Optimization of spectral performances of the XMM-EPIC MOS camera systems: event selection and energy reconstruction schemes tested on calibration data

Claude Pigot; Jean Luc Sauvageot; Philippe Ferrando; Elena Belsole

doi:10.1117/12.409148

13 December 2000 Optimization of spectral performances of the XMM-EPIC MOS camera systems: event selection and energy reconstruction schemes tested on calibration data

Claude Pigot, Jean Luc Sauvageot, Philippe Ferrando, Elena Belsole

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Proceedings Volume 4140, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XI; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.409148
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2000, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Ground calibrations have been completed in 1998 on the MOS-CCD focal planes of the European Photon Imaging Cameras (EPIC) of the X-ray Multi-Mirror (XMM) mission. The cameras have been calibrated as a whole, including the digital treatment performed in the EPIC MOS Controller (EMCR), where events are selected according to a library of preset patterns and some of their parameters saved for ground off line reconstruction. This paper presents results of the calibration data analysis about the X-ray event selection as a function of the EMCR configuration parameters and the X-ray event energy reconstruction on the pattern basis. Spectral performances of the cameras as well as the background rejection are presented as a function of the reconstruction scheme adopted.

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Claude Pigot, Jean Luc Sauvageot, Philippe Ferrando, and Elena Belsole "Optimization of spectral performances of the XMM-EPIC MOS camera systems: event selection and energy reconstruction schemes tested on calibration data", Proc. SPIE 4140, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, (13 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.409148

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