Optical/UV monitor telescope on the x-ray multimirror observatory

Keith O. Mason; Mark S. Cropper; John L. A. Fordham; France Anne Cordova; David T. Leisawitz; David H. Lumb; Cheng Ho; Elio Antonello; Claude A. J. Jamar

doi:10.1117/12.158758

1 November 1993 Optical/UV monitor telescope on the x-ray multimirror observatory

Keith O. Mason, Mark S. Cropper, John L. A. Fordham, France Anne Cordova, David T. Leisawitz, David H. Lumb, Cheng Ho, Elio Antonello, Claude A. J. Jamar

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Proceedings Volume 1945, Space Astronomical Telescopes and Instruments II; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.158758
Event: Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1993, Orlando, FL, United States

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The Optical/UV Monitor Telescope (XMM-OM) on the ESA X-ray Cornerstone mission XMM is designed to provide simultaneous optical and UV coverage of all sources viewed by the observatory in the X-ray band. The instrument consists of a 30 cm Ritchey-Chretien telescope. This feeds a compact photon counting detector that operates in the blue part of the optical spectrum and the UV (1600 - 5500 angstroms), and simultaneously a cooled CCD detector which registers the red light (5500 - 10000 angstroms). The XMM-OM will have a field of view of approximately 25 arcmin diameter, matching that of the X-ray cameras on XMM, and a spatial pixel size in normal operation of 1 arcsec in the blue, and about 1.8 arcsec in the red. Because of the low sky background in space, the sensitivity of the XMM- OM for detecting stars will be comparable to that of a 4-m telescope at the Earth's surface, and it should detect a B equals 24^th magnitude star with a photon counting detector in a 1000 s observation using unfiltered light.

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Keith O. Mason, Mark S. Cropper, John L. A. Fordham, France Anne Cordova, David T. Leisawitz, David H. Lumb, Cheng Ho, Elio Antonello, and Claude A. J. Jamar "Optical/UV monitor telescope on the x-ray multimirror observatory", Proc. SPIE 1945, Space Astronomical Telescopes and Instruments II, (1 November 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.158758

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Sensors

Charge-coupled devices

Space telescopes

X-rays

CCD image sensors

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