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In-Orbit Performance of the Digital Electronics for the X-Ray Microcalorimeter Onboard the Hitomi Satellite

Tsujimoto, M.; Tashiro, M. S.; Ishisaki, Y. +9 more

The pulse shape processor is the onboard digital electronics unit of the X-ray microcalorimeter instrument—the soft X-ray spectrometer—onboard the Hitomi satellite. It processes X-ray events using the optimum filtering with limited resources. It was operated for 36 days in orbit continuously without issues and met the requirement of processing a 1…