The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER): design and development

Gendreau, Keith C.; Arzoumanian, Zaven; Adkins, Phillip; Albert, Cheryl L.; Anders, John F.; Aylward, Andrew T.; Baker, C. L.; Balsamo, Erin; Bamford, William; Benegalrao, Suyog S.; Berry, Daniel L.; Bhalwani, Shiraz; Black, J. K.; Blaurock, Carl; Bronke, Ginger M.; Brown, Gary L.; Budinoff, Jason; Cantwell, Jeffrey D.; Cazeau, T.; Chen, Philip T.; Clement, Thomas G.; Colangelo, Andrew T.; Coleman, Jerry S.; Coopersmith, Jonathan D.; Dehaven, William E.; Doty, J.; Egan, Mark; Enoto, Teruaki; Fan, Terry W.; Ferro, Deneen M.; Foster, Richard F.; Galassi, Nicholas; Gallo, Luis D.; Green, Chris; Grosh, Dave; Ha, Kong Q.; Hasouneh, Monther A.; Heefner, Kristofer B.; Hestnes, P.; Hoge, Lisa J.; Jacobs, Tawanda M.; Jørgensen, John Leif; Kaiser, Michael; Kellogg, James; Kenyon, Steven J.; Koenecke, Richard; Kozon, Robert P.; LaMarr, Beverly; Lambertson, M.; Larson, Anne M.; Lentine, Steven; Lewis, Jesse; Lilly, Michael G.; Liu, Kuochia Alice; Malonis, Andrew; Manthripragada, Sridhar; Markwardt, C. B.; Matonak, Bryan D.; Mcginnis, Isaac E.; Miller, Roger; Mitchell, Alissa; Mitchell, Jason W.; Mohammed, Jelila S.; Monroe, Charles; Garcia, Kristina M. Montt de; Mule, Peter; Nagao, Louis T.; Ngo, Son N.; Norris, Eric D.; Norwood, Dwight A.; Novotka, Joseph; Okajima, Takashi; Olsen, Lawrence G.; Onyeachu, Chimaobi O.; Orosco, Henry Y.; Peterson, Jacqualine R.; Pevear, Kristina N.; Pham, Karen; Pollard, S.; Pope, J.; Powers, Daniel F.; Powers, Charles E.; Price, Samuel R.; Prigozhin, G.; Ramirez, Julian B.; Reid, Winston J.; Remillard, Ronald A.; Rogstad, Eric M.; Rosecrans, Glenn P.; Rowe, John; Sager, Jennifer A.; Sanders, Claude A.; Savadkin, Bruce J.; Saylor, M.; Schaeffer, Alexander F.; Schweiss, Nancy S.; Semper, Sean R.; Serlemitsos, P. J.; Shackelford, Larry V.; Soong, Yang; Struebel, Jonathan; Vezie, Michael; Villasenor, Joel S.; Winternitz, Luke B.; Wofford, George I.; Wright, Michael; Yang, Mike Y.; Yu, Wayne H.

doi:10.1117/12.2231304

articleProceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIEJul 22, 2016BRONZE OA

The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER): design and development

KCKeith C. Gendreau ZAZaven Arzoumanian PAPhillip Adkins CLCheryl L. Albert JFJohn F. Anders

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Abstract

During 2014 and 2015, NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission proceeded success- fully through Phase C, Design and Development. An X-ray (0.2-12 keV) astrophysics payload destined for the International Space Station, NICER is manifested for launch in early 2017 on the Commercial Resupply Services SpaceX-11 flight. Its scientific objectives are to investigate the internal structure, dynamics, and energetics of neutron stars, the densest objects in the universe. During Phase C, flight components including optics, detectors, the optical bench, pointing actuators, electronics, and others were subjected to environmental testing and integrated to form the flight payload. A custom-built…

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