The Chandra High‐Energy Transmission Grating: Design, Fabrication, Ground Calibration, and 5 Years in Flight

By C. Canizares, Jon E Davis, D. Dewey, K. Flanagan, Eugene B. Galton, D. Huenemoerder, K. Ishibashi, T. Markert, H. Marshall, M. McGuirk and 4 more. 2005

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Details of the design, fabrication, and ground and flight calibration of the High Energy Transmission Grating (HETG) on the Chandra X‐Ray Observatory are presented after 5 years of flight experience. Specifics include the theory of phased transmission gratings as applied to the HETG, the Rowland design of the spectrometer, details of the grating fabrication techniques, and the results of ground testing and calibration of the HETG. For nearly 6 years the HETG has operated essentially as designed, although it has presented some subtle flight calibration effects.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computational Mechanics

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• THE EXTREME SPIN OF THE BLACK HOLE IN CYGNUS X-1 (2011, methodology): “Our Chandra observations were made using the HighEnergy Transmission Grating (HETG) and the Advanced Camera for Imaging and Spectroscopy (ACIS) (Canizares et al. 2005; Garmire et al. 2003).”