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most citedFabrication of astronomical x-ray reflection gratings using thermally activated selective topography equilibration

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astro-ph.IM2022

A Primer for Telemetry Interfacing in Accordance with NASA Standards Using Low Cost FPGAs

Jake A. McCoy, Ted B. Schultz, James H. Tutt +3

Photon counting detector systems on sounding rocket payloads often require interfacing asynchronous outputs with a synchronously clocked telemetry (TM) stream. Though this can be h…

astro-ph.IM202111 cited

Fabrication of astronomical x-ray reflection gratings using thermally activated selective topography equilibration

Jake A. McCoy, Randall L. McEntaffer, Chad M. Eichfeld

Thermally activated selective topography equilibration (TASTE) enables the creation of 3D structures in resist using grayscale electron-beam lithography followed by a thermal treat…

astro-ph.IM2020

REX: X-ray experiment on the Water Recovery Rocket

Martin Urban, Ondrej Nentvich, Tomas Baca +10

This paper presents Rocket Experiment (REX) that was part of a dual payload rocket campaign for NASA's sounding rocket Black Brant IX with water recovery technology. This mission w…

astro-ph.IM2020

Performance Testing of a Large-Format Reflection Grating Prototype for a Suborbital Rocket Payload

Benjamin D. Donovan, Randall L. McEntaffer, Casey T. DeRoo +8

The soft X-ray grating spectrometer on board the Off-plane Grating Rocket Experiment (OGRE) hopes to achieve the highest resolution soft X-ray spectrum of an astrophysical object w…

astro-ph.IM2020

Limiting Spectral Resolution of a Reflection Grating Made via Electron-Beam Lithography

Casey T. DeRoo, Jared Termini, Fabien Grise +3

Gratings enable dispersive spectroscopy from the X-ray to the optical, and feature prominently in proposed flagships and SmallSats alike. The exacting performance requirements of t…

astro-ph.IM2020

Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Diffraction Efficiency of a Blazed Reflection Grating Fabricated by Thermally Activated Selective Topography Equilibration

Jake A. McCoy, Randall L. McEntaffer, Drew M. Miles

Future observatories utilizing reflection grating spectrometers for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft X-ray (SXR) spectroscopy require high-fidelity gratings with both blazed groo…