The Reflection Grating Spectrometer on-board XMM-Newton: Status of the Calibrations

By J. Herder. 2002

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X-ray Spectroscopy of the Cluster of Galaxies Abell 1795 with XMM-Newton (2000, methodology): “The RGS (den Herder et al. 2001) were operated in the spectroscopy mode.”
Spectral changes during dipping in low-mass X-ray binaries due to highly-ionized absorbers (2005, background): “Reflection Grating Spectrometers (RGS, Den Herder et al. 2001) are located behind two of the telescopes.”
First light measurements with the XMM-Newton reflection grating spectrometers: Evidence for an inverse first ionisation potential effect and anomalous Ne abundance in the Coronae of HR 1099 (2000, neutral): “The XMM-Newton X-ray observatory incorporates a payload with two identical high-resolution Reflection Grating Spectrometers (RGS; den Herder et al. 2001) with a spectral resolution of about 0.06̊A FWHM.”
XMM-Newton observatory. I. The spacecraft and operations (2001, methodology): “Plane Assembly are located the two Reflection Grating Spectrometer (Den Herder et al. 2001) readout cameras, an EPIC PN (Strüder et al. 2001) and two EPIC MOS imaging detectors (Turner et al. 2001).”
Complex resonance absorption structure in the X-ray spectrum of IRAS 13349+2438 (2000, methodology): “The data obtained with the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS; den Herder et al. 2001) were filtered through standard event-selection criteria using the XMM-Newton Science Analysis Software (SAS).”
On the origin of soft X-rays in obscured AGN: answers from high-resolution spectroscopy with XMM–Newton (2006, background): “The Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) on board XMM-Newton (der Herder et al. 2001) is the most suitable instrument currently flying for this purpose, due to its unprecedented effective area in the 0.2-2 keV band, as well as its good absolute aspect solution accuracy (≃8 mÅ).”
The European Photon Imaging Camera on XMM-Newton: The MOS cameras : The MOS cameras (2000, methodology): “Two of the telescopes are fitted with the X-ray gratings of the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (den Herder et al. 2001).”
The soft X-ray/NLR connection: a single photoionized medium? (2005, background): “In all these observations, the Radiation Grating Spectrometer (RGS; den Herder et al. 2001) was operating in standard spectroscopic mode.”
XMM-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometer Observations of Discrete Soft X-Ray Emission Features from NGC 1068 (2002, background): “Based on ground calibration, we expect the 1 uncertainty in the effective area to be less than 10% above 9 Å and at most 20% for shorter wavelengths (den Herder et al. 2001, 2002).”
On the soft X-ray spectrum of cooling flows (2000, methodology): “…306, 875 David L., Nulsen P. E. J., McNamara B. R., Forman W., Jones C., Robertson B., Wise M., 2000, ApJ, submitted (astro-ph/0010224) den Herder et al., 2001, A&A, 365, L7 Donahue M., Mack J., Voit G. M., Sparks W., Elston R., Maloney P. R., 2000, ApJ, in press…”
Evidence of a high-velocity ionized outflow in a second narrow-line quasar PG 0844+349 (2003, background): “We use the full XMM–Newton X-ray data, including the EPIC pn camera (Strüder et al. 2001), C© 2003 RAS Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/346/4/1025/1062121 by guest on 28 July 2018 which has the best sensitivity of any instrument flown to date in the ∼7–10 keV spectral”
The Suzaku High Resolution X-Ray Spectrometer (2007, background): “These devices offer very high spectral resolution for energies below about 1 keV (e.g., Canizares et al. 2000; Brinkman et al. 2000; den Herder et al. 2001), but the spectral resolving power decreases toward higher energies and also degrades as the solid angle of the source being observed increases.”
An absorption origin for the X-ray spectral variability of MCG-6-30-15 (2008, methodology): “We also used higher resolution spectra from the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (, den Herder et al. 2001) which were taken from the pipeline processing and were coadded for each grating to yield two spectra for each of the 2000, 2001 epochs.”
High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopic Constraints on Cooling-Flow Models for Clusters of Galaxies (2002, methodology): “For a full description of the RGS experiment, see den Herder et al. (2001).”
A high-velocity ionized outflow and XUV photosphere in the narrow emission line quasar PG1211+143 (2003, methodology): “…this paper we use data from the EPIC pn camera (Strüder et al.2001), which has the best sensitivity of any instrument flown to date in the ∼6-10 keV spectral band, the combined EPIC c© 2003 RAS MOS cameras (Turner et al. 2001), and the Reflection Grating Spectrometer/RGS (den Herder et al. 2001).”