Paper 13093-69
Paper 13093-69
Calibration of the MXT camera before launch of the SVOM mission and prediction of its spectral performance at the end of the mission
20 June 2024 • 10:40 - 11:00 Japan Standard Time | Room G414/415, North - 4F
Abstract
The Micro-channel X-ray Telescope (MXT) is the X-ray telescope aboard the SVOM mission, to be launched in Spring 2024. The MXT camera is housing a 256×256 pixels pnCCD detector, characterized in 2021 at the PANTER facility during the end-to-end tests of the flight instrument. The MXT camera will suffer from proton irradiation when SVOM crosses the radiation belts. A spare model was irradiated at the Arronax cyclotron facility, and then characterized at the X-ray Metrology beamline of the SOLEIL Synchrotron facility. This work reviews the characterization of detector before and after irradiation, in order to evaluate the scientific performances of MXT camera over the SVOM mission lifetime. Some preliminary in-flight data may also be presented.
Presenter
Clara Plasse
CEA (France)
Clara Plasse is a second-year PhD student at the CEA (DAp) at Saclay, in France. Her thesis project lies at the intersection of astrophysics and instrumentation, and is centered around diverse contributions for the next transient sky space observatory: SVOM. Working alongside Diego Götz, Principal Investigator of the MXT instrument, and within the team with its scientific responsibility, she gained in the beginning of her thesis insight on the MXT and its inner workings.