The X-ray spectrometer experiment on the first spacelab flight
Abstract
The First Spacelab Flight - scheduled for September 1983 - will carry a multidisciplinary payload intended to demonstrate that valuable scientific results can be achieved with such short duration missions. The payload complement includes a spectrometer to undertake observations of the brighter cosmic X-ray sources. The primary scientific objectives of this experiment are the study of detailed spectral features in cosmic X-ray sources and their associated temporal variations over a wide energy range from about 2 keV up to 80 keV. The instrument based on the gas scintillation proportional counter, will have an effective area of some 180 cm2 with an energy resolution of ∼ 9% FWHM at 7 keV. The key performance parameters of the instrument, which include calibration results and the sensitivity of the planned observations, are discussed.
- Publication:
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Advances in Space Research
- Pub Date:
- 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0273-1177(82)90075-8
- Bibcode:
- 1982AdSpR...2d.281A
- Keywords:
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- Mission Planning;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- Spacelab Payloads;
- Spectrometers;
- X Ray Spectroscopy;
- Line Spectra;
- Space Commercialization;
- Space Transportation System;
- Structural Design;
- X Ray Sources;
- Astronomy