EPIC-MOS CCDs
EPIC-pn CCDs
EPICThe XMM-Newton spacecraft carries a set of three X-ray CCD cameras, comprising the European Photon Imaging Camera (EPIC). The EPIC cameras offer the possibility to perform extremely sensitive imaging observations over the telescope's field of view of 30 arcmin and in the energy range from 0.15 to 15 keV with moderate spectral resolving power (20-50) and at an angular resolution (PSF, 6 arcsec FWHM).Behind one of the three X-ray telescopes (the one which has an unobstructed beam) the EPIC instrument at the focus uses pn CCDs and is referred to as the pn camera. Two of the cameras are MOS (Metal Oxide Semi-conductor) CCD arrays referred to as the MOS cameras. They are installed behind the X-ray telescopes that are equipped with the gratings of the Reflection Grating Spectrometers (RGS). |
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