The PSPC detector on board ROSAT
The PSPC detector on board ROSAT
Rosat is equipped with three detectors. Two of these are identical four-wire proportional counters known as Position Sensitive Proportional Counters detectors (PSPC), developed by the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, near Munich. The PSPC detector provides a wide field of view and a level of energy resolution that enables it to distinguish four colours.
