Performance of the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) Mirror/Detector Combination

Details Performance of the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) Mirror/Detector Combination Performance of the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) Mirror/Detector Combination

Apr 2003

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GAMMA-RAY BURST AND AFTERGLOW ASTRONOMY 2001: A Workshop Celebrating the First Year of the HETE Mission. AIP Conference Proceed

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts, X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation

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The Swift XRT [4] uses a 12 shell grazing incidence mirror developed for the JET-X telescope and an open electrode CCD detector developed for XMM-Newton [9]. The mirror has recently undergone re-characterization at the Panter facility and the flight detector is currently being calibrated at the University of Leicester. We present key performance characteristics of the mirror/detector combination, in particular, the point spread function (PSF) and centroiding capability and the impact of background events, as well as the telescope effective area and spectral response.

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