All-Sky Monitor for High-Accuracy Measurement of the Cosmic X-ray Background Onboard the International Space Station
Abstract
The MVN (Monitor Vsego Neba, all-sky monitor) experiment onboard the International Space Station for high-accuracy measurement of the cosmic X-ray background by the aperture modulation method being planned in 2022-2025 is considered. The technique that allows the measurement error within the MVN experiment to be minimized is described. Simulations of the main results of the experiment have been performed. They have shown that a record accuracy of measuring the cosmic X-ray background can be achieved. The main MVN systems are considered, and the results of the flight and ground-based experiments to measure the parameters of these systems are presented.
- Publication:
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Astronomy Letters
- Pub Date:
- April 2022
- DOI:
- 10.1134/S1063773722040053
- Bibcode:
- 2022AstL...48..222S
- Keywords:
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- MVN experiment;
- cosmic X-ray background;
- experiments onboard ISS;
- X-ray detector;
- space instrumentation tests;
- cadmium telluride;
- CdTe