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Thermal Detectors for X-ray Astronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Stephen S. Holt
Stephen S. Holt*
Affiliation:
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA

Abstract

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Spectroscopy is traditionally characterized by the sacrifice of quantum efficiency for high spectral resolution. Since X-ray astronomy is a photon-limited discipline, the choice between high resolution for very few sources versus much lower resolution for many more has not always been an easy one. The development of new thermal detectors offers the opportunity to “have one’s cake and eat it, too.”

Type
9. Future X-ray Observatories, Detectors and Instrumentation
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 115: High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of Cosmic Plasmas , 1990 , pp. 346 - 356
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990