A systematic analysis of the XMM-Newton background: IV. Origin of the unfocused and focused components
Abstract
We show the results obtained in the FP7 European program EXTraS and in the ESA R&D ATHENA activity AREMBES aimed at a deeper understanding of the XMM-Newton background to better design the ATHENA mission. Thanks to an analysis of the full EPIC archive coupled to the information obtained by the Radiation Monitor we show the cosmic ray origin of the unfocused particle background and its anti-correlation with the solar activity. We show the first results of the effort to obtain informations about the particle component of the soft proton focused background.
- Publication:
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Experimental Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- December 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s10686-017-9549-y
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1705.04174
- Bibcode:
- 2017ExA....44..321G
- Keywords:
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- X-ray astrophysics;
- Instrumentation:background;
- CCD;
- Particle background;
- Radiation environment;
- Soft proton background;
- Cosmic rays;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- To appear in Experimental Astronomy. Presented ad AHEAD Background Workshop, 28-30 November 2016, Rome, Italy