Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) onboard ASTRO-H

Kiyoshi Hayashida; Hiroshi Tsunemi; Takeshi Go Tsuru; Tadayasu Dotani; Hiroshi Nakajima; Naohisa Anabuki; Ryo Nagino; Shutaro Ueda; Takaaki Tanaka; Hiroyuki Uchida; Masayoshi Nobukawa; Masayuki Ozaki; Chikara Natsukari; Junko S. Hiraga; Hiroshi Tomida; Masashi Kimura; Tadayoshi Kohmura; Hiroshi Murakami; Koji Mori; Makoto Yamauchi; Isamu Hatsukade; Yusuke Nishioka; Aya Bamba; Shuhei Katada; Kumiko Kawabata Nobukawa; Masachika Iwai; Keisuke Kondo; Tukasa Takeyoshi; John P. Doty

doi:10.1117/12.2054575

29 July 2014 Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) onboard ASTRO-H

Kiyoshi Hayashida, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Tadayasu Dotani, Hiroshi Nakajima, Naohisa Anabuki, Ryo Nagino, Shutaro Ueda, Takaaki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Uchida, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Masayuki Ozaki, Chikara Natsukari, Junko S. Hiraga, Hiroshi Tomida, Masashi Kimura, Tadayoshi Kohmura, Hiroshi Murakami, Koji Mori, Makoto Yamauchi, Isamu Hatsukade, Yusuke Nishioka, Aya Bamba, Shuhei Katada, Kumiko Kawabata Nobukawa, Masachika Iwai, Keisuke Kondo, Tukasa Takeyoshi, John P. Doty

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Proceedings Volume 9144, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 914429 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054575
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) is a CCD camera onboard the ASTRO-H satellite which is scheduled to be launched in 2015. The SXI camera contains four CCD chips, each with an imaging area of 31mm x 31 mm, arrayed in mosaic, covering the whole FOV area of 38′ x 38′. The CCDs are a P-channel back-illuminated (BI) type with a depletion layer thickness of 200 _m. High QE of 77% at 10 keV expected for this device is an advantage to cover an overlapping energy band with the Hard X-ray Imager (HXI) onboard ASTRO-H. Most of the flight components of the SXI system are completed until the end of 2013 and assembled, and an end-to-end test is performed. Basic performance is verified to meet the requirements. Similar performance is confirmed in the first integration test of the satellite performed in March to June 2014, in which the energy resolution at 5.9 keV of 160 eV is obtained. In parallel to these activities, calibrations using engineering model CCDs are performed, including QE, transmission of a filter, linearity, and response profiles.

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Kiyoshi Hayashida, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Tadayasu Dotani, Hiroshi Nakajima, Naohisa Anabuki, Ryo Nagino, Shutaro Ueda, Takaaki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Uchida, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Masayuki Ozaki, Chikara Natsukari, Junko S. Hiraga, Hiroshi Tomida, Masashi Kimura, Tadayoshi Kohmura, Hiroshi Murakami, Koji Mori, Makoto Yamauchi, Isamu Hatsukade, Yusuke Nishioka, Aya Bamba, Shuhei Katada, Kumiko Kawabata Nobukawa, Masachika Iwai, Keisuke Kondo, Tukasa Takeyoshi, and John P. Doty "Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) onboard ASTRO-H", Proc. SPIE 9144, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 914429 (29 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054575

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