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Parsons, Steven; Hall, David; Hetherington, Oliver; Buggey, Thomas; Arnold, Timothy; Hubbard, Michael and Holland, Andrew (2024). SMILE Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) CCD370 proton irradiation results. Proceedings - SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, 13103, article no. 131030E.

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Buggey, T. W.; Randall, G.; Parsons, S.; Jones, L. S.; DeCaire, A. L.; Arnold, T.; Hetherington, O.; Holland, A. D. and Hall, D. J. (2024). Soft X-ray performance of an optimised charge-coupled device for astronomy. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1066, article no. 169636.

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Hubbard, Michael; Buggey, Thomas; Hall, David; Feldman, Charly; Keelan, Jonathan; Hetherington, Oliver; Parsons, Steven; Arnold, Timothy and Holland, Andrew (2024). Impact of particle passage and focusing from micro-pore optics for radiation damage estimates. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 10(3), article no. 034003.

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Townsend-Rose, Charles; Buggey, Thomas; Ivory, James; Stefanov, Konstantin D.; Jones, Lawrence; Hetherington, Oliver; Holland, Andrew D. and Prod’homme, Thibaut (2023). Electro-optical characterization of a CMOS image sensor optimized for soft x-ray astronomy. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 9(4), article no. 046001.

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Parsons, S.; Hall, D. J.; Hetherington, O.; Buggey, T. W.; Arnold, T.; Hubbard, M. W. J. and Holland, A. (2023). SMILE soft X-ray Imager flight model CCD370 pre-flight device characterisation. Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1) pp. 1–14.

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Hubbard, Michael W. J.; Hall, David; Hetherington, Oliver; Arnold, Timothy and Holland, Andrew (2023). Impact of impurities in shielding material on simulations of instrument background in space. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 9(3), article no. 034004.

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Hubbard, M.W. J.; Hetherington, O.; Hall, D. J.; Buggey, T. W.; Parsons, S.; Arnold, T.; Holland, A.; Pagani, C. and Sembay, S. (2023). The CCD instrument background of the SMILE SXI. Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1) pp. 1–10.

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Townsend-Rose, Charles; Buggey, Thomas; Ivory, James; Stefanov, Konstantin D.; Jones, Lawrence; Hetherington, Oliver and Holland, Andrew D. (2023). Characterization, quantum efficiency, and radiation hardness of a CMOS image sensor optimized for soft x-ray astronomy. In: Proc. SPIE 12678, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXIII, 126780I.

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Sembay, S.; Alme, A.L.; Agnolon, D.; Arnold, T.; Beardmore, A.; Belén Balado Margeli, A.; Bicknell, C.; Bouldin, C.; Branduardi-Raymont, G.; Breuer, J.P.; Buggey, T.; Butcher, G.; Canchal, R.; Carter, J.A.; Crawford, T.; Cheney, A.; Collado-Vega, Y.; Connor, H.; Crawford, T.; Eaton, N.; Feldman, C.; Forsyth, C.; Frantzen, T.; Galgóczi, G.; Garcia, J.; Genov, G.Y.; Gordillo, C.; Gröbelbauer, H-P.; Guedel, M.; Guo, Y.; Hailey, M.; Hall, D.; Hampson, R.; Hasiba, J.; Hetherington, O.; Holland, A.; Hsieh, S-Y; Hubbard, M.; Jeszenszky, H.; Jones, M.; Kennedy, T.; Koch-Mehrin, K.; Kögl, S.; Krucker, S.; Kuntz, K.D.; Lakin1, C.; Laky, G.; Lylund, O.; Martindale, A.; Miguel Mas Hesse, J.; Nakamura, R.; Oksavik, K.; Østgaard, N.; Ottacher, H.; Ottensamer, R.; Pagani, C.; Parsons, S.; Patel, P.; Pearson, J.; Peikert, G.; Porter, F.S.; Pouliantis, T.; Randall, G.; Qureshi, B.H; Raab, W.; Randall, G.; Read, A.M.; Roque, N.M.M.; Rostad, M.E.; Runciman, C.; Sachdev, S.; Samsonov, A.; Soman, M.; Sibeck, D.; Smit, S.; Søndergaard, J.; Speight, R.; Stavland, S.; Steller, M.; Sun, TianRan; Thornhill, J.; Thomas, W.; Ullaland, K.; Walsh, B.; Walton, D.; Wang, C. and Yang, S. (2023). The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on the SMILE Mission. Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1) pp. 1–10.

