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http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8771| Title: | The C1XS X-ray spectrometer on Chandrayaan-1 |
| Authors: | Maddison, BJ Howe, CJ Kellett, BJ Sreekumar, P Huovelin, J Crawford, IA Duston, CL Smith, D Anand, M Bhandari, N Cook, A Fernandes, V Foing, B Gasnaut, O Goswami, JN Holland, A Joy, KH Kochney, D Lawrence, D Maurice, S Okada, T Narendranath, S Pieters, C Rothery, D Russell, SS Shrivastava, A Swinyard, B Wilding, M Wieczorek, M |
| Keywords: | Moon;Lunar composition;X-ray spectroscopy;Chandrayaan-1;Space instrumentation |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Citation: | Planetary and Space Science, 57(7), 717 - 724, 2009 |
| Abstract: | The Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) is a compact X-ray spectrometer for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission. It exploits heritage from the D-CIXS instrument on ESA's SMART-1 mission. As a result of detailed developments to all aspects of the design, its performance as measured in the laboratory greatly surpasses that of D-CIXS. In comparison with SMART-1, Chandrayaan-1 is a science-oriented rather than a technology mission, leading to far more favourable conditions for science measurements. C1XS is designed to measure absolute and relative abundances of major rock-forming elements (principally Mg, Al, Si, Ca and Fe) in the lunar crust with spatial resolution ⩽25 FWHM km, and to achieve relative elemental abundances of better than 10%. |
| Description: | This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Planetary and Space Science. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. Copyright @ 2009 Elsevier B.V. |
| URI: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032063309000415 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8771 |
| DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2009.01.016 |
| ISSN: | 0032-0633 |
| Appears in Collections: | Electronic and Computer Engineering Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers |
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