Title of article
Analysis of the Suzaku/XRS background
Author/Authors
Kilbourne، نويسنده , , C.A. and Boyce، نويسنده , , K.R. and Brown، نويسنده , , G.V. and Cottam، نويسنده , , J. and Figueroa-Feliciano، نويسنده , , E. and Fujimoto، نويسنده , , R. and Furusho، نويسنده , , T. and Ishisaki، نويسنده , , Y. and Kelley، نويسنده , , R.L and McCammon، نويسنده , , D. and Mitsuda، نويسنده , , K. and Morita، نويسنده , , U. and Porter، نويسنده , , F.S. and Ota، نويسنده , , N. and Saab، نويسنده , , T. and Takei، نويسنده , , Y. and Yamamoto، نويسنده , , M.، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
Pages
3
From page
620
To page
622
Abstract
Background counts on the XRS calorimeter spectrometer of the Suzaku Observatory (formerly Astro-E2) have several sources, including primary cosmic rays and secondary particles interacting with the pixels and with the silicon structure of the array. Using ground data, we identified the types of correlations between events on different pixels, and between pixel pulses and the signal from the anti-coincidence detector behind the calorimeter. In this paper, we present details of the ground background events and the rejection criteria required to remove them while minimizing deadtime. We also present the in-orbit background measured during the time that XRS was functioning in orbit.
Keywords
Microcalorimeter array , Cosmic rays , Thermal detectors , X-ray detectors , Electron loss
Journal title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
Serial Year
2006
Journal title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
Record number
2200149
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