Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-12-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, 5 figures. To appear in ``The High Energy Universe at Sharp Focus'' (St. Paul, Minnesota 2001), eds Schlegel and Vrt
Scientific paper
The MIT and CXC ACIS teams have explored a number of measures to ameliorate the effects of radiation damage suffered by the ACIS FI CCDs. One of these measures is a novel CCD read-out method called ``squeegee mode''. A variety of different implementations of the squeegee mode have now been tested on the I0 CCD. Our results for the fitted FWHM at Al-K$\alpha$ and Mn-K$\alpha$ clearly demonstrate that all the squeegee modes provide improved performance in terms of reducing CTI and improving spectral resolution. Our analysis of the detection efficiency shows that the so-called squeegee modes ``Vanilla'' and ``Maximum Observing Efficiency'' provide the same detection efficiency as the standard clocking, once the decay in the intensity of the radioactive source has been taken into account. The squeegee modes which utilize the slow parallel transfer (``Maximum Spectral Resolution'', ``Maximum Angular Resolution'', and ``Sub-Array'') show a significantly lower detection efficiency than the standard clocking. The slow parallel transfer squeegee modes exhibit severe grade migration from flight grade 0 to flight grade 64 and a smaller migration into ASCA g7. The latter effect can explain some of the drop in detection efficiency. (ABRIDGED ABSTRACT)
Grant Catherine E.
LaMarr Beverly
Plucinsky Paul P.
Virani Shanil N.
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