The Wide-Field Imager for IXO: Status and future activities

Lothar Strüder; Florian Aschauer; Mark Bautz; Luca Bombelli; David Burrows; Carlo Fiorini; George Fraser; Sven Herrmann; Eckhard Kendziorra; Markus Kuster; Thomas Laufa; Peter Lechner; Gerhard Lutz; Petra Majewski; Aline Meuris; Matteo Porro; Jonas Reiffers; Rainer Richter; Andrea Santangel; Heike Soltau; Alexander Stefanescu; Chris Tenzer; Johannes Treisb; Hiroshi Tsunemi; Giulio De Vita; Jörn Wilms

doi:10.1117/12.856628

The Wide-Field Imager for IXO: Status and future activities

Lothar Strüder
, Florian Aschauer
, Mark Bautz
, Luca Bombelli
, David Burrows
, Carlo Fiorini
, George Fraser
, Sven Herrmann
, Eckhard Kendziorra
, Markus Kuster
, Thomas Laufa
, Peter Lechner
, Gerhard Lutz
, Petra Majewski
, Aline Meuris
, Matteo Porro
, Jonas Reiffers
, Rainer Richter
, Andrea Santangel
, Heike Soltau

Alexander Stefanescu, Chris Tenzer, Johannes Treisb, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Giulio De Vita, Jörn Wilms

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Abstract

The Wide Field Imager (WFI) of the International X-ray Observatory (IXO) is an X-ray imaging spectrometer based on a large monolithic DePFET (Depleted P-channel Field Effect Transistor) Active Pixel Sensor. Filling an area of 10 × 10 cm² with a format of 1024 × 1024 pixels it will cover a field of view of 18 arcmin. The pixel size of 100 × 100 μm ² corresponds to a fivefold oversampling of the telescope's expected 5 arcsec point spread function. The WFI's basic DePFET structure combines the functionalities of sensor and integrated amplifier with nearly Fano-limited energy resolution and high efficiency from 100 eV to 15 keV. The development of dedicated control and amplifier ASICs allows for high frame rates up to 1 kHz and flexible readout modes. Results obtained with representative prototypes with a format of 256 × 256 pixels are presented.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010
Subtitle of host publication	Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856628
State	Published - 2010
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: Jun 28 2010 → Jul 2 2010

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	7732
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Other	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	6/28/10 → 7/2/10

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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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Strüder, L., Aschauer, F., Bautz, M., Bombelli, L., Burrows, D., Fiorini, C., Fraser, G., Herrmann, S., Kendziorra, E., Kuster, M., Laufa, T., Lechner, P., Lutz, G., Majewski, P., Meuris, A., Porro, M., Reiffers, J., Richter, R., Santangel, A., ... Wilms, J. (2010). The Wide-Field Imager for IXO: Status and future activities. In Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray Article 77321I (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7732). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856628

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The Wide-Field Imager for IXO: Status and future activities. / Strüder, Lothar; Aschauer, Florian; Bautz, Mark et al.
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. 2010. 77321I (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7732).

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