Improving the spatial resolution of XMM-Newton EPIC images by direct demodulation technique}

Feng, Hua; Zhang, S. N.; Lu, F. J.; Li, T. P.; Chen, Yong

China, United States

Abstract

We have applied the direct demodulation technique to XMM-Newton EPIC images to achieve a higher spatial resolution; the restored images are compared with Chandra images. With the improved images we can extract spectra of fine structures in XMM-Newton data.

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 4