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

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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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	123-128
Number of pages	6
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	982
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948709
State	Published - Dec 21 1988

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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