Spectral response of the EPIC-pn detector: basic dependences
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
One of the three cameras behind the X-ray telescopes on board XMM-Newton is equipped with a pn CCD detector. Here the current status of the pn spectral response calibration is summarized. Several parameters describing the spectral response of the EPIC-pn detector show spatial dependencies. E.g. spectral resolution and single- to double-pixel event ratios are functions of the charge transfer losses and therefore depend on the distance to the read-out node of the CCD (the RAWY detector coordinate).
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0203235,
title = {Spectral response of the EPIC-pn detector: basic dependences},
author = {F. Haberl and U. G. Briel and K. Dennerl and V. E. Zavlin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0203235},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 6 figures, To appear in the Proceedings of the Symposium on `New Visions of the X-ray Universe in the XMM-Newton and Chandra Era', 26-30 November 2001, ESTEC, The Netherlands