National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton)

Mission Characteristics

Lifetime

Energy Range

Special Features

Payload

• Three co-aligned Wolter Type I grazing incidence gold-coated imaging X-ray telescopes each with an effective area of ~ 1500 cm² @ 1 keV Spatial resolution 6" FWHM. There are three type of instruments :
  • European Photon Imaging Camera
    Metal-Oxide-Silicon (EPIC-MOS; 0.1-15 keV; 2 units)
    The EPIC-MOS are mounted under two telescopes and are used for spectro-imaging. Each units consist of an array of 7 CCDs and each CCD is 600 X 600 pixels
    FOV 33 ´ X 33 ´
    spectral resolution (E/dE) ~ 20-50
    Eff area 922 cm² @ 1keV
    

  • European Photon Imaging Camera-PN
    (0.1-15 keV; 1 unit)
    This is an array of 12 CCDs (64 X 200 pixels each) used for spectro-imaging
    FOV 27.5 ´ X 27.5 ´
    spectral resolution (E/dE) ~ 20-50
    Eff area 1227 cm² @ 1keV
    

  • Reflection Grating Spectrometer
    (RGS; 0.35-2.5 keV two units) + EPIC-MOS
    The gratings, mounted under two telescopes, deflect about 50% of the X-ray light onto an array of 9 EPIC-MOS CCD detectors.
    Line density ~645 lines mm^-1 at the centre
    Spectral resolution (E/dE) 200-800
    Eff area 185 cm² 1 keV
    FOV 5´

• Optical Monitor (OM; 180-650 nm)
  co-aligned 30 cm optical/UV telescope. FOV ~17´, ~1" spatial resolution.
  

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