TY - GEN
T1 - The Rockets for Extended-source X-ray Spectroscopy
T2 - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
AU - Miles, Drew M.
AU - McCurdy, Ross
AU - Tutt, James Henry
AU - Mondoskin, Jessica
AU - Hunter, Keir
AU - Brooks, Katherine
AU - Washington, Daniel
AU - McEntaffer, Randall Lee
AU - Anderson, Tyler
AU - Baker, Logan
AU - Betts, Michael
AU - Hillman, Christopher
AU - Weston, Joseph
AU - Zinski, Natalie
AU - Eichfeld, Chad
AU - Gagliardi, Gianna
AU - González, Juan Rojas
AU - Grisé, Fabien
AU - Hawks, Sarah
AU - Hernandez, Gabrielle
AU - Kang, Joseph
AU - Labella, Michael
AU - McCoy, Jake
AU - O'Meara, Bridget
AU - Myers, Bailey
AU - Papadopoulos, Eli
AU - Pelaez, Nestor
AU - Smedile, Vincent A.
AU - Stone, Adam
AU - Wood, Taylor
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 SPIE.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The Rockets for Extended-source X-ray Spectroscopy (tREXS) is a suborbital rocket program that uses a wide-field grating spectrograph to obtain spectroscopic data on extended, soft-X-ray sources. The multi-channel tREXS spectrograph uses passive, mechanical focusing optics and stacks of reflection gratings to achieve a spectral resolution of R ≈ 50 from ≈15-40 Å over a >10 deg2 field of view. The dispersed spectra are read out by an array of 11 X-ray CMOS detectors that form a 97-megapixel focal-plane camera. tREXS was launched for the first time in September, 2022 to observe the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant. Though a failure in the rail pumping system led to a non-detection of emission from the Cygnus Loop during the flight, the rest of the instrument performed nominally and was recovered successfully. We present here an update on the instrument, results from the first flight, and a discussion of the future outlook.
AB - The Rockets for Extended-source X-ray Spectroscopy (tREXS) is a suborbital rocket program that uses a wide-field grating spectrograph to obtain spectroscopic data on extended, soft-X-ray sources. The multi-channel tREXS spectrograph uses passive, mechanical focusing optics and stacks of reflection gratings to achieve a spectral resolution of R ≈ 50 from ≈15-40 Å over a >10 deg2 field of view. The dispersed spectra are read out by an array of 11 X-ray CMOS detectors that form a 97-megapixel focal-plane camera. tREXS was launched for the first time in September, 2022 to observe the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant. Though a failure in the rail pumping system led to a non-detection of emission from the Cygnus Loop during the flight, the rest of the instrument performed nominally and was recovered successfully. We present here an update on the instrument, results from the first flight, and a discussion of the future outlook.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.3020368
DO - 10.1117/12.3020368
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85207649100
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024
A2 - den Herder, Jan-Willem A.
A2 - Nikzad, Shouleh
A2 - Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 16 June 2024 through 21 June 2024
ER -