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The transition-edge EBIT microcalorimeter spectrometer
Author(s): Gabriele L. Betancourt-Martinez; Joseph Adams; Simon Bandler; Peter Beiersdorfer; Gregory Brown; James Chervenak; Randy Doriese; Megan Eckart; Kent Irwin; Richard Kelley; Caroline Kilbourne; Maurice Leutenegger; F. Scott Porter; Carl Reintsema; Stephen Smith; Joel Ullom
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Paper Abstract

The Transition-edge EBIT Microcalorimeter Spectrometer (TEMS) is a 1000-pixel array instrument to be delivered to the Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 2015. It will be the first fully operational array of its kind. The TEMS will utilize the unique capabilities of the EBIT to verify and benchmark atomic theory that is critical for the analysis of high-resolution data from microcalorimeter spectrometers aboard the next generation of x-ray observatories. We present spectra from the present instrumentation at EBIT, as well as our latest results with time-division multiplexing using the current iteration of the TEMS focal plane assembly in our test platform at NASA/GSFC.

Paper Details

Date Published: 25 September 2014
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 9144, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 91443U (25 September 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2055568
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Gabriele L. Betancourt-Martinez, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States)
Univ. of Maryland, College Park (United States)
Joseph Adams, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States)
Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County (United States)
Simon Bandler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States)
Univ. of Maryland, College Park (United States)
Peter Beiersdorfer, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
Gregory Brown, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States)
James Chervenak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States)
Randy Doriese, National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States)
Megan Eckart, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States)
Kent Irwin, Stanford Univ. (United States)
Richard Kelley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States)
Caroline Kilbourne, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States)
Maurice Leutenegger, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States)
Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County (United States)
F. Scott Porter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States)
Carl Reintsema, National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States)
Stephen Smith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States)
Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County (United States)
Joel Ullom, National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States)


Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9144:
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Tadayuki Takahashi; Jan-Willem A. den Herder; Mark Bautz, Editor(s)

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