Estimate of the background for the x-ray microcalorimeter Spectrometer onboard of IXO

Emanuele Perinati; Teresa Mineo; Luca Colasanti; Simone Lotti; Claudio Macculi; Lorenzo Natalucci; Luigi Piro

doi:10.1117/12.856393

29 July 2010 Estimate of the background for the x-ray microcalorimeter Spectrometer onboard of IXO

Emanuele Perinati, Teresa Mineo, Luca Colasanti, Simone Lotti, Claudio Macculi, Lorenzo Natalucci, Luigi Piro

Proceedings Volume 7732, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 77323X (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856393
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We present a study of the background for the array of microcalorimeters onboard of the International X-ray Observatory space mission. We investigated through simulations the rates at the focal plane of soft and hard particles in L2 orbit. Assuming the presence of an anticoincidence instrument, we derived an estimate of the residual background. The preliminary results reported in this paper are based on a number of simplifications of the actual picture. Efforts to improve the model are on-going.

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Emanuele Perinati, Teresa Mineo, Luca Colasanti, Simone Lotti, Claudio Macculi, Lorenzo Natalucci, and Luigi Piro "Estimate of the background for the x-ray microcalorimeter Spectrometer onboard of IXO", Proc. SPIE 7732, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 77323X (29 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856393

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