will be installed at the EBIT facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in October 2007. The ECS will replace the smaller XRS/EBIT microcalorimeter spectrometer that has been in almost continuous operation since 2000. The XRS/EBIT was based on a spare laboratory …

Microcalorimeter Instruments for the Spectrum-R(X)G and NeXT Missions

Ohashi, Takaya; Mitsuda, Kazuhisa; den Herder, Jan-Willem +2 more

X-ray spectrometers utilizing a microcalorimeter array are presently under study for the Russian Spectrum R-G (or Spectrum-X-Gamma) mission, which is to be launched in 2011, and for the Japanese NeXT (New X-ray Telescope or Non-thermal energy eXploration Telescope) mission, whose launch is expected to be in 2012 to 2015. The primary instrument of …