ISSN:
1572-9508
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract Charge coupled devices (CCDs) are under active investigation as imaging detectors in future X-ray astronomy satellites. The exploitation of such detectors holds great promise because of their capability to perform simultaneous imaging and spectroscopy. Unfortunately, standard readout techniques give a temporal resolution insufficient to study X-ray sources showing variability on timescales less than few seconds. In this paper alternative, non-imaging readout modes are investigated, in order to achieve millisecond temporal resolution for point-like sources. Simulation results are presented for the EPIC camera, the focal plane instrument for ESA's mission XMM, showing that the required temporal capabilities can be reached without loss of energy resolution.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00395986
