Thin-gate front side-illuminated versus back side-illuminated charge-coupled devices for x-ray astronomy

R. P. Kraft; D. N. Burrows; G. P. Garmire; J. A. Nousek

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Thin-gate front side-illuminated versus back side-illuminated charge-coupled devices for x-ray astronomy

R. P. Kraft, D. N. Burrows, G. P. Garmire, J. A. Nousek

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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We present a comparison of the spectroscopic capabilities of a front side-illuminated thin-gate CCD and the AXAF CCD Imaging Spectrometer back side-illuminated CCD for two simulated astrophysical observations below 1 keV. The thin-gate CCD has superior energy resolution but inferior (although nonnegligible) quantum efficiency over this bandpass. We show that the low-noise, thin-gate CCD design provides superior determination of confidence intervals for spectroscopy below 1 keV.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	L51-L54
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	466
Issue number	1 PART II
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/310163
State	Published - 1996

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