Abstract
The Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) will be launched as part of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chandrayaan-1 payload in September 2008, arriving at the Moon within 7 days to begin a two year mission in lunar orbit conducting mineralogical surface mapping over the range of 1 - 10 keV. The detector plane of the instrument consists of twenty four e2v technologies CCD54 swept-charge devices (SCDs). Such devices were first flown in the Demonstration of a Compact Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (D-CIXS) instrument onboard SMART-1 [4, 5]. The detector plane in each case provides a total X-ray collection area of 26.4 cm2. The SCD is capable of providing near Fano-limited spectroscopy at -10 °C, and at -20 °C, near the Chandrayaan-1 mission average temperature, it achieves a total system noise of 6.2 electrons r.m.s. and a FWHM of 134 eV at Mn-K?. This paper presents a brief overview of the C1XS mission and a detailed study of the effects of proton irradiation on SCD operational performance.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of SPIE |
| Subtitle of host publication | High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy III |
| Pages | 789-789 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Volume | 7021 |
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| Publication status | Published - 22 Jul 2008 |
| Event | SPIE: High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy III - Marseille, Italy Duration: 23 Jun 2008 → 27 Jun 2008 |
Conference
| Conference | SPIE: High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy III |
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| Country/Territory | Italy |
| City | Marseille |
| Period | 23 Jun 2008 → 27 Jun 2008 |
Keywords
- Radiation damage
- Swept-charge device
- SCD
- C1XS
- Chandrayaan-1
- D-CIXS
- Moon
- X-ray