Session 43. Missions and Instruments

Display, Friday, November 10, 2000, 8:00am-6:00pm, Bora Bora Ballroom

43.01 The Astro-EII Mission

H. Inoue (ISAS)

43.02 Current Status of ASCA after its 7.5-Years Observations.

F. Nagase, H. Inoue (ISAS), ASCA Team

43.03 Recent Progress of ASCA SIS Calibration

T. Dotani, A. Yamashita (ISAS), K. Mukai, T. Yaqoob (GSFC), ASCA SIS Team

43.04 High quality images obtained with the Chandra ACIS through introducing of subpixel resolution of the CCD

Koji Mori, H. Tsunemi, E. Miyata, C.J. Baluta (Osaka University), Tsunemi Laboratory Team

43.05 In-flight mid-range effective area calibration of the Chandra low energy transmission grating spectrometer

D. Pease, J.J. Drake (SAO), H.L. Marshall (MIT), C.O. Johnson, V. Kashyap, R.P. Kraft, P.W. Ratzlaff, B.J. Wargelin (SAO), A.C. Brinkman, J.S. Kaastra, R.L.J. van der Meer (SRON), P. Predehl, V. Burwitz (MPE)

43.06 Chandra Grating Efficiencies Based on Ground Calibration Data

P. Ratzlaff, B.J. Wargelin, J.J Drake, C.O. Johnson, D. Pease (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), D. Dewey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Space Research)

43.07 Recent Developments with RXTE ASM Results

A. M. Levine, H. V. Bradt, A. Enevoldsen, E. H. Morgan, R. A. Remillard, L. Wen (CSR, MIT), D. A. Smith (U. Michigan)

43.08 Results from the EPIC-PN Camera on Board XMM-Newton

U.G. Briel (MPE), EPIC-PN Team

43.09 Timing Calibration of the USA Experiment

P. S. Ray, K. S. Wood, R. M. Bandyopadhyay, G. Fritz, P. Hertz, M. P. Kowalski, M. N. Lovellette, M. T. Wolff, D. Yentis (E. O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory), E. Bloom, W. Focke, B. Giebels, G. Godfrey, K.T. Reilly, P. Saz Parkinson, G. Shabad (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University), J. Scargle (NASA/ Ames Research Center, Moffett Field), D. Backer, A. Somer (Astronomy Department, U. of California, Berkeley), USA Experiment Science Working Group

43.10 Development of A Hybrid X-ray Camera at Kyoto University

T.G. Tsuru, A. Bamba, K. Imanishi, M. Kohon, H. Murakami, M. Tsujimoto, T. Tanimori, K. Koyama (Kyoto Univ.)

43.11 H.E.S.S.- The High Energy Stereoscopic System

F.A. Aharonian (MPI-K, Heidelberg), H.E.S.S. Collaboration

43.12 Spectroscopy and Imaging Performance of the Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT)

E. Aprile (Columbia University), LXeGRIT Collaboration

43.13 SuperAGILE: the X-ray Monitor for AGILE

E. Costa, E. Del Monte, M. Feroci, I. Lapshov, M. Rapisarda, P. Soffitta (IAS/CNR - Rome, Italy), G. Barbiellini, M. Prest, E. Vallazza (INFN Trieste, Italy), S. Mereghetti, M. Tavani, S. Vercellone (IFC/CNR, Milan, Italy)

43.14 Using Swift--the new GRB MIDEX Mission

F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC), M. Chester (PSU), and the Swift Team

43.15 The Swift Burst Alert Telescope

A. Parsons, S. Barthelmy, L. Barbier, N. Gehrels, D. Palmer, J. Tueller (NASA/GSFC), E. Fenimore (Los Alamos National Laboratory), BAT Engineering Team

43.16 The Swift X-ray Telescope

D. N. Burrows (Penn State University), A. Wells (University of Leicester), O. Citterio (Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera), Swift XRT Team

43.17 Cyclone, The Cyclotron/Nuclear Explorer

S. E. Boggs (Space Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), R. P. Lin (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), B. R. Dennis (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), P. Von Ballmoos (Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements), K. Thomsen (Paul Scherrer Institute, Laboratory for Astrophysics), G. Hurford, K. C. Hurley, N. W. Madden, D. M. Smith (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), P. Jean, J. Knoedelseder (Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements)

43.18 Cruise Science with the Compact X-ray Spectrometer (D-CIXS) of SMART-1

O. Vilhu, P. Muhli, J. Huovelin (Univ.Helsinki), P. Hakala (Univ.Turku), D.C. Hannikainen (Univ.Southampton), M. Grande, B. Kellett (RAL)

43.19 The TIGRE Instrument for Intermediate-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy

T. J. O'Neill, D. Blattacharya, D. D. Dixon, V. Kong, C. Minor, T. Miyagi, M. Polsen, A. D. Zych (Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside), J. Samimi (Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran), A. Akyüz (University of Cukurova, Adana, Turkey)

43.20 The Beam Test Engineering Model for the GLAST Large Area Telescope

E. do Couto e Silva (Stanford University), GLAST Collaboration

43.21 Construction and Testing of an Engineering Model of the GLAST Silicon Tracker

T. Handa (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University), GLAST Collaboration

43.22 The Construction and Performance of the CsI Hodoscopic Calorimeter for the GLAST Beam Test Engineering Module

W. N. Johnson, J. E. Grove (NRL), B. F. Phlips (Geo. Mason Univ.), J. Ampe (Praxis, Inc), S. Singh (NASA/GSFC), E. Ponslet (Hytec, Inc.)

