천문학회보 (The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society)
- 제37권1호
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- Pages.93.2-93.2
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- 2012
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- 1226-2692(pISSN)
Consideration of CCD Gate Structure in the Determination of the Point Spread Function of Yohkoh Soft X-Ray Telescope (SXT)
- 신준호 (경희대) ;
- Shin, Jun-Ho (School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University) ;
- Sakurai, Takashi (Solar and Plasma Astrophysics Division, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
- 발행 : 2012.04.03
초록
Point Spread Function (PSF) is one of the most important optical characteristics for describing the performance of a telescope. And a concept of subpixelization is inevitable in evaluating the undersampled PSF (Shin and Sakurai 2009). Then, the internal structure of Yohkoh SXT CCD pixel is not uniform: For the top half of pixel area, the X-ray should pass a so-called gate structure where the charges are transferred to an output amplifier. This gate structure shows energy-dependent sensitivity (Tsuneta et al. 1991). For example, for Al-K (8.34 A) X-ray emission, the transmission of the polysilicon gate is about 0.9. Also, for the peak coronal response of the SXT thin filters, around 17 angstrom (0.729 keV), the transmission of the gate is about 0.6, falling off sharply towards longer wavelengths. It should be noted that this spectrally dependent non-uniform response of each CCD pixel will certainly have a noticeable effect on the properties of the PSF at longer wavelengths. Therefore, especially for analyzing the undersampled PSF of low energy source, a careful consideration of non-uniform internal pixel structure is required in determining the shape of the PSF core. The details on the effect of gate structure will be introduced in our presentation.
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