InFOCμS balloon-borne hard x-ray experiment with multilayer supermirror x-ray telescope

Y. Tawara; K. Yamashita; Y. Ogasaka; K. Tamura; K. Haga; T. Okajima; S. Ichimaru; S. Takahashi; A. Gotou; H. Kitou; S. Fukuda; Y. Kamata; A. Furuzawa; F. Akimoto; T. Yoshioka; K. Kondou; Y. Haba; T. Tanaka; H. Kunieda; K. Misaki; J. Tueller; P. J. Serlemitsos; K. W. Chan; Y. Soong; S. M. Owens; F. Berendse; W. H. Baugartner; H. Krimm; H. Barber; E. T. Young

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InFOCμS balloon-borne hard x-ray experiment with multilayer supermirror x-ray telescope

Y. Tawara, K. Yamashita, Y. Ogasaka, K. Tamura, K. Haga, T. Okajima, S. Ichimaru, S. Takahashi, A. Gotou, H. Kitou, S. Fukuda, Y. Kamata, A. Furuzawa, F. Akimoto, T. Yoshioka, K. Kondou, Y. Haba, T. Tanaka, H. Kunieda, K. MisakiJ. Tueller, P. J. Serlemitsos, K. W. Chan, Y. Soong, S. M. Owens, F. Berendse, W. H. Baugartner, H. Krimm, H. Barber, E. T. Young

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We have been developing the high throughput hard X-ray telescope, using reflectors coated with the depth graded multilayer known as supermirror, which is considered to be a key technology for future satellite hard X-ray imaging missions. InFOCμS, the International Focusing Optics Collaboration for μ-Crab Sensitivity is the project of the balloon observation of cosmic hard X-ray source with this type of hard X-ray telescope and CdZnTe pixel detector as a focal plane imager. For the first InFOCμS balloon experiment, we developed the hard X-ray telescope with outermost diameter of 40cm, focal length of 8m and energy band pass of 20 - 40 keV, for which Pt/C multilayer was used. From the pre-flight X-ray calibration, we confirmed its energy band and imaging capability of 2 arcmin HPD and 10 arcmin FOV of FWHM, and a effective area of 50 cm² for 20 - 40 keV X-ray. We report the current status of our balloon borne experiment and performance of our hard X-ray telescope.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	109-114
Number of pages	6
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	4496
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.454363
Publication status	Published - 2002
Externally published	Yes

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
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Tawara, Y., Yamashita, K., Ogasaka, Y., Tamura, K., Haga, K., Okajima, T., Ichimaru, S., Takahashi, S., Gotou, A., Kitou, H., Fukuda, S., Kamata, Y., Furuzawa, A., Akimoto, F., Yoshioka, T., Kondou, K., Haba, Y., Tanaka, T., Kunieda, H., ... Young, E. T. (2002). InFOCμS balloon-borne hard x-ray experiment with multilayer supermirror x-ray telescope. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 4496, 109-114. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.454363

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