M. Tsujimoto   M. S. Tashiro   Y. Ishisaki   S. Yamada   H. Seta   K. Mitsuda   K. R. Boyce   M. E. Eckart   C. A. Kilbourne   M. A. Leutenegger   F. S. Porter   R. L. Kelley   
Journal of Low Temperature Physics 1-7 2018年3月 [査読有り]
The pulse shape processor is the onboard digital electronics unit of the X-ray microcalorimeter instrument—the soft X-ray spectrometer—onboard the Hitomi satellite. It processes X-ray events using the optimum filtering with limited resources. It w...
Ryuichi Fujimoto   Yoh Takei   Kazuhisa Mitsuda   Noriko Y. Yamasaki   Masahiro Tsujimoto   Shu Koyama   Kumi Ishikawa   Hiroyuki Sugita   Yoichi Sato   Keisuke Shinozaki   Atsushi Okamoto   Shunji Kitamoto   Akio Hoshino   Kosuke Sato   Yuichiro Ezoe   Yoshitaka Ishisaki   Shinya Yamada   Hiromi Seta   Takaya Ohashi   Toru Tamagawa   Hirofumi Noda   Makoto Sawada   Makoto Tashiro   Yoichi Yatsu   Ikuyuki Mitsuishi   Kenichi Kanao   Seiji Yoshida   Mikio Miyaoka   Shoji Tsunematsu   Kiyomi Otsuka   Katsuhiro Narasaki   Michael J. DiPirro   Peter J. Shirron   Gary A. Sneiderman   Caroline A. Kilbourne   Frederick Scott Porter   Meng P. Chiao   Megan E. Eckart   
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 4(1) 2018年1月
The soft x-ray spectrometer (SXS) was a cryogenic high-resolution x-ray spectrometer onboard the Hitomi (ASTRO-H) satellite that achieved energy resolution of 5 eV at 6 keV, by operating the detector array at 50 mK using an adiabatic demagnetizati...
Kilbourne, C.A.   Sawada, M.   Tsujimoto, M.   Angellini, L.   Boyce, K.R.   Eckart, M.E.   Fujimoto, R.   Ishisaki, Y.   Kelley, R.L.   Koyama, S.   Leutenegger, M.A.   Loewenstein, M.   McCammon, D.   Mitsuda, K.   Nakashima, S.   Porter, F.S.   Seta, H.   Takei, Y.   Tashiro, M.S.   Terada, Y.   Yamada, S.   Yamasaki, N.Y.   
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 70(2) 2018年 [査読有り]
The X-Ray Spectrometer (XRS) instrument of Suzaku provided the first measurement of the non-X-ray background (NXB) of an X-ray calorimeter spectrometer, but the data set was limited. The Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS) instrument of Hitomi was able ...
Frederick S. Porter   Kevin R. Boyce   Meng P. Chiao   Megan E. Eckart   Ryuichi Fujimoto   Yoshitaka Ishisaki   Caroline Anne Kilbourne   Maurice A. Leutenegger   Daniel McCammon   Kazuhisa Mitsuda   Kosuke Sato   Hiromi Seta   Makoto Sawada   Gary A. Sneiderman   Andrew E. Szymkowiak   Yoh Takei   Makoto S. Tashiro   Masahiro Tsujimoto   Tomomi Watanabe   Shinya Yamada   
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 4(1) 011218 2018年1月 [査読有り]
The soft x-ray spectrometer (SXS) instrument was launched aboard the Astro-H (Hitomi) observatory on February 17, 2016. The SXS is based on a high-sensitivity x-ray calorimeter detector system that has been successfully deployed in many ground and...
JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS 4(1) 2018年1月 [査読有り]
Fast timing capability in x-ray observation of astrophysical objects is one of the key properties for the ASTRO-H (Hitomi) mission. Absolute timing accuracies of 350 or 35 mu s are required to achieve nominal scientific goals or to study fast vari...