Hard x-ray calibration facility design for JEM-X detector on board INTEGRAL

Giovanni Pareschi; Filippo Frontera; Carlo Pelliciari; Guido Zavattini; Vittore Carassiti; Federico Evangelisti

doi:10.1117/12.283783

15 October 1997 Hard x-ray calibration facility design for JEM-X detector on board INTEGRAL

Giovanni Pareschi, Filippo Frontera, Carlo Pelliciari, Guido Zavattini, Vittore Carassiti, Federico Evangelisti

Proceedings Volume 3114, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.283783
Event: Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation '97, 1997, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The x-ray monitor JEM-X will be flown aboard the ESA mission INTEGRAL for gamma-ray astronomy. It has been conceived to furnish images of celestial sources in fields of the sky 9.1 deg wide in the 3 - 100 keV extended energy band. Careful on- ground calibrations are needed to verify the spectral capabilities of the JEM-X detector. These operations in the 20 - 100 keV energy band are planned to be performed using a hard x-ray (15 - 140 keV) facility operated at University of Ferrara (Italy). We present the apparatus that will be used to carry out these calibrations. In particular we describe a double-reflection fixed-exit system of monochromatization based on silicon crystals that are implemented in the facility.

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Giovanni Pareschi, Filippo Frontera, Carlo Pelliciari, Guido Zavattini, Vittore Carassiti, and Federico Evangelisti "Hard x-ray calibration facility design for JEM-X detector on board INTEGRAL", Proc. SPIE 3114, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, (15 October 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.283783

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