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Calibration of the XRT-SOLARB flight filters at the XACT facility of INAF-OAPA

Marco BarberaGiuseppe LulloGiovanni PeresMaria Antonella ArtaleRoberto CandiaCollura AlfonsoPerinati EmanueleSalvo VariscoBookbinder J. ACheimets Peter NCosmo Mario LDeluca Edward ELeon GolubWeberMark A.

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PhysicsX-ray astronomybusiness.industryAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaAstrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for AstrophysicsField of viewFilter (signal processing)law.inventionTelescopeOpticslawCalibrationAstrophysics::Solar and Stellar AstrophysicsAngular resolutionSatellitebusinessImage resolutionX-ray Astronomy Instrumentation Filters CalibrationRemote sensing

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The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) experiment on-board the Japanese satellite SOLAR-B (launch in 2006) aimed at providing full Sun field of view at ~ 1.5" angular resolution, will be equipped with two wheels of focal-plane filters to select spectral features of X-ray emission from the Solar corona, and a front-end filter to significantly reduce the visible light contamination. We present the results of the X-ray calibrations of the XRT flight filters performed at the X-ray Astronomy Calibration and Testing (XACT) facility of INAF-OAPA. We describe the instrumental set-up, the adopted measurement technique, and present the transmission vs. energy and position measurements.

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2004-10-11
10.1117/12.553127http://hdl.handle.net/10447/7163