Performance of The Nuclear Spectroscopic Array
Abstract
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) will be the first focusing telescope on orbit to operate in the high energy X-ray band (6 - 79 keV). This Small Explorer Mission is currently under development, and is scheduled for launch in 2011. In this poster we describe the detailed performance characteristics the hard X-ray multilayer optics and shielded solid state focal plane detectors. We describe the expected throughput, spectroscopy and imaging properties of the observatory, as well as the planned data analysis and archiving plans.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #213
- Pub Date:
- January 2009
- Bibcode:
- 2009AAS...21345201M