CCD15-30

The CCD15-30 are able to be close butted, with a dead region of less than 300 microns wide on three sides; to minimise the dead space, adjacent CCDs can be stepped by about 1 mm to overlap by 300 microns.  The imaging area is ~2.5 x 2.5 cm, so that a mosaic of seven would cover the focal plane of 62 mm in diameter, equivalent to 28.4 arcmin. The imaging section has 600 x 600, 40 micron square, pixels; one pixel covers 1.1 x 1.1 arcsec on the FOV; 15 pixels cover the mirror PSF half energy width of 15 arcsec. The readout register is split into two sections, ending in a readout node. The full CCD image can be read out using either node, or read out using both nodes simultaneously, to halve the readout time.

Space Agency Mission Instrument
ESA XMM-Newton REFLECTION GRATING SPECTROMETER (RGS)

Specifications

Part Number CCD15-30
Sensor Type CCD
Resolution 384 x 1024
Pixel Size 27 x 27 µm
Package PGA
Total Pixels 0.39 MP
Wavelength Category X-Ray (0.01-10 nm)