Updating the Chandra HETGS Efficiencies using In-Orbit Observations
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2015-06-12 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
The efficiencies of the gratings in the High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) were updated using in-flight observations of bright continuum sources. The procedure first involved verifying that fluxes obtained from the +1 and -1 orders match, which checks that the contaminant model and the CCD quantum efficiencies agree. Then the fluxes derived using the high energy gratings (HEGs) were compared to those derived from the medium energy gratings (MEGs). The flux ratio was fit to a low order polynomial, which was allocated to the MEGs above 1 keV or the HEGs below 1 keV. The resultant efficiencies were tested by examining fits to blazar spectra.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1211.0017,
title = {Updating the Chandra HETGS Efficiencies using In-Orbit Observations},
author = {Herman L. Marshall},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.0017},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages, 7 figures; to appear in the SPIE proceedings, volume 8443