@inproceedings{c2804f688b9847e99935ded1791a143a,
title = "An introduction to the water recovery x-ray rocket",
abstract = "The Water Recovery X-ray Rocket (WRXR) is a sounding rocket payload that will launch from the Kwajalein Atoll in April 2018 and seeks to be the first astrophysics sounding rocket payload to be water recovered by NASA. WRXR's primary instrument is a grating spectrometer that consists of a mechanical collimator, X-ray reflection gratings, grazing-incidence mirrors, and a hybrid CMOS detector. The instrument will obtain a spectrum of the diffuse soft X-ray emission from the northern part of the Vela supernova remnant and is optimized for 3rd and 4th order OVII emission. Utilizing a field of view of 3.25° × 3.25° and resolving power of λ/δλ 40-50 in the lines of interest, the WRXR spectrometer aims to achieve the most highly-resolved spectrum of Vela's diffuse soft X-ray emission. This paper presents introductions to the payload and the science target.",
author = "Miles, {Drew M.} and McEntaffer, {Randall L.} and Schultz, {Ted B.} and Donovan, {Benjamin D.} and Tutt, {James H.} and Daniel Yastishock and Tyler Steiner and Hillman, {Christopher R.} and McCoy, {Jake A.} and Mitchell Wages and Sam Hull and Abe Falcone and Burrows, {David N.} and Tanmoy Chattopadhyay and Tyler Anderson and Maria McQuaide",
note = "Funding Information: The WRXR payload is funded through NASA grants NNX17AD87G and NNX15AC42G. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.; UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XX 2017 ; Conference date: 06-08-2017 Through 08-08-2017",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1117/12.2274249",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Siegmund, {Oswald H.}",
booktitle = "UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XX",
address = "United States",
}