Improving XMM-Newton EPIC pn data at low energies: method and application to the Vela SNR

Konrad Dennerl, Bernd Aschenbach, Ulrich G. Briel +13

High quantum efficiency over a broad spectral range is one of the main properties of the EPIC pn camera on-board XMM-Newton. The quantum efficiency rises from ~75% at 0.2 keV to ~1…