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Micro-X Sounding Rocket: Transitioning from First Flight to a Dark Matter Configuration

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2020-02-03 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Experiment Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

The Micro-X sounding rocket flew for the first time on July 22, 2018, becoming the first program to fly Transition-Edge Sensors and multiplexing SQUID readout electronics in space. While a rocket pointing failure led to no time on-target, the success of the flight systems was demonstrated. The successful flight operation of the instrument puts the program in a position to modify the payload for indirect galactic dark matter searches. The payload modifications are motivated by the science requirements of this observation. Micro-X can achieve world-leading sensitivity in the keV regime with a single flight. Dark matter sensitivity projections have been updated to include recent observations and the expected sensitivity of Micro-X to these observed fluxes. If a signal is seen (as seen in the X-ray satellites), Micro-X can differentiate an atomic line from a dark matter signature.

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@article{arxiv.1908.09010,
  title  = {Micro-X Sounding Rocket: Transitioning from First Flight to a Dark Matter Configuration},
  author = {J. S. Adams and A. J. Anderson and R. Baker and S. R. Bandler and N. Bastidon and D. Castro and M. E. Danowski and W. B. Doriese and M. E. Eckart and E. Figueroa-Feliciano and D. C. Goldfinger and S. N. T. Heine and G. C. Hilton and A. J. F. Hubbard and R. L. Kelley and C. A. Kilbourne and R. E. Manzagol-Harwood and D. McCammon and T. Okajima and F. S. Porter and C. D. Reintsema and P. Serlemitsos and S. J. Smith and P. Wikus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.09010},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors (LTD18)

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