The ground support equipment for the LAUE project

E. Caroli; N. Auricchio; A. Basili; V. Carassiti; F. Cassese; S. Del Sordo; F. Frontera; M. Pecora; L. Recanatesi; F. Schiavone; S. Silvestri; S. Squerzanti; J. B. Stephen; E. Virgilli

doi:10.1117/12.2024349

26 September 2013 The ground support equipment for the LAUE project

E. Caroli, N. Auricchio, A. Basili, V. Carassiti, F. Cassese, S. Del Sordo, F. Frontera, M. Pecora, L. Recanatesi, F. Schiavone, S. Silvestri, S. Squerzanti, J. B. Stephen, E. Virgilli

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Proceedings Volume 8861, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy VI; 886108 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024349
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The development of wide band Laue lens imaging technology is challenging, but has important potential applications in hard X- and γ-ray space instrumentation for the coming decades. The Italian Space Agency has funded a project dedicated to the development of a reliable technology to assemble a wide band Laue lens for use in space. The ground support equipment (GSE) for this project was fundamental to its eventual success... The GSE was implemented in a hard X-ray beam line built at the University of Ferrara and had the main purpose of controlling the assembly of crystals onto the Laue lens petal and to verify its final performance. The GSE incorporates the management and control of all the movements of the beam line mechanical subsystems and of the precision positioner (based on a Hexapod tool) of crystals on the petal, as well as the acquisition, storing and analysis of data obtained from the focal plane detectors (an HPGe spectrometer and an X-ray flat panel imager). The GSE is based on two PC’s connected through a local network: one, placed inside the beam line, to which all the movement subsystems and the detector I/O interface and on which all the management and acquisition S/W runs, the other in the control room allows the remote control and implements the offline analysis S/W of the data obtained from the detectors. Herein we report on the GSE structure with its interface with the beam line mechanical system, with the fine crystal positioner and with the focal plane detector. Furthermore we describe the SW developed for the handling of the mechanical movement subsystems and for the analysis of the detector data with the procedure adopted for the correct orientation of the crystals before their bonding on the lens petal support.

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E. Caroli, N. Auricchio, A. Basili, V. Carassiti, F. Cassese, S. Del Sordo, F. Frontera, M. Pecora, L. Recanatesi, F. Schiavone, S. Silvestri, S. Squerzanti, J. B. Stephen, and E. Virgilli "The ground support equipment for the LAUE project", Proc. SPIE 8861, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy VI, 886108 (26 September 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024349

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