Search Results - "Vaillancourt, J.E."

The next-generation microcalorimeter array of XRS on Astro-E2 by Stahle, C.K., Allen, C.A., Boyce, K.R., Brekosky, R.P., Brown, G.V., Cottam, J., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Galeazzi, M., Gygax, J.D., Jacobson, M.B., Kelley, R.L., Liu, D., McCammon, D., McClanahan, R.A., Moseley, S.H., Porter, F.S., Rocks, L.E., Szymkowiak, A.E., Vaillancourt, J.E.

“…The square-format 32-pixel microcalorimeter array at the focal plane of the high-resolution X-ray spectrometer on the Astro-E2 X-ray Observatory is the first…”
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Large area bismuth absorbers for X-ray microcalorimeters by Vaillancourt, J.E, Allen, C.A, Brekosky, R, Dosaj, A, Galeazzi, M, Kelley, R, Liu, D, McCammon, D, Porter, F.S, Rocks, L.E, Sanders, W.T, Stahle, C.K

“…Two challenges facing the use of large area (2mm×2mm) bismuth absorbers for microcalorimetry are uncertainties in the heat capacity of bismuth and the effects…”
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Design of the second generation XRS detector by Galeazzi, M, Boyce, K.R, Brown, G.V, Chen, C, Cottam, J, Figueroa-Feliciano, E, Jacobson, M.B, Kelley, R.L, Liu, D, McCammon, D, Porter, F.S, Rocks, L.E, Stahle, C.K, Szymkowiak, A.E, Vaillancourt, J.E

“…Microcalorimeter performance is limited by non-ideal effects that were not included in the standard theory of bolometers and microcalorimeters developed 20…”
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