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A hard x-ray, high-speed, high dynamic range scientific x-ray imager is described. The imager is based on the mixed-mode pixel array detector (MM-PAD) readout chip coupled to a 750 micron thick cadmium telluride (CdTe) sensor. The full…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 Hugh T. Philipp , Mark W. Tate , Katherine S. Shanks , Prafull Purohit , Sol M. Gruner

We present the first observations of quiescent active regions (ARs) using NuSTAR, a focusing hard X-ray telescope capable of studying faint solar emission from high temperature and non-thermal sources. We analyze the first directly imaged…

B2 1023+25 is an extremely radio-loud quasar at z=5.3 which was first identified as a likely high-redshift blazar candidate in the SDSS+FIRST quasar catalog. Here we use the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) to investigate its…

To provide the census of the sources contributing to the X-ray background peak above 10 keV, NuSTAR is performing extragalactic surveys using a three-tier "wedding cake" approach. We present the NuSTAR survey of the COSMOS field, the medium…

A high-granularity telescope system with a large sensitive area and low material budget has been developed for high-energy heavy ion beam tests. The telescope consists of nine layers of silicon microstrip detectors (SSDs), whose performance…

We report on observations of NGC1068 with NuSTAR, which provide the best constraints to date on its $>10$~keV spectral shape. We find no strong variability over the past two decades, consistent with its Compton-thick AGN classification. The…

We report on Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) hard X-ray observations of the young rotation-powered radio pulsar PSR B1509$-$58 in the supernova remnant MSH 15$-$52. We confirm the previously reported curvature in the hard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 Ge Chen , Hongjun An , Victoria M. Kaspi , Fiona A. Harrison , Kristin K. Madsen , Daniel Stern

Nearby galaxy surveys have long classified X-ray binaries (XRBs) by the mass category of their donor stars (high-mass and low-mass). The NuSTAR observatory, which provides imaging data at E $>10$ keV, has enabled the classification of…

A recently released XMM-Newton technical note has revealed a significant calibration issue between NuSTAR and XMM-Newton EPIC, and provided an empirical correction to EPIC effective area. To quantify the bias caused by the calibration issue…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-28 Jia-Lai Kang , Jun-Xian Wang

Using hard (E>10 keV) X-ray observations with NuSTAR, we are able to differentiate between accretion states, and thus compact object types, of neutron stars and black holes in X-ray binaries (XRBs) in M31, our nearest Milky Way-type…

We present the results obtained from a comprehensive timing and spectral study of two high-mass X-ray binary sources using NuSTAR observations. These two sources, IGR J16320-4751 and IGR J16479-4514, were discovered by INTEGRAL and have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-05 Varun , Gayathri Raman

We present measurements of the intensity of the Cosmic X-ray Background (CXB) with the NuSTAR telescope in the 3-20 keV energy range. Our method uses spatial modulation of the CXB signal on the NuSTAR detectors through the telescope's side…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-16 Roman Krivonos , Daniel Wik , Brian Grefenstette , Kristin Madsen , Kerstin Perez , Steven Rossland , Sergey Sazonov , Andreas Zoglauer

We report on the discovery by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J17591-2342, detecting coherent X-ray pulsations…

In the framework of a national funded program for nuclear safety, a first prototype of portable gamma camera was built and tested. It integrates a Caliste-HD CdTe-hybrid detector designed for space X-ray astronomy coupled with a new…

We present here the updated calibration of The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray NuSTAR, which was performed using data on the Crab accumulated over the last 9 years in orbit. The basis for this new calibration contains over 250ks of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Kristin K. Madsen , Karl Forster , Brian W. Grefenstette , Fiona A. Harrison , Hiromasa Miyasaka

Since the initial exploration of soft gamma-ray sky in the 60's, high-energy celestial sources have been mainly characterized through imaging, spectroscopy and timing analysis. Despite tremendous progress in the field, the radiation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 S. Antier , P. Ferrando , O. Limousin , E. Caroli , R. M. Curado da Silva , C. Blondel , R. Chipaux , V. Honkimaki , B. Horeau , P. Laurent , J. M. Maia , A. Meuris , S. Del Sordo , J. B. Stephen

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), launched in June 2012, flies two conical approximation Wolter-I mirrors at the end of a 10.15m mast. The optics are coated with multilayers of Pt/C and W/Si that operate from 3--80 keV.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-09 Kristin K. Madsen , Finn E. Christensen , William W. Craig , Karl W. Forster , Brian W. Grefenstette , Fiona A. Harrison , Hiromasa Miyasaka , Vikram Rana

We present the first joint NuSTAR and NICER observations of the ultra-compact X-ray binary (UCXB) 4U 1543$-$624 obtained in 2020 April. The source was at a luminosity of $L_{0.5-50\ \mathrm{keV}} = 4.9 (D/7\ \mathrm{kpc})^{2}\times10^{36}$…

The hard X-ray sky now being studied by INTEGRAL and Swift and soon by NuSTAR is rich with energetic phenomena and highly variable non-thermal phenomena on a broad range of timescales. The High Energy Telescope (HET) on the proposed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Hong , J. Grindlay , B. Allen , G. Skinner , S. Barthelmy , N. Gehrels , A. Garson , H. Krawczynski , W. Cook , F. Harrison , L. Natalucci , P. Ubertini , the EXIST/HET team