THIN-GATE FRONT SIDE-ILLUMINATED VERSUS BACK SIDE-ILLUMINATED CHARGE-COUPLED-DEVICES FOR X-RAY ASTRONOMY

Authors
KRAFT RP BURROWS DN GARMIRE GP NOUSEK JA
Citation
Rp. Kraft et al., THIN-GATE FRONT SIDE-ILLUMINATED VERSUS BACK SIDE-ILLUMINATED CHARGE-COUPLED-DEVICES FOR X-RAY ASTRONOMY, The Astrophysical journal, 466(1), 1996, pp. 51-54
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
The Astrophysical journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
0004637X
Volume
466
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Part
2
Pages
51 - 54
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-637X(1996)466:1<51:TFSVBS>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
We present a comparison of the spectroscopic capabilities of a front s ide-illuminated thin-gate CCD and the AXAF CCD Imaging Spectrometer ba ck side-illuminated CCD for two simulated astrophysical observations b elow 1 keV. The thin-gate CCD has superior energy resolution but infer ior (although nonnegligible) quantum efficiency over this bandpass. We show that the low-noise, thin-gate CCD design provides superior deter mination of confidence intervals for spectroscopy below 1 keV.