Center Innovation Fund: GSFC CIF
Microcalorimeters for Solar Observations
Project Description
The technology is especially applicable to sounding rocket missions and maps directly to the proposed Solar Energetic Particle Acceleration and Transport and Heliospheric Magnetics missions. It also is suitable for Japan's future 'Solar C' mission. During the year, the team wrote five white papers about the technology's application and submitted them to support the Heliophysics Decadal Survey. In addition, the group developed three detailed concept missions featuring microcalorimeters and presented those as well to the Decadal panel.
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Anticipated Benefits
With the funding, the team designed, fabricated, and tested large-format closed-packed arrays of TES microcalorimeters on a 75-micron pitch \xd1 the first-ever test of a small TES pixel.
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Primary U.S. Work Locations and Key Partners
| Organizations Performing Work | Role | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
Goddard Space Flight Center
(GSFC)
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Lead Organization | NASA Center | Greenbelt, Maryland |
Primary U.S. Work Locations
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Maryland
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