43.23 10-100 MeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy with GLAST

A. D. Zych, D. Bhattachary, D. D. Dixon, T. J. O'Neill (Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside), J. Samimi (Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran), A. Akyüz (University of Cukurova, Adana, Turkey)

43.24 InFOCuS Balloon-borne Hard X-Ray Experiment with Multilayer Supermirror X-ray Telescope

Y. Tawara, K. Yamashita, Y. Ogasaka, K. Tamura, K. Haga, T. Okajima, S. Ichimaru, S. Takahasi, A. Gotou, H. Kitou, S. Fukuda (Nagoya University), H. Kuneida (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science), Y. Tsusaka (Himeji Institute of Technology), J. Tueller, P. J. Serlemitsos, Y. Soong, K.W. Chan, S.M. Owens, F. Berendse (NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr.), B. Barber, E. Dereniak, E. Young (University of Arizona)

43.25 \emph{B-MINE } The Balloon-Borne Microcalorimeter Nuclear Line Explorer Mission

E. Silver (Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics), Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Collaboration, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Collaboration, University of California at Berkeley Collaboration, Osservatoria Astronomico G.S. Vaiana Collaboration, Danish Space Research Institute Collaboration, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Collaboration, University of California at Santa Cruz Collaboration, Max-Plank-Institut fuer Extraterrestriche Physik Collaboration, Brown University Collaboration, Univeridad de Valencia Collaboration, INTA/Laboratorio De Astrofisica Espacial Y Fisica Fundamental Collaboration

43.26 The ASTRO-E/XRS blocking filter calibration

M. D. Audley (ISAS), K. A. Arnaud (Univ. of Maryland / GSFC), K. C. Gendreau, K. R. Boyce, C. M. Fleetwood, R. L. Kelley, R. A. Keski-Kuha, F. S. Porter, C. K. Stahle, A. E. Szymkowiak, J. L. Tveekrem (NASA / GSFC), R. Fujimoto, K. Mitsuda (ISAS), Y. Ishisaki (Tokyo Metropolitan University), T. Mihara (RIKEN)

43.27 Laboratory Astrophysics Using an Electron Beam Ion Trap and a Spare ASTRO-E/XRS Microcalorimeter

K. C. Gendreau (GSFC), P. Beiersdorfer (LLNL), K. R. Boyce (GSFC), G. V. Brown (LLNL), H. Chen (LLNL), M. Chen (LLNL), J. Gygax (GSFC), S. M. Kahn (Columbia), R. L. Kelley (GSFC), D. A. Liedahl (LLNL), F. S. Porter (GSFC), C. K. Stahle (GSFC), A. E. Szymkowiak (GSFC), K. Widmann (LLNL)

43.28 Progress on X-Ray Microcalorimeters for High Resolution X-Ray Spectroscop y

R.L. Kelley, K.R. Boyce (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Galeazzi (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin), K.C. Gendreau (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), W. Liao, D. Liu, D. McCammon (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin), S.H. Moseley, F.S. Porter, C.K. Stahle, A.E. Szymkowiak (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), P. Tan (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin)

43.29 The Development of TES X-ray Calorimeter Array Systems Suitable for Constellation-X

C. K. Stahle, K. R. Boyce (GSFC), S. Deiker (NIST Boulder), E. Figueroa-Feliciano, F. M. Finkbeiner, K. C. Gendreau (GSFC), G. C. Hilton, K. D. Irwin (NIST Boulder), R. L. Kelley, M. A. Lindeman (GSFC), J. M. Martinis, S. W. Nam (NIST Boulder), F. S. Porter (GSFC), D. A. Rudman (NIST Boulder), A. E. Szymkowiak (GSFC), D. A. Wollman (NIST Boulder)

43.30 X-ray optics made from thin plastic foils

H. W. Schnopper (Smithsonian Astrophysical Obs.), M. Barbera (Oss. Astro. di Palermo Giuseppe S. Vaiana), R. Ingram, E. Silver, S. Romaine, S. Bandler, S. Murray (Smithsonian Astrophysical Obs.), F. E. Christensen, A. Hussain (Danish Space Research Inst.), A. Collura (Oss. Astro. di Palermo Giuseppe S. Vaiana)

43.31 Beta-ray Diagnosis of Charge-Coupled-Devices

S. Kitamoto, M. Ohta, T. Okada, T. Kohmura, Koji Mori (Osaka University), H. Awaki, K. Tachibana (Ehime University)

43.32 Laboratory Astrophysics Survey Of Key X-Ray Diagnostic Lines Using A Microcalorimeter On An Electron Beam Ion Trap

E. Silver, H. Schnopper, S. Bandler, N. Brickhouse, S. Murray (Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics), M. Barbera (Osservatorio Astronomico G.S. Vaiana), E. Takacs (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), M. Laming (Naval Research Laboratory), I. Kink, J. Porto, J.D. Gillaspy, R. Deslattes, L. Hudson (National Institute of Standards and Technology), N. Madden, D. Landis, J. Beeman, E.E. Haller (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

43.33 Monitoring the Charge Transfer Inefficiency of ACIS and the Impact of the Varying Cosmic-Ray Background

C. E. Grant, B. LaMarr, M. W. Bautz (MIT)

43.34 Segmented Scintillator Arrays for Use in the Minute-of-Arc Resolution Gamma-Ray Imaging Experiment -- MARGIE

S.C. Kappadath, M.L. Cherry, S. Palle, J.G. Stacy (LSU)

43.35 X-ray polarimetry experiment with balloon borne gas proportional counters

K. Hayashida, H. Tsunemi, T. Koike, T. Horikawa (Osaka University), F. Makino (NASDA)