ASCA SIS Calibration Information

This web page contains (hopefully) the latest calibration information of the ASCA Solid state Imaging Spectrometer (SIS).

Calibration observation
Summary of Cas A observations

Charge transfer efficiency (CTE)
Degradation of the energy resolution due to non-uniform CTE

Dark current
Degradation of SIS performance due to RDD
Models of RDD

SIS operation
Flickering Pixel Rate
Defect in SIS-1 chip-2

Temperature
SIS-related Temperatures

Charged particles
Particle zoo

Acknowledgement
Calibration analysis of SIS presented here is partly done by Dr. A. Yamashita, Mr. H. Ezuka, and Mr. K. Takahashi at ISAS. I am also indebted to the SIS members at MIT, Dr. K. Gendreau and Dr. A. Rasmussen, for usefull suggestions and discussion.

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Dr. Tadayasu Dotani
dotani@astro.isas.jaxa.jp
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
3-1-1 Yoshino-dai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-8510, Japan
Update: 2000-7-17