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X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) on Board Suzaku

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The XIS is an X-ray imaging spectrometer system, consisting of state-of-the-art charge-coupled devices (CCDs) optimized for Xray detection, camera bodies, and control electronics as mentioned in this paper.
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The XIS is an X-ray Imaging Spectrometer system, consisting of state-of-the-art charge-coupled devices (CCDs) optimized for X-ray detection, camera bodies, and control electronics. Four sets of XIS sensors are placed at the focal planes of the grazing-incidence, nested thin-foil mirrors (XRT: X-Ray Telescope) onboard the Suzaku satellite. Three of the XIS sensors have front-illuminated CCDs, while the other has a back-illuminated CCD. Coupled with the XRT, the energy range of 0.2–12keV with energy resolution of 130eV at 5.9keV, and a field of view of 18 � ×18 �

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Development of an X-ray pixel detector with multi-port charge-coupled device for X-ray free-electron laser experiments

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An overview of the performance and scientific results from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO)

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Nuclear Instruments and Methods

José Salgado
TL;DR: In this paper, the thermal and epithermal self-shielding factors in different materials (Al, Au, Cd, Co, Cu, Eu, Gd, In, Ir, Mo, Ni, Pt, Pb, Rh, Sc, Sm and Ta) and different geometries (foils, wires, spheres and) have been calculated using the MCNP code.
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