Joachim Trümper

TL;DR: In this paper, the European Photon Imaging Camera (EPIC) consortium has provided the focal plane instruments for the three X-ray mirror systems on XMM-Newton, including two cameras with a reflecting grating spectrometer in the optical path equipped with MOS type CCDs as focal plane detectors.

TL;DR: 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 Xray mirrors as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented new maps of the soft X-ray background from the ROSAT all-sky survey, which represent a significant improvement over the previous version in that position resolution of the PSPC has been used to improve the angular resolution from 2? to 12' and the contributions of point sources have been removed to a uniform source flux level over most of the sky.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a new X-ray source characterization technique, termed growth curve analysis (GCA), to provide more precise values for the Xray flux and source extent than obtained from the standard processing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors observed the C/Hyakutake 1996 B2 at extreme ultraviolet and x-ray wavelengths with the Rœntgen Xray Satellite and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer.