X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) on Board Suzaku
Abstract
The XIS is an X-ray Imaging Spectrometer system, consisting of state-of-the-art charge-coupled devices (CCDs) optimized for X-ray detection, camera bodies, and control electronics. Four sets of XIS sensors are placed at the focal planes of the grazing-incidence, nested thin-foil mirrors (XRT: X-Ray Telescope) onboard the Suzaku satellite. Three of the XIS sensors have front-illuminated CCDs, while the other has a back-illuminated CCD. Coupled with the XRT, the energy range of 0.2-12keV with energy resolution of 130eV at 5.9keV, and a field of view of 18' × 18' are realized. Since the Suzaku launch on 2005 July 10, the XIS has been functioning well.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
- Pub Date:
- January 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1093/pasj/59.sp1.S23
- Bibcode:
- 2007PASJ...59S..23K
- Keywords:
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- instrumentation: detectors;
- methods: data analysis;
- space vehicles: instruments;
- X-ray CCDs