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Hardware simulator of Caliste-SO detectors for STIX instrument
- Source :
- Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2013.
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- SPIE, 2013.
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Abstract
- The Spectrometer Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) is one of 10 instruments on-board Solar Orbiter mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) scheduled to be launched in 2017. STIX is aimed to provide imaging spectroscopy of solar thermal and non-thermal hard X-ray emissions from 4 keV to 150 keV using a Fourier-imaging technique. The instrument employs a set of tungsten grids in front of 32 pixelized CdTe detectors. These detectors are source of data collected and analyzed in real time by Instrument Data Processing Unit (IDPU). In order to support development and implementation of on-board algorithms a dedicated detector hardware simulator is designed and manufactured as a part of Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) for STIX instrument. Complementary to the hardware simulator is data analysis software which is used to generate input data and to analyze output data. The simulator will allow sending strictly defined data from all detectors’ pixels at the input of the IDPU for further analysis of instrument response. Particular emphasis is given here to the simulator hardware design.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Data processing
Spectrometer
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
Instrument Data
business.industry
Detector
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
law.invention
Telescope
Orbiter
Software
law
Electronic engineering
business
Field-programmable gate array
Computer hardware
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0277786X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2013
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........8492788e4865a282f6ce61043a74d007