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most citedHaloSat -- A CubeSat to Study the Hot Galactic Halo

40 citations · 48 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

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…

physics.app-ph20208 cited

X-ray verification of sol-gel resist shrinkage in substrate-conformal imprint lithography for a replicated blazed reflection grating

Jake A. McCoy, Marc A. Verschuuren, Drew M. Miles +1

Surface-relief gratings fabricated through nanoimprint lithography (NIL) are prone to topographic distortion induced by resist shrinkage. Characterizing the impact of this effect o…

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…

astro-ph.IM201940 cited

HaloSat -- A CubeSat to Study the Hot Galactic Halo

P. Kaaret, A. Zajczyk, D. M. LaRocca +13

HaloSat is a small satellite (CubeSat) designed to map soft X-ray oxygen line emission across the sky in order to constrain the mass and spatial distribution of hot gas in the Milk…

astro-ph.IM2016

Line Spread Functions of Blazed Off-Plane Gratings Operated in the Littrow Mounting

Casey T. DeRoo, Randall L. McEntaffer, Drew M. Miles +13

Future soft X-ray (10 - 50 Angstrom) spectroscopy missions require higher effective areas and resolutions to perform critical science that cannot be done by instruments on current…

astro-ph.IM2015

Performance Testing of a Novel Off-plane Reflection Grating and Silicon Pore Optic Spectrograph at PANTER

Hannah Marlowe, Randall L. McEntaffer, Ryan Allured +12

An X-ray spectrograph consisting of radially ruled off-plane reflection gratings and silicon pore optics was tested at the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics PANTER…