Calibration and preliminary results on the performance of the XMM EPIC PN flight camera:: imaging modes

被引：5

作者：

Briel, UG ^{[1
]}

Bräuninger, H ^{[1
]}

Dennerl, K ^{[1
]}

Greiveldinger, C ^{[1
]}

Haberl, F ^{[1
]}

Hartner, G ^{[1
]}

Meidinger, N ^{[1
]}

Krause, N ^{[1
]}

Popp, M ^{[1
]}

Pfeffermann, E ^{[1
]}

Reppin, C ^{[1
]}

Stadelbauer, T ^{[1
]}

Strüder, L ^{[1
]}

Trümper, J ^{[1
]}

Bihler, E ^{[1
]}

Grubmiller, W ^{[1
]}

Kendziorra, E ^{[1
]}

Kirsch, M ^{[1
]}

Kuster, M ^{[1
]}

Pflüger, B ^{[1
]}

Holl, P ^{[1
]}

Kemmer, J ^{[1
]}

Soltau, H ^{[1
]}

von Zanthier, C ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Max Planck Inst Extraterr Phys, MPE, D-84740 Garching, Germany

来源：

EUV, X-RAY, AND GAMMA-RAY INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY IX | 1998年 / 3445卷

关键词：

XMM; pn-CCD; X-ray detectors; X-ray calibration;

D O I：

10.1117/12.330294

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The X-ray Multi Mirror (XMM) Mission, the second cornerstone of the European Space Agency's Horizon 2000 programme, mill be launched in August 1999 and will perform high throughput imaging and spectroscopy in the energy range from 0.1 to 15 keV. One of the focal plane instruments is the EPIC pn CCD camera with a sensitive area of 60 mm x 60 mm, integrated on a single silicon wafer. The camera is divided into 4 redundant quadrants of three 10 mm x 30 mm CCDs with 64 x 200 pixels each. The thin entrance window in combination with a depletion depth of 280 mu m results in a quantum efficiency of more than 80% in the energy range from 0.27 to 10 keV. Different read out modes give the flexibility to observe targets of different source strength up to several Crab with some reduction in spectral and spatial performance. We will report on the calibration of the flight unit of the EPIC pn camera, performed at the long beam test facility Panter in Munchen and at the Synchrotron Radiation Facility beam lines at the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS) in Orsay. In this paper we describe the preliminary results of the calibration of the imaging modes (full frame mode and window mode).

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