HR: 10:45h
AN: SP12A-02    [Abstracts]
TI: Cryogenic 3-D Detectors for Solar Physics
AU: * Stern, R A
EM: stern@lmsal.com
AF: LMSAL, Dept. ADBS Bldg. 252 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304 United States
AU: Martinez-Galarce, D
EM: denmart@lmsal.com
AF: LMSAL, Dept. ADBS Bldg. 252 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304 United States
AU: Rausch, A
EM: rausch@lmsal.com
AF: LMSAL, Dept. ADBS Bldg. 252 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304 United States
AU: Shing, L
EM: shing@lmsal.com
AF: LMSAL, Dept. ADBS Bldg. 252 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304 United States
AU: Deiker, S
EM: deiker@lmsal.com
AF: LMSAL, Dept. ADBS Bldg. 252 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304 United States
AU: Boerner, P
EM: boerner@lmsal.com
AF: LMSAL, Dept. ADBS Bldg. 252 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304 United States
AU: Metcalf, T
EM: metcalf@lmsal.com
AF: LMSAL, Dept. ADBS Bldg. 252 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304 United States
AU: Cabrera, B
EM: cabrera@stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, Physics Department, Stanford, CA 94305 United States
AU: Leman, S W
EM: swleman@stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, Physics Department, Stanford, CA 94305 United States
AU: Brink, P
EM: pbrink@hep.stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, Physics Department, Stanford, CA 94305 United States
AU: Irwin, K
EM: irwin@boulder.nist.gov
AF: NIST, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305-3328 United States
AU: Alexander, D
EM: dalex@rice.edu
AF: Rice University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005 United States
AB: Cryogenic microcalorimeters operating in the sub-Kelvin temperature range provide non-dispersive energy resolution at optical through gamma ray energies (e.g, E/Δ E ~ 1500 at 6 keV). Microcalorimeters also have high time resolution (msec or better), and can be made into imaging arrays through SQUID multiplexing of individual pixels or employing position sensitive detector structures. The application of such "3-D" detector technology to solar physics will lead to significant advances in our understanding of magnetic reconnection in the Sun, including X-ray jet phenomena, and active region heating and dynamics. An Explorer-class solar mission within the next 5-10 years, based upon these detectors, is rapidly becoming technically feasible. LMSAL currently has an internally funded laboratory research program to investigate TES (Transition Edge Sensor) microcalorimeters; we recently saw our first X-ray photons using TES detectors supplied by NIST. In addition, we have recently been funded by NASA to begin work with NIST on position-sensitive X-ray strip detectors for solar physics applications. Finally, we are collaborating with with Stanford and NIST on a solar sounding rocket. In this presentation, we will discuss the current status of these programs and their applicability to future Explorer missions and Roadmap missions such as RAM.
DE: 7509 Corona
DE: 7519 Flares
DE: 7554 X rays, gamma rays, and neutrinos
DE: 7594 Instruments and techniques
SC: Solar Physics Division - AAS [SP]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly