2001A&A...365L...7D

Query : 2001A&A...365L...7D

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

Simbad objects: 9

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Number of rows : 9
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2024 		#notes
1 HD 22468 RS* 03 36 47.2904292073 +00 35 15.943692002 7.09 6.79 5.90     K2:Vnk 1167 0
2 * alf Aur SB* 05 16 41.35871 +45 59 52.7693 1.33 0.88 0.08 -0.52 -0.96 G3III: 1177 0
3 V* AB Dor TT* 05 28 44.8712165880 -65 26 55.199147208 8.259 7.856 6.999 6.496 5.993 K0V 1021 0
4 * alf Car * 06 23 57.10988 -52 41 44.3810 -0.49 -0.59 -0.74 -0.96 -1.13 A9II 447 1
5 NAME Lockman Hole reg 10 45 00.0 +58 00 00           ~ 840 0
6 Mrk 421 BLL 11 04 27.3140835504 +38 12 31.798495872   13.50 12.90 8.31   ~ 2675 1
7 3C 273 BLL 12 29 06.6998257176 +02 03 08.597629980   13.05 14.830 14.11   ~ 5802 1
8 V* V5512 Sgr LXB 18 14 31.55 -17 09 26.7     12.73     K5III 392 0
9 QSO B2155-304 BLL 21 58 52.0652249880 -30 13 32.118447792   13.36 13.09 12.62   ~ 1733 1

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