Acknowledgements

This document contains the input of a number of people, both within Penn State's X-ray Astronomy Group and without. At the risk of omitting someone (please accept my apologies if I inadvertently left your name out of this list!), I would like to acknowledge the significant contributions of the following people: Gordon Garmire, who helped write the text of §3; Mark Skinner and Jeff Mendenhall, who spent many hours calibrating CUBIC flight detectors and contributed calibration data; Leland Engel, who did the mechanical and electronic engineering work and generated the mechanical drawings, mass properties, and magnet design shown here; Tim Entingh, who did most of the electronics design and associated drawings; Mark Catalano and Roland Green, who did the printed circuit board layouts, board fabrication, cable harness, etc.; Doug Kelly and Pat Broos, who wrote the flight software and accommodated the many last minute changes that were necessary to cope with the change in CCD design; Laura Cawley, who helped evaluate our on-board event recognition algorithm and processed calibration data; Diego Janches, who helped with our thermal vacuum chamber and calibration data; David Lumb, who contributed his expertise in CCDs and CCD event simulation. We appreciate the contributions to this instrument from many people outside of Penn State, including Mario Acuña, who gave us lots of advice and assistance with electronics and magnet design, radiation hardness, etc.; Jim Janesick, Paul Vu, and Dick Bredthauer, who collaborated with us on the design of a CCD at Loral that was intended to be used on CUBIC , and which taught us a lot even though production problems prevented us from flying it; Peter Pool at EEV and Andrew Holland at Leicester, who bent over backwards to help us build and test replacement CCDs; and Daniel Caruso and all of our friends at CONAE and INVAP who designed and built SAC-B . And finally, our thanks to Gil Ousley and Mario Gulich, who worked so hard in the early days of SAC-B to see it off to a successful beginning.