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2001A&A...365L...7D - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 365, L7-17 (2001/1-1)

The Reflection Grating Spectrometer on board XMM-Newton.

DEN HERDER J.W., BRINKMAN A.C., KAHN S.M., BRANDUARDI-RAYMONT G., THOMSEN K., AARTS H., AUDARD M., BIXLER J.V., DEN BOGGENDE A.J., COTTAM J., DECKER T., DUBBELDAM L., ERD C., GOULOOZE H., GUEDEL M., GUTTRIDGE P., HAILEY C.J., AL JANABI K., KAASTRA J.S., DE KORTE P.A.J., VAN LEEUWEN B.J., MAUCHE C., McCALDEN A.J., MEWE R., NABER A., PAERELS F.B., PETERSON J.R., RASMUSSEN A.P., REES K., SAKELLIOU I., SAKO M., SPODEK J., STERN M., TAMURA T., TANDY J., DE VRIES C.P., WELCH S. and ZEHNDER A.

Abstract (from CDS):

The ESA X-ray Multi Mirror mission, XMM-Newton, carries two identical Reflection Grating Spectrometers (RGS) behind two of its three nested sets of Wolter I type mirrors. The instrument allows high-resolution (E/ΔE=100 to 500) measurements in the soft X-ray range (6 to 38Å or 2.1 to 0.3 keV) with a maximum effective area of about 140cm² at 15Å. Its design is optimized for the detection of the K-shell transitions of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, magnesium, and silicon, as well as the L shell transitions of iron. The present paper gives a full description of the design of the RGS and its operational modes. We also review details of the calibrations and in-orbit performance including the line spread function, the wavelength calibration, the effective area, and the instrumental background.

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Journal keyword(s): space vehicles: instruments, reflection gratings, XMM-Newton

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