Performance Characteristics Of CCD's For The Acis Experiment

Gordon P. Garmire; John Nousek; David Burrows; George Ricker; Mark Bautz; John Doty; Stewart Collins; James Janesick; Robert W. Mountain; Barry E. Burke

doi:10.1117/12.948709

21 December 1988 Performance Characteristics Of CCD's For The Acis Experiment

Gordon P. Garmire, John Nousek, David Burrows, George Ricker, Mark Bautz, John Doty, Stewart Collins, James Janesick, Robert W. Mountain, Barry E. Burke

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Proceedings Volume 0982, X-Ray Instrumentation in Astronomy II; (1988) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948709
Event: 32nd Annual International Technical Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Science and Engineering, 1988, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) will use two arrays of CCD's to provide X-ray imaging and spectroscopy. Spectroscopy at medium resolution with the imaging array is accomplished by pulse height analysis of each X-ray interaction, while for high spectral resolution, an objective grating disperses the spectrum across a linear array of CCD's to provide a dispersed spectrum where the wavelength resolution is determined by the telescope imaging properties. Performance data for CCD's manufactured by Texas Instruments, MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Ford Aerospace Corp. will be presented. Plans for future CCD enhancements will be discussed.

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Gordon P. Garmire, John Nousek, David Burrows, George Ricker, Mark Bautz, John Doty, Stewart Collins, James Janesick, Robert W. Mountain, and Barry E. Burke "Performance Characteristics Of CCD's For The Acis Experiment", Proc. SPIE 0982, X-Ray Instrumentation in Astronomy II, (21 December 1988); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948709

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