Northwestern University

Parent Unit Name

Login

LIBRARIES | ARCH

Menu Search

Start Over

Filtering by: Resource type Dissertation Subject Astrophysics Subject Low temperature physics

1 entry found

List Gallery Masonry Slideshow

Micro-X Sounding Rocket First Flight and Modifications for Second Flight

Description:

Micro-X is a high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy sounding rocket mission that had its first flight in July 2018, becoming the first program to carry Transition-Edge Sensors (TES) and multiplexing Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) readout electronics into space, successfully collect data, and subsequently recover the instruments. While a rocket pointing failure...

Keyword:

TES, Sounding Rocket, Microcalorimeter, SQUID multiplexing, and X-ray

Subject:

Astrophysics, Physics, and Low temperature physics

Creator:

Manzagol-Harwood, Renee Elisabeth

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/16/2023

Date Created:

2022-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_937247 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16308