The flight spectral response of the ACIS instrument

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 89-100

  Plucinsky, Paul P ^a   Schulz, Norbert S ^b   Marshall, Herman L ^b   Grant, Catherine E ^b   Chartas, George ^c   Sanwal, Divas ^c   Teter, Marcus A ^c   Vikhlinin, Alexey A ^a   Edgar, Richard J ^a   Wise, Michael W ^b   Allen, Glenn E ^b   Virani, Shanil N ^a   DePasquale, Joseph M ^a   Raley, Michael T ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ACIS; CCDs; Chandra; Charge Coupled Devices; CXO; X ray detectors; X ray spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OBSERVATORIES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FLIGHT SPECTRAL RESPONSE;

X RAY SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 0037958428     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461473     Document Type: Conference Paper

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