학술논문
Status of ART-XC/SRG Instrument
Document Type
Report
Author
Pavlinsky, M; Akimov, V; Levin, V; Lapshov, I; Tkachenko, A; Semena, N; Buntov, M; Glushenko, A; Arefiev, V; Yaskovich, A; Sunyaev, R; Churazov, E; Gilfanov, M; Grebenev, S; Sazonov, S; Revnivtsev, M; Lutovinov, A; Molkov, S; Kudelin, M; Drozdova, T; Garanin, S; Grigorovich, S; Litvin, D; Lazarchuk, V; Roiz, I; Garin, M; Babyshkin, V; Lomakin, I; Menderov, A; Moskvinov, D; Gubarev, M; Ramsey, B; Kilaru, K; ODell, S. L; Kolodziejczak, J; Elsner, R
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Subject
Language
English
Abstract
Spectrum Roentgen Gamma (SRG) is an X-ray astrophysical observatory, developed by Russia in collaboration with Germany. The mission will be launched in March 2016 from Baikonur, by a Zenit rocket with a Fregat booster and placed in a 6-month-period halo orbit around L2. The scientific payload consists of two independent telescopes - a soft-x-ray survey instrument, eROSITA, being provided by Germany and a medium-x-ray-energy survey instrument ART-XC being developed by Russia. ART-XC will consist of seven independent, but co-aligned, telescope modules. The NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is fabricating the flight mirror modules for the ART-XC/SRG. Each mirror module will be aligned with a focal plane CdTe double-sided strip detectors which will operate over the energy range of 6-30 keV, with an angular resolution of less than 1′, a field of view of approximately 34′ and an expected energy resolution of about 10 percent at 14 keV.