STROBE-X High Energy Modular Array (HEMA)
Anthony L. Hutcheson, Marco Feroci, Andrea Argan, Matias Antonelli,, Marco Barbera, Jorg Bayer, Pierluigi Bellutti, Giuseppe Bertuccio, Valter, Bonvicini, Franck Cadoux, Riccardo Campana, Matteo Centis Vignali, Francesco, Ceraudo, Marc Christophersen, Daniela Cirrincione
TL;DR
The HEMA instrument on the STROBE-X mission offers a large-area, high-throughput X-ray detector with enhanced sensitivity and spectral resolution for broad astrophysical observations in the 2-30 keV range.
Contribution
This paper introduces the HEMA instrument as a novel, high-sensitivity, non-imaging X-ray detector with significant improvements over previous instruments.
Findings
Effective area of 3.4 m² at 8.5 keV
Energy resolution better than 300 eV at 6 keV
Broad energy coverage of 2-30 keV
Abstract
The High Energy Modular Array (HEMA) is one of three instruments that compose the STROBE-X mission concept. The HEMA is a large-area, high-throughput non-imaging pointed instrument based on the Large Area Detector developed as part of the LOFT mission concept. It is designed for spectral timing measurements of a broad range of sources and provides a transformative increase in sensitivity to X-rays in the energy range of 2--30 keV compared to previous instruments, with an effective area of 3.4 m at 8.5 keV and an energy resolution of better than 300 eV at 6 keV in its nominal field of regard.
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Taxonomy
TopicsParticle Detector Development and Performance · Computational Physics and Python Applications · Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems