Frame store PN-CCD detector for the ROSITA mission

Norbert Meidinger; Stefan Bonerz; Heinrich W. Braeuninger; Rouven Eckhardt; Jakob Englhauser; Robert Hartmann; Gunther Hasinger; Peter Holl; Norbert Krause; Gerhard Lutz; Elmar Pfeffermann; Rainer H. Richter; Heike Soltau; Lothar Strueder; Joachim E. Truemper

doi:10.1117/12.461156

11 March 2003 Frame store PN-CCD detector for the ROSITA mission

Norbert Meidinger, Stefan Bonerz, Heinrich W. Braeuninger, Rouven Eckhardt, Jakob Englhauser, Robert Hartmann, Gunther Hasinger, Peter Holl, Norbert Krause, Gerhard Lutz, Elmar Pfeffermann, Rainer H. Richter, Heike Soltau, Lothar Strueder, Joachim E. Truemper

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Proceedings Volume 4851, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Telescopes and Instruments for Astronomy; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461156
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

The pn-CCD was developed as focal plane detector for the XMM-Newton mission and operates successfully for more than 30 months in orbit without performance degradation. In order to match the new requirements of the future ROSITA mission which will perform a broad band X-ray all-sky survey, we propose an advanced type of pn-CCD. The concept and the new features of this frame store pn-CCD as part of the imaging X-ray spectrometer of ROSITA are described. First measurements with prototype devices show the improvement of detector performance in comparison to the pn-CCD on XMM-Newton. We suggest as optical filter for the observations of the X-ray sky, a thin aluminum layer deposited on the photon entrance window of the device.

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Norbert Meidinger, Stefan Bonerz, Heinrich W. Braeuninger, Rouven Eckhardt, Jakob Englhauser, Robert Hartmann, Gunther Hasinger, Peter Holl, Norbert Krause, Gerhard Lutz, Elmar Pfeffermann, Rainer H. Richter, Heike Soltau, Lothar Strueder, and Joachim E. Truemper "Frame store PN-CCD detector for the ROSITA mission", Proc. SPIE 4851, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Telescopes and Instruments for Astronomy, (11 March 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461156

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