3 May 2021 X-ray transmission calibration of the gate valve for the x-ray astronomy satellite XRISM
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Abstract

Resolve onboard the x-ray satellite X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) is a cryogenic instrument with an x-ray microcalorimeter in a Dewar. A lid partially transparent to x-rays (called gate valve or GV) is installed at the top of the Dewar along the optical axis. Because observations will be made through the GV for the first few months, the x-ray transmission calibration of the GV is crucial for initial scientific outcomes. We present the results of our ground calibration campaign of the GV, which is composed of a Be window and a stainless steel mesh. For the stainless steel mesh, we measured its transmission using the x-ray beamline at ISAS. For the Be window, we used synchrotron facilities to measure the transmission and modeled the data with (i) photoelectric absorption and incoherent scattering of Be, (ii) photoelectric absorption of contaminants, and (iii) coherent scattering of Be changing at specific energies. We discuss the physical interpretation of the transmission discontinuity caused by the Bragg diffraction in polycrystal Be, which we incorporated into our transmission phenomenological model. We present the x-ray diffraction measurement on the sample to support our interpretation. The measurements and the constructed model meet the calibration requirements of the GV. We also performed a spectral fitting of the Crab nebula observed with Hitomi SXS and confirmed improvements of the model parameters.

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Takuya Midooka, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Shunji Kitamoto, Nozomi Nakaniwa, Yoshitomo Maeda, Manabu Ishida, Ken Ebisawa, and Mayu Tominaga "X-ray transmission calibration of the gate valve for the x-ray astronomy satellite XRISM," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 7(2), 028005 (3 May 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.7.2.028005
Received: 13 January 2021; Accepted: 14 April 2021; Published: 3 May 2021
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KEYWORDS
X-rays

Beryllium

X-ray astronomy

Calibration

Data modeling

Absorption

Satellites

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