TY - GEN
T1 - Flight camera package design, calibration, and performance for the Water Recovery X-ray Rocket mission
AU - Wages, Mitchell
AU - Hull, Samuel V.
AU - Falcone, Abraham D.
AU - Anderson, Tyler B.
AU - McQuaide, Maria
AU - Bray, Evan
AU - Chattopadhyay, Tanmoy
AU - Burrows, David N.
AU - Buntic, Lazar
AU - McEntaffer, Randall L.
AU - Miles, Drew M.
AU - Tutt, James H.
AU - Schultz, Ted B.
AU - Donovan, Benjamin D.
AU - Hillman, Christopher R.
AU - Yastishock, Daniel
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - The Water Recovery X-ray Rocket (WRXR) mission was a sounding rocket flight that targeted the northern part of the Vela supernova remnant with a camera designed to image the diffracted X-rays using a grating spectrometer optimized for OVII, OVIII, and CVI emissions. The readout camera for WRXR utilized a silicon hybrid CMOS detector (HCD) with an active area of 36.9 ï' 36.9 mm. A modified H2RG X-ray HCD, with 1024 ï' 1024 active silicon pixels bonded to the H2RG read-out integrated circuit, was selected for this mission based on its characteristics, technology maturation, and ease of implementation into the existing payload. This required a new camera package for the HCD to be designed, built, calibrated, and operated. This detector and camera system were successfully operated in-flight and its characteristics were demonstrated using the on-board calibration X-ray source. In this paper, a detailed description of this process, from design concept to flight performance, will be given. A full integrated instrument calibration will also be discussed, as well as the temperature dependency measurements of gain variation, read noise, and energy resolution for the HCD.
AB - The Water Recovery X-ray Rocket (WRXR) mission was a sounding rocket flight that targeted the northern part of the Vela supernova remnant with a camera designed to image the diffracted X-rays using a grating spectrometer optimized for OVII, OVIII, and CVI emissions. The readout camera for WRXR utilized a silicon hybrid CMOS detector (HCD) with an active area of 36.9 ï' 36.9 mm. A modified H2RG X-ray HCD, with 1024 ï' 1024 active silicon pixels bonded to the H2RG read-out integrated circuit, was selected for this mission based on its characteristics, technology maturation, and ease of implementation into the existing payload. This required a new camera package for the HCD to be designed, built, calibrated, and operated. This detector and camera system were successfully operated in-flight and its characteristics were demonstrated using the on-board calibration X-ray source. In this paper, a detailed description of this process, from design concept to flight performance, will be given. A full integrated instrument calibration will also be discussed, as well as the temperature dependency measurements of gain variation, read noise, and energy resolution for the HCD.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2529361
DO - 10.1117/12.2529361
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85076894751
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI
A2 - Siegmund, Oswald H.
PB - SPIE
T2 - UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI 2019
Y2 - 11 August 2019 through 13 August 2019
ER -