Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is presently developing an X-ray spectrometer (XRS) to be flown aboard the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF). XRS uses an array of 32 microcalorimeters, capable of detecting X-rays in the energy range of 0.3-10 keV with a resolution of 12 eV. In order to
Development of an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator for SIRTF
โ Scribed by P.T. Timbie; G.M. Bernstein; P.L. Richards
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 513 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0011-2275
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