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The Science Instrument (SI) Calibration Report for the Chandra CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) is the very Basis of our ACIS calibration. It is prepared and updated by the ACIS teams at MIT and Pennsylvania State University, Co-Editors are Marshall W. Bautz (MIT), John A. Nousek (PSU), ACIS instrument PI is Gordon P. Garmire (PSU), see page to the right. The report is quite lengthy, therefore instead of pointing to the original Project Science Calibration page entry, the report was broken up into single sections containing each main topic in a separate page entry.
Contents, list of tables and figures
Basic CCD Model Components and Measurement Strategy
Overview of Detector Calibration Measurements
Energy Scale and Spectral Redistribution Function
Pileup Measurements and Modelling
Measurement of Absolute Quantum Efficiency
Relative Quantum Efficiencies of ACIS Flight Detectors
Absolute Quantum Efficiencies of ACIS Flight Detectors
Effects of Instrument Configuration and Environment
In-flight ACIS Calibration Sources
ACIS Sensitivity to Visible-Band Radiation
ACIS CCD Sensitivity to (NON-)Ionizing Radiation
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