Focal Plane of the Arcus Probe X-Ray Spectrograph
Catherine E. Grant, Marshall W. Bautz, Eric D. Miller, Richard F., Foster, Beverly LaMarr, Andrew Malonis, Gregory Prigozhin, Benjamin, Schneider, Christopher Leitz, Abraham D. Falcone
TL;DR
The paper details the design and laboratory performance of the CCD-based focal plane instrument for the Arcus Probe X-ray Spectrograph, enabling high-resolution soft X-ray and UV spectroscopy for astrophysical research.
Contribution
It introduces the Arcus focal plane instrument and presents laboratory performance results of the CCDs meeting observatory specifications.
Findings
CCD focal plane design meets performance requirements
Laboratory tests confirm detector sensitivity and resolution
Instrument readiness for space deployment
Abstract
The Arcus Probe mission concept provides high-resolution soft X-ray and UV spectroscopy to reveal feedback-driven structure and evolution throughout the universe with an agile response capability ideal for probing the physics of time-dependent phenomena. The X-ray Spectrograph (XRS) utilizes two nearly identical CCD focal planes to detect and record X-ray photons from the dispersed spectra and zero-order of the critical angle transmission gratings. In this paper we describe the Arcus focal plane instrument and the CCDs, including laboratory performance results, which meet observatory requirements.
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