Calibration of the Rossi X‐Ray Timing Explorer Proportional Counter Array
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series2006Vol. 163(2), pp. 401–423
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K. Jahoda, C. B. Markwardt, Y. L. Radeva, A. H. Rots, Michael J. Stark, J. H. Swank, Tod E. Strohmayer, William Zhang
Abstract
We present the calibration and background model for the Proportional Counter Array (PCA) aboard the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The energy calibration is systematics limited below 10 keV with deviations from a power-law fit to the Crab nebula plus pulsar less than 1%. Unmodelled variations in the instrument background amount to less than 2% of the observed background below 10 keV and less than 1% between 10 and 20 keV. Individual photon arrival times are accurate to 4.4 micro-seconds at all times during the mission and to 2.5 micro-seconds after 29 April 1997. The peak pointing direction of the five collimators is known to a precision of a few arc-seconds
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