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On-ground calibration of XRISM/Xtend CCD

Authors :
Hiroyuki Uchida
Toshiyuki Takaki
Akira Kashimura
Jin Sato
Hideki Uchiyama
Yukino Urabe
Shogo B. Kobayashi
Koki Okazaki
Yoshiaki Kanemaru
Ayami Ishikura
Takeshi Go Tsuru
Shotaro Sakuma
Kengo Hattori
Hironori Matsumoto
Kazunori Asakura
Junko S. Hiraga
Takashi Sako
Hiroshi Nakajima
Tomokage Yoneyama
Mariko Saito
Hirofumi Noda
Kumiko K. Nobukawa
Hiromichi Okon
Hiroshi Murakami
Hiroshi Tomida
Yuki Amano
Kiyoshi Hayashida
Masayoshi Nobukawa
Takaaki Tanaka
Maho Hanaoka
K. Mori
Kouichi Hagino
Source :
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray.
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
SPIE, 2020.

Abstract

X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) is the seventh Japanese X-ray astronomical satellite scheduled to be launched in the Japanese fiscal year 2022. XRISM has two mission instruments, “Resolve”, a soft X-ray spectrometer, and “Xtend”, a soft X-ray imager. The Former is an X-ray micro-calorimeter that has ∼ 5 eV of energy resolution with 3′ × 3 ′ of field of view. The Latter is an X-ray CCD camera with 38′ × 38′ of field of view. Both instruments are placed on the focal plane of X-ray telescopes, X-ray Mirror Assembly (XMA). Xtend CCDs are designed almost the same as those of Hitomi (ASTRO-H), whereas some improvements have been applied. In 2019, flight-model (FM) candidates of Xtend CCDs were fabricated by Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. We performed screening experiments to examine whether they met requirements or not, and then selected the best four chips as the FM. We then performed on-ground calibration on August 2019 and September 2019 for the FM chips to determine the gain correction parameters and to construct the detector response with several energies of monochromatic X-ray. In this paper, we report screening, selection, and on-ground calibration processes, especially focusing on the response verification.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Accession number :
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