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

Eckhard Kendziorra; Edgar Bihler; Michael Colli; Marcus Kirsch; Markus Kuster; Bernhard Pflueger; Ruediger Staubert; Heinrich W. Braeuninger; Ulrich G. Briel; Konrad Dennerl; Frank Haberl; Gisela D. Hartner; Norbert Meidinger; Elmar Pfeffermann; Claus Reppin; Lothar Strueder; Joachim E. Truemper; Peter Holl; Josef Kemmer; Heike Soltau; Christoph von Zanthier

doi:10.1117/12.330303

10 November 1998 Calibration and preliminary results on the performance of the XMM EPIC PN camera: timing modes

Eckhard Kendziorra, Edgar Bihler, Michael Colli, Marcus Kirsch, Markus Kuster, Bernhard Pflueger, Ruediger Staubert, Heinrich W. Braeuninger, Ulrich G. Briel, Konrad Dennerl, Frank Haberl, Gisela D. Hartner, Norbert Meidinger, Elmar Pfeffermann, Claus Reppin, Lothar Strueder, Joachim E. Truemper, Peter Holl, Josef Kemmer, Heike Soltau, Christoph von Zanthier

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Proceedings Volume 3445, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy IX; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.330303
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The pm-CCD camera is one of the three focal plane instruments of the European Photon Imaging Camera (EPIC) on board the x-ray multi mirror (XMM) mission scheduled for launch in August 1999. The detector consists of four quadrants of three pn-CCDs each, which are integrate don one 4 inch silicon wafer. Each CCD has 200 by 64 pixels with 280 micrometers depletion depth. One CCD of a quadrant is readout at a time, while the four quadrants can be processed independently of each other. Observations of point sources brighter than 11 mCrab in imaging mode will be effected by photon pile-up. However, special operating modes can be used to observe bright sources up to 150 mCrab in Timing Mode with 30 microsecond(s) time resolution and very bright sources up to several Crab in Burst Mode with 7 microsecond(s) time resolution. We have tested and calibrate the flight model FM of the EPIC pn-CCD camera at the long beam test facility Panter near Munich and at the synchrotron monochromators of the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, France. In this paper describe the calibration of the pn-CCD detector in high time resolution/bright source operating modes and present preliminary results on the performance in these modes.

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Eckhard Kendziorra, Edgar Bihler, Michael Colli, Marcus Kirsch, Markus Kuster, Bernhard Pflueger, Ruediger Staubert, Heinrich W. Braeuninger, Ulrich G. Briel, Konrad Dennerl, Frank Haberl, Gisela D. Hartner, Norbert Meidinger, Elmar Pfeffermann, Claus Reppin, Lothar Strueder, Joachim E. Truemper, Peter Holl, Josef Kemmer, Heike Soltau, and Christoph von Zanthier "Calibration and preliminary results on the performance of the XMM EPIC PN camera: timing modes", Proc. SPIE 3445, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, (10 November 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.330303

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