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Heymes, J.; Ivory, J.; Stefanov, K.; Buggey, T.; Hetherington, O.; Soman, M. and Holland, A. (2022). Characterisation of a soft X-ray optimised CMOS Image Sensor. Journal of Instrumentation, 17(05), article no. P05003.

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Buggey, Thomas; Soman, Matthew; Hall, David; Bush, Nathan; Parsons, Steve; Hetherington, Oliver and Holland, Andrew (2022). Developing the active trap model for charge-coupled device charge transfer optimization in large-scale space missions. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 8(2)

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Stefanov, Konstantin; Townsend-Rose, Charles; Buggey, Thomas; Ivory, James; Hetherington, Oliver; Holland, Andrew; Heymes, Julian; Pratlong, Jérôme; Tsiolis, Georgios; Morris, David; Minoglou, Kyriaki; Prod'homme, Thibaut and Soman, Matthew (2022). A CMOS image sensor for soft x-ray astronomy. In: Proceedings Volume 12191, X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy X (Holland, Andrew and Beletic, James eds.), Montreal, article no. 121910N.

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Parsons, S.; Buggey, T.; Holland, A.; Sembay, S.; Randall, G.; Hetherington, O.; Yeoman, D.; Hall, D.; Verhoeve, P. and Soman, M. (2021). Effects of temperature anneal cycling on a cryogenically proton irradiated CCD. Journal of Instrumentation, 16(11), article no. P11005.

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Eraerds, Tanja; Antonelli, Valeria; Davis, Chris; Hall, David J.; Hetherington, Oliver; Holland, Andrew; Hubbard, Michael; Meidinger, Norbert; Miller, Eric D.; Molendi, Silvano; Perinati, Emanuele; Pietschner, Daniel and Rau, Arne (2021). Enhanced simulations on the Athena/Wide Field Imager instrumental background. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 7(3), article no. 034001.

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Randall, George; Parsons, Steven; Hall, David; Buggey, Thomas; Hetherington, Oliver; Leese, Mark; Holland, Andrew; Yeoman, Dean and Soman, Matthew (2020). Processing x-ray data on board the SMILE SXI. In: X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IX, article no. 11454OT.

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Buggey, T. W.; Soman, M. R.; Hall, D. J.; Parsons, S.; Bush, N.; Hetherington, O.; Randall, G.; Leese, M. and Holland, A. D. (2020). Developing the active trap model for CCD charge transfer optimisation in large-scale space missions. In: X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IX, Proceedings of SPIE, SPIE, Bellingham, WA, article no. 114541F.

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Eraerds, Tanja; Antonelli, Valeria; Davis, Chris; Hall, David; Hetherington, Oliver; Holland, Andrew; Keelan, Jonathan; Meidinger, Norbert; Miller, Eric D.; Molendi, Silvano; Perinati, Emanuele; pietschner@mpe.mpg.de, Daniel; Rau, Arne; den Herder, Jan-Willem A.; Nakazawa, Kazuhiro and Nikzad, Shouleh (2020). Enhanced simulations on the ATHENA/WFI instrumental background. In: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, p. 49.

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Hall, David; Keelan, Jonathan; Davis, Chris; Hetherington, Oliver; Leese, Mark and Holland, Andrew (2018). Predicting the particle-induced background for future x-ray astronomy missions: the importance of experimental validation for GEANT4 simulations. In: Proceedings Volume 10709. High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VIII, p. 124.

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