ESA Science & Technology - Imaging Performance of the XMM-Newton X-ray telescopes

Publication date: 19 July 2000

Authors: Aschenbach, B., et al.

Journal: Proc. SPIE
Volume: 4012
Page: pp.731-730
Year: 2000

Copyright: SPIE

The in-orbit imaging performance of the three X-ray telescopes on board of the X-ray astronomy observatory XMM-Newton is presented and compared with the performance measured on ground at the MPE PANTER test facility. The comparison shows an excellent agreement between the on ground and in-orbit performance.