XACT facility - Technical Reports

1. M. Barbera, G. Peres, "Simulated X-Ray Observations of Clusters of Galaxies", 1992, Report presented at the EPIC/XMM (ESA) Plenary meeting, ESTEC 5-7 October 1992.

2. M. Barbera, "Soft X-ray/UV plastic film transmission measurements conducted at the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley: instrumental configuration, measurement techniques, and preliminary results", 1994c, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Internal Report, OAPA-R1-1994, 11 Gennaio, 1994.

3. M. Barbera, "Soft X-ray/UV plastic film transmission measurements conducted at the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley: data reduction, and results", 1994d, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Internal Report, OAPA-R2-1994, 10 Febbraio, 1994.

4. M. Barbera, A. Collura, S. Sciortino, S. Serio, "Soft X-ray filter transmission measurements conducted at the X-ray Astronomy Calibration and Testing facility of the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S.Vaiana", 1994e, Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S.Vaiana Internal Report, OAPA-R3-1994, 18 Febbraio 1994.

5. M. Barbera, "Soft X-ray/UV transmission measurements iof Parylene-C plastic film", 1994f, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Internal Report, OAPA-R4-1994, 24 Maggio, 1994.

6. M. Barbera, "Simulations of the HRC Ultraviolet count-rate due to bright UV sources", 1994g, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Internal Report, OAPA-R5-1994, 11 Giugno, 1994.

7. M. Barbera, A. Collura, "Soft X-ray plastic film transmission measurements conducted at the XACT facility of the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S.Vaiana", 1994h, Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S.Vaiana Internal Report, OAPA-R6-1994, 17 Giugno, 1994.

8. M. Barbera, A. Collura, A. Dara, "Preliminary soft X-ray transmission measurements of HRC imaging UV/Ion shield HRC-1007-1 Rev B S/N # 002", 1995b, Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S.Vaiana Internal Report, OAPA-R3-1995, 31 Ottobre, 1995.

9. M. Barbera, A. Collura, A. Dara, "Synchrotron X-ray transmission measurements of Lexan and Lexan+Aluminum samples at BESSY: preliminary report", 1996c, Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S.Vaiana Internal Report, OAPA-R1-1996, 12 Febbraio, 1996.

10. M. Barbera, A. Collura, "UV transmission measurements on two JET-X test filter samples", 1996d, Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S. Vaiana Internal Report, OAPA-R7-1996, 30 ottobre 1996.

11. M. Barbera, A. Collura, S. Jouteux, "Preliminary results on X-ray shadowgraphs conducted at the XACT facility on test thin and medium filters for EPIC-XMM", 1996e, Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S. Vaiana Internal Report, OAPA-R5-1996, September 23, 1996.

12. M. Barbera, A. Collura, A. Dara, "Preliminary UV transmission measurements of HRC imaging UV/Ion shield HRC-1007-1 Rev B S/N 002", 1996f, Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S. Vaiana Internal Report, OAPA-R3-1996, March 22 1996.

13. M. Barbera, M. Cannas, A. Collura, F. Gelardi, "VUV absorption measurements of silica samples at the XACT facility", 1997b, Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S. Vaiana Internal Report, OAPA-R2-1997, 24 Aprile 1997.

14. S.M. Murray (P.I.), M.V. Zombeck (Report editor), J.H. Chappell, A.T. Kenter, K. Kobayashi, R.P. Kraft, G.R. Meehan, H. Donnelly, M. Juda, D. Patnaude, D. Pease, A.N. Brunton, G.W. Fraser, J.E. Lees, S.E. Pearce, J.F. Pearson, R.M. Rideout, M. Barbera, A. Collura, A. Dara, S. Serio, "HRC ground calibration revision A", 1998, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory-High Resolution Camera-Calibration Report-98-345.