RT-2 Experiment (RT - Roentgen Telescope) is a low energy gamma-ray instrument which is designed and developed as a part of Indo-Russian collaborative project of CORONAS-PHOTON Mission to study the Solar flares in wide energy band of electromagnetic spectrum ranging from UV to high-energy gamma-rays (~2000 MeV). RT-2 instruments will cover the energy range of 15 keV to 150 keV extendable up to ~1 MeV. It consists of three detectors (two Phoswich detectors, namely, RT-2/S, RT-2/G and one solid-state imaging detector RT-2/CZT) and one processing electronic device (RT-2/E). Both Phoswich detectors will have time resolved spectrum, whereas the solid-state imaging detector will have high resolved image of the solar flares in hard X-rays. We have used Co-57 (122 keV) radio-active source for onboard calibration of all three detectors. In this paper, we briefly discuss the in-flight performance of RT-2 instruments and present initial flight data from the instruments. This mission was launched into polar LEO (Low Earth Orbit) (~550 km) on 30th January 2009 from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia.
@article{arxiv.0912.4126,
title = {Indian Payloads (RT-2 Experiment) Onboard CORONAS-PHOTON Mission},
author = {Anuj Nandi and A. R. Rao and Sandip K. Chakrabarti and J. P. Malkar and S. Sreekumar and Dipak Debnath and M. K. Hingar and Tilak Kotoch and Yuri Kotovk and Andrey Arkhangelskiy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.4126},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
IEEE style, 4 pages with 8 figures, Conference proceedings of '1st International Conference of Space Technology (ICST-2009)' held at Thessaloniki, Greece from 24-26 August 2009, G. Lampropoulos and M. Petrou (Eds.)