Fact sheet

Optics

X-Ray Optics
Optic Design Optimized Wolter-I grazing incidence optics
Spatial Resolution Encircled energy of 68% within 2" @ 0.523keV
Focal Length 2708mm
Micro-Roughness 6Å (expected)
Aperture Size > 340mm
Band Width 2 - 200Å
Effective Area > 1.0cm2 @ 0.523keV
Visible Light Optics
Focal Length 2708mm
Wavelength 4305Å (G-band)
Field of View >30'

Camera performances

CCD Type back-illuminated CCD (E2V/CCD 42-40)
Pixel Format 2048 × 2048 pixels
Pixel Size 13.5 × 13.5 micron (corresponding to 1" × 1")
Field of View 34' × 34'
Pixel Binning Mode 1×1, 2×2, 4×4, and 8×8
Dark Current 0.1 e-/sec/pixel @ -65 C
CCD Temperature passive cooling: < -43 C
CTE (Parallel) >0.999996
CTE (Serial) >0.999999 (-93 C < T < -50 C)
QE (X-ray/EUV) 0.93 @ 13Å, 0.61 @ 45Å, 0.46 @ 116Å, 0.56 @ 304Å
QE (Visible Light) 0.44 @ 4000Å, 0.66 @ 5000Å
Full-well Capacity 2.0 × 105 e-
System Gain 57 e-/DN
System Noise <30 e-
Output Data Resolution 12 bit

(*) "SOLAR-B Soft X-ray Telescope (XRT) Flight CCD Camera System (XRT-S, XRT-E) Data Package"

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