Timing with the EPIC pn Camera of XMM-Newton

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2002-03-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0203207v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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6 pages, 9 figures, To appear in the Proceedings of the Symposium on `New Visions of the X-ray Universe in the XMM-Newton and

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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 microseconds, 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.

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