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- Title
A systematic analysis of the XMM-Newton background: I. Dataset and extraction procedures.
- Authors
Marelli, Martino; Salvetti, David; Gastaldello, Fabio; Ghizzardi, Simona; Molendi, Silvano; Luca, Andrea; Moretti, Alberto; Rossetti, Mariachiara; Tiengo, Andrea
- 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.
- Subjects
XMM-Newton Observatory (Artificial satellite); HIGH-energy cosmic ray interactions; ASTRONOMICAL observations; CCD cameras; MAGNETOSPHERE; X-ray astronomy
- Publication
Experimental Astronomy, 2017, Vol 44, Issue 3, p297
- ISSN
0922-6435
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10686-017-9542-5