XMM-NEWTON scientific instruments

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XMM-NEWTON scientific instruments

• Mirror Modules - total mirror surface area
  exceeds 120 m2
• focal length 7.5m
• resolution 5 arcsec
• EPIC - imaging and spectroscopy at
  0.2 - 10 keV
• ERMS - particle detector
• OM - optical/UV imaging at 1.9 - 6.9 eV
• RGS - spectroscopy at 0.35 - 2.5 keV

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XMM-NEWTON
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XMM-NEWTON scientific achievements

• Help to solve cosmic mysteries ranging from black
  holes to the origins of the universe
• Largest X-ray ccd detector ever built (36 cm2)
• XMM-Newton detected the same sources in the
  Andromeda Galaxy in two observations that
  Chandra, Einstein and ROSAT together detected

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XMM-NEWTON

• Largest scientific satellite built in Europe
• Launch Date December 1999
• Mission Duration 2-10 years
• Cost 700 Million Euros