NICER Documentation

NICER Mission Documentation

• NASA's NICER Fact Sheet


• The NICER Mission Guide


• The NICER Analysis Guide
  (Overview of Tools)


• NICER Analysis Page
  (Analysis Threads, Software User Guide, Analysis Tips)


• The NICER Calibration Documents


• The NICER Proposer's Guide


• NICER Science Results


• Weekly NICER Science Nuggets as reported to the ISS


• NICER's Project Data Management Plan (PDMP)

NICER Mission Publications

• " Searching for a Pulse" an overview of NICER, by K. Gendreau and Z. Arzoumanian, Nature Astronomy 1, 895 (2017).


• The Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER): Design and Development: Gendreau, K.C., Arzoumanian, Z. et al. 2016, Proc. SPIE 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 99051H (22 July 2016). (pdf)


• The NICER Instrument Detector Subsystem: Description and Performance: Prigozhin, G., et al. 2016, Proc. SPIE 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 99051H (22 July 2016). ( pdf)


• The Performance of NICER flight x-ray concentrator, Okajima, T., et al. Proc. SPIE 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 99051H (22 July 2016).


• The Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER): Mission Definition: Arzoumanian, Z. et al. 2014, Proc. SPIE 9144, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 914420 (29 July 2014).


• The Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER): An Explorer Mission of Opportunity for Soft X-ray Timing Spectroscopy: Gendreau, Arzoumanian and Okaajima 2012, Proc. SPIE 8443, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 844313 (7 September 2012). (pdf)


• NICER Automated ADS Query A list of NICER publications including refereed and unrefereed articles (ATels, etc.) from July 2012 to present.