Discarding piled-up events in ACIS

Patrick Sean Broos; Leisa K. Townsley; John A. Nousek

doi:10.1117/12.331251

19 November 1998 Discarding piled-up events in ACIS

Patrick Sean Broos, Leisa K. Townsley, John A. Nousek

Proceedings Volume 3444, X-Ray Optics, Instruments, and Missions; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.331251
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The coincidence of multiple x-rays in a detection cell within one CCD frame - an effect known as pile-up - is a significant source of spectral contamination for bright sources observed with the AXAF CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). Investigation of algorithms for correcting contaminated spectra is underway. In case where such algorithms fail, the observer may wish to discard events for the core of the AXAF point spread function (PSF), computing spectra using only events from the PSF wings, where pile-up effects are reduced. This work investigates the effectiveness of this technique for an isolated on-axis point source, using event lists produced by a Monte Carlo simulation of the ACIS instrument.

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Patrick Sean Broos, Leisa K. Townsley, and John A. Nousek "Discarding piled-up events in ACIS", Proc. SPIE 3444, X-Ray Optics, Instruments, and Missions, (19 November 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.331251

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