Documents
These documents and presentations will be the most useful to students in the Olin-NASA research group as well as to those students' faculty and scientist mentors. Feel free to browse these docuements and the list of projects to learn more.
Summer 2008
- Goddard SFC Possible Project Presentations
- Chandra X-Ray Observatory Possible Project Presentations
Summer 2007
- Telescope Intro
- History of the Universe Presentation
- Trip to GSFC
- Mirror
- CXRDF
- Flux Meter
Summer 2006
- Calorimetry Presentation
- SNRs Presentation
- Spectroscopy Presentation
- Spectrum Presentation
- Star Presentation
- Stress Map Charts
- X-ray Astrophysics Chapter
Other Selected Readings
- 06-02-04 Steve Holt's PowerPoint Presentation
- 09-23-03 A Novel Beam Mapping Measurement Technique for Cryogenic Detectors
- 08-01-99 Physics Today: Quantum Calorimetry
- 07-21-99 SPIE No. 3765 Papers
- The Astro-E High Resolution X-Ray Spectrometer
- Design and Performance of the Astro-E/XRS Microcalorimeter Array and Anticoincidence Detector
- The Detector Assembly and the Ultra Low Temperature Refrigerator for XRS
- Design and Performance of the Astro-E/XRS Signal Processing
- The Astro-E/XRS Calibration Program and Results
- Astro-E/XRS Blocking Filter Calibration