Simulations and mitigation of pile-up in XMM CCD instriments

Experimental Astronomy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 439-456

  Lumb, D H ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CCD detectors; CHANDRA; Detector simulation; X ray astronomy; XMM

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041687671     PISSN: 09226435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008179519098     Document Type: Article

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