An XMM-Newton proton response matrix |
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Authors: | Teresa Mineo Simone Lotti Silvano Molendi Simona Ghizzardi |
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Affiliation: | 1.INAF-IASF Palermo,Palermo,Italy;2.INAF-IAPS,Roma,Italy;3.INAF-IASF Milano,Milano,Italy |
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Abstract: | Soft protons constitute an important source of background in focusing X-ray telescopes, as Chandra and XMM-Newton experience has shown. The optics in fact transmit them to the focal plane with efficiency similar to the X-ray photon one. This effect is a good opportunity to study the environment of the Earth magnetosphere crossed by the X-ray satellite orbits, provided that we can link the spectra detected by the instruments with the ones impacting on the optics. For X-ray photons this link has the form of the so-called response matrix that includes the optics effective area and the energy redistribution in the detectors