A Method to Retrieve the Total Flux at Lyman-Alpha in Micro-Channel-Plate Detectors Affected by Gain Sag: Application to the LAMP UV Imaging Spectrograph Onboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Cesare Grava,Thomas K. Greathouse,Kurt D. Retherford,M. W. Davis,G. Randall Gladstone,David E. Kaufmann,Anthony F. Egan

A Method to Retrieve the Total Flux at Lyman-Alpha in Micro-Channel-Plate Detectors Affected by Gain Sag: Application to the LAMP UV Imaging Spectrograph Onboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

2018

Cesare Grava
Thomas K. Greathouse
Kurt D. Retherford
M. W. Davis
G. Randall Gladstone
David E. Kaufmann
Anthony F. Egan

Micro-Channel Plate (MCP) detectors can suffer from a form of degradation known as gain sag in regions with significant fluence. We have developed a method to recover the total Lyman-Alpha (Ly-α) e...

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Detector
Flux
Spectrograph
Orbiter
Physics
Microchannel plate detector
Optics
Fluence
Instrumentation
Materials science
Ultraviolet

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