Calibration of the SphinX experiment at the XACT facility in Palermo

A. Collura
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo Giuseppe S. Vaiana (Italy)

M. Barbera
Univ. degli Studi di Palermo (Italy) and INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo Giuseppe S. Vaiana (Italy)

S. Varisco
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo Giuseppe S. Vaiana (Italy)

G. Calderone and F. Reale
Univ. degli Studi di Palermo (Italy)

S. Gburek, M. Kowalinski, J. Sylwester, M. Siarkowski, J. Bakala, P. Podgorski, W. Trzebinski, S. Plocieniak, and Z. Kordylewski
Space Research Ctr. (Poland)

Abstract

Three of the four detectors of the SphinX experiment to be flown on the Russian mission Coronas-Photon have been measured at the XACT Facility of the Palermo Observatory at several wavelengths in the soft X-ray band. We describe the instrumental set-up and report some measurements. The analysis work to obtain the final calibration is still in progress.