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Date: 19 December 1998 Satellite: XMM-Newton Depicts: Sample spectrum from RGS Copyright: Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching Show in archive: true
A sample Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) spectrum obtained at the long-beam facility at the Panter long beam X-ray test facility of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics at Garching.
The upper graph displays presence of elements; the lower one shows the first and higher order spectra, separated from one another by the intrinsic resolution of the CCDs.