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Table 5:

Energy bands, spatial resolutions, and field of view of some X-ray instruments onboard space missionsa.

Space
Instrument Energy Resolution FoV
mission   [keV] [arcsec] [arcmin]

Einstein
HRI 0.2-3.0 4 25
  IPC 0.3-3.5 60 75
ROSAT HRI 0.1-2.4 5 20 $\times$ 20
  PSPC 0.1-2.4 15 114
Chandra HRC-I 0.08-10 0.4 31 $\times$ 31
  ACIS-S 0.2-10 1.2 16 $\times$ 16
XMM-Newton PN 0.2-15 6 30
  MOS 0.2-12 6 30

Notes. (a) See an exhaustive compilation of parameters of X-ray detectors at http://space.mit.edu/~jonathan/xray_detect.html.


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