The European Photon Imaging Camera on XMM-Newton: The MOS cameras
The European Photon Imaging Camera on XMM-Newton: The MOS cameras
The EPIC focal plane imaging spectrometers on XMM-Newton use CCDs to record the images and spectra of celestial X-ray sources focused by the three X-ray mirrors. There is one camera at the focus of each mirror; two of the cameras contain seven MOS CCDs, while the third uses twelve PN …