Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Abteilung Astronomie Sand 1, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
Hinweis: Einige Seiten auf astro.uni-tuebingen.de können veraltet sein und werden nicht mehr aktualisiert. Note: Some webpages at astro.uni-tuebingen.de may be outdated and will no longer be updated.

Preprint 02h/02

Timing with the EPIC pn Camera of XMM-Newton

M. Kuster (1), E. Kendziorra (1), S. Benlloch (1), W. Becker (2), U. Lammers (3), G. Vacanti (3,4), E. Serpell (5)

(1) Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Astronomie, Universität Tübingen, Sand 1, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
(2) Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik - MPE, Giessenbachstr. 1, D-85784 Garching, Germany
(3) ESA Astrophysics Division (SA), Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
(4) Cosine Science & Computing BV, Leiden, The Netherlands
(5) European Space Operations Center, ESOC, Robert-Bosch Str. 5, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany

in: New Visions of the X-ray Universe in the XMM-Newton and Chandra Era, eds. F. Jansen & TBD, ESA SP-488, 2002

Abstract.

The EPIC pn CCD camera on board of XMM-Newton is designed to perform high throughput imaging and spectroscopy as well as high resolution timing observations in the energy range of 0.1-15 keV. A temporal resolution of milliseconds or micro-seconds, depending on the instrument mode and detector, is outstanding for CCD based X-ray cameras. In order to calibrate the different observing modes of the EPIC pn CCD, XMM-Newton observations of the pulsars PSR B1509-58, PSR B0540-69 and the Crab were performed during the calibration and performance verification phase. To determine the accuracy of the on board clock against Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), PSR B1509-58 was observed simultaneously with XMM-Newton and RXTE in addition. The paper summarizes the current status of the clock calibration.

Key words: Missions: XMM-Newton - EPIC, pn-CCD, timing

Paper (5.167k gzip'ed Postscript including figures)

[Home Page] [Preprints 2002] [Quick Reference] [Feedback]

| Impressum Last modified 14 Nov 2002