Paper 13093-225
Paper 13093-225
In-orbit operation of Resolve filter wheel and MXS
19 June 2024 • 17:30 - 19:00 Japan Standard Time | Room G5, North - 1F
Abstract
The Resolve soft x-ray spectrometer was designed to operate on the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) satellite. In the beam of Resolve there is, between the mirror and the detector, a filter wheel containing three x-ray filters and one position with a Fe55 calibration source. Also in the beam is an electronically controlled calibration source (the Modulated X-ray Source or MXS) which can provide pulsed x-rays to the detector to facilitate gain calibration. This article discusses the properties and performance of the filters and MXS during ground and early in-orbit operations of the Resolve instrument.
Presenter
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands)
Russell Shipman is a calibration scientist and scientific data processing expert. He has worked on the calibration and data processing for a number of Astronomical space missions: including the USAF Mid-course Space eXperiment in 1996, the Short Wavelength Spectrometer on ESA's Infrared Space Observatory, and the Herschel/HIFI instrument on ESA's Herschel Space Observatory. His current projects include the calibration and data quality assessment for the GUSTO stratospheric balloon mission to fly December 2023 as well as the gain calibration for the Resolve x-ray spectrometer.