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Direct measurement of sub-pixel structure of the EPIC MOS CCD on-board the XMM//NEWTON satellite

Bennie, P. J.; Turner, M. J. L.; Abbey, A. F. +3 more

We have used a mesh experiment in order to measure the sub-pixel structure of the EPIC MOS CCDs on-board the XMM/NEWTON satellite. The EPIC MOS CCDs have 40 µm-square pixels which have an open electrode structure in order to improve the detection efficiency for low-energy X-rays. We obtained restored pixel images for various X-ray event grad…

Novel pixel detectors for X-ray astronomy and other applications

Strüder, L.; Lutz, G.; Richter, R. H.

Following previous work in particle physics, the MPI Semiconductor Laboratory has been founded with the purpose of developing novel semiconductor detectors for particle physics and X-ray astronomy. A short description of the already successfully concluded development of pn-CCDs for focal imaging in X-ray astronomy (XMM//Newton X-ray Observatory) i…