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J. Spodek
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 12
Citations - 995
J. Spodek is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Grating & Spectrometer. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 11 publications receiving 943 citations.
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The Reflection Grating Spectrometer on board XMM-Newton
J. W. den Herder,A. C. Brinkman,Steven M. Kahn,Graziella Branduardi-Raymont,Knud Thomsen,H. Aarts,Marc Audard,Jay V. Bixler,A. J. F. den Boggende,Jean Cottam,T. Decker,L. Dubbeldam,Christian Erd,H. Goulooze,Manuel Güdel,P. Guttridge,Charles J. Hailey,K. Al Janabi,Jelle Kaastra,P. A. J. de Korte,B. J. van Leeuwen,Christopher W. Mauche,A. J. McCalden,R. Mewe,A. Naber,F. B. S. Paerels,John R. Peterson,A. P. Rasmussen,K. Rees,I. Sakelliou,Masao Sako,J. Spodek,Marcela Stern,Takayuki Tamura,J. Tandy,C. de Vries,S. Welch,Alex Zehnder +37 more
TL;DR: The Reflection Grating Spectrometers (RGS) as discussed by the authors was designed for the detection of the K-shell transitions of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, magnesium, and silicon.
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Reflection grating arrays for the Reflection Grating Spectrometer on board XMM
Steven M. Kahn,Jean Cottam,Todd A. Decker,Frits Paerels,Steven M. Pratuch,Andrew P. Rasmussen,J. Spodek,Jay V. Bixler,A. C. Brinkman,Jan-Willem den Herder,Christian Erd +10 more
TL;DR: The reflection grating spectrometer (RGS) as mentioned in this paper on board the XMM mission incorporates an array of reflection gratings oriented at grazing incidence in the x-ray optical path immediately behind a grazing incidence telescope.
The Reflection Grating Spectrometer onboard XMM
A. C. Brinkman,H. Aarts,A. J. F. den Boggende,T. M. V. Bootsma,L. Dubbeldam,J. W. den Herder,Jelle Kaastra,P. A. J. de Korte,B. J. van Leeuwen,R. Mewe,F. B. S. Paerels,C. P. de Vries,Jean Cottam,T. Decker,S. M. Kahn,A. P. Rasmussen,J. Spodek,Graziella Branduardi-Raymont,P. Guttridge,Knud Thomsen,Alex Zehnder,Manuel Guedel +21 more
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Performance characterization of the reflection grating arrays (RGA) for the RGS experiment aboard XMM
Andrew P. Rasmussen,Jean Cottam,Todd A. Decker,Steven M. Kahn,J. Spodek,Marcela Stern,Christian Erd,Antonius J. F. den Boggende,A. C. Brinkman,Jan-Willem den Herder,Frits Paerels,Cor P. de Vries +11 more
TL;DR: The Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) onboard XMM is a large collecting area, dispersive soft x-ray spectrometer providing high resolution and a bandpass of 5-35 angstrom as discussed by the authors.
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Description and performance of the reflection grating spectrometer on board of XMM-Newton
Jan-Willem den Herder,Antonius J. F. den Boggende,Graziella Branduardi-Raymont,A. C. Brinkman,Jean Cottam,L. Dubbeldam,Christian Erd,Manuel Guedel,Jelle Kaastra,Steven M. Kahn,R. Mewe,Frits Paerels,Andrew P. Rasmussen,I. Sakelliou,J. Spodek,Knud Thomsen,Cor P. de Vries +16 more
TL;DR: The ESA X-ray multi-mirror mission XMM-Newton as mentioned in this paper carries two identical Reflection Grating Spectrometers behind two of its three nested sets of Wolter I type mirrors.