A systematic analysis of the XMM-Newton background: I. Dataset and extraction procedures
Abstract
XMM-Newton is the direct precursor of the future ESA ATHENA mission. A study of its particle-induced background provides therefore significant insight for the ATHENA mission design. We make use of ∼12 years of data, products from the third XMM-Newton catalog as well as FP7 EXTraS project to avoid celestial sources contamination and to disentangle the different components of the XMM-Newton particle-induced background. Within the ESA R&D AREMBES collaboration, we built new analysis pipelines to study the different components of this background: this covers time behavior as well as spectral and spatial characteristics.
- Publication:
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Experimental Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- December 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s10686-017-9542-5
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1705.04171
- Bibcode:
- 2017ExA....44..297M
- Keywords:
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- Astroparticle physics;
- Instrumentation: detectors;
- Methods: data analysis;
- Methods: observational;
- Instrumentation: XMM-Newton;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- To appear in Experimental Astronomy, presented at AHEAD Background Workshop, 28-30 November 2016, Rome, Italy. 12 pages, 6 figures