Lobster-ISS is a revolutionary astrophysical X-ray all-sky monitor scheduled for deployment as an attached payload on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2009. Using a new wide field-of-view focusing optic, Lobster-ISS provides an order-of-magnitude improvement in the sensitivity of all-sky monitors in the soft X-ray band (0.1-3.0 keV). This lobster-eye optic presents unique challenges to the imaging X-ray detector at its focus. Micro-patterned imaging proportional counters, with thier mechanical simplicity and high performance, are the most practical means of meeting the requirements. We describe our design for the Lobster-ISS imaging detector based on direct-imaging micro-well proportional counters and the expected performance.
@article{arxiv.physics/0305025,
title = {The imaging X-ray detector for Lobster-ISS},
author = {J. K. Black and A. N. Brunton and N. P. Bannister and P. Deines-Jones and K. Jahoda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0305025},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To be published in NIM A. Presented at the sixth international conference on position sensitive detectors (PSD6)