Actively shielded CZT focal plane detectors for the fine resolution X-ray imaging telescope (FAR_XITE)

Richard E. Rothschild; Duane E. Gruber; William A. Heindl; James L. Matteson; Melville P. Ulmer; D. Robert Altkorn; Steven M. Matz; Paul L. Hink; Allen S. Krieger; Ruediger Staubert; Tumay Tumer

Actively shielded CZT focal plane detectors for the fine resolution X-ray imaging telescope (FAR_XITE)

Richard E. Rothschild^*, Duane E. Gruber, William A. Heindl, James L. Matteson, Melville P. Ulmer, D. Robert Altkorn, Steven M. Matz, Paul L. Hink, Allen S. Krieger, Ruediger Staubert, Tumay Tumer

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Abstract

The FAR_XITE balloon payload concept contains 10 co-aligned, hard X-ray telescopes, each containing a set of nested multilayer mirror modules and an actively shielded CZT strip detector at each focal plane. The 500 micron strip pitch provides 26 arcsecond pixels at the 4m focal length of FAR_XITE. The active shielding and advanced CZT detector techniques reduce the background at float altitudes to a few times 10^-4 counts/cm² s keV. We describe these advanced detectors and how they allow us to meet the scientific objectives of the FAR_XITE program.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	360-367
Number of pages	8
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	3765
State	Published - Dec 1 1999
Event	Proceedings of the 1999 EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy X - Denver, CO, USA Duration: Jul 21 1999 → Jul 23 1999

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Actively shielded CZT focal plane detectors for the fine resolution X-ray imaging telescope (FAR_XITE)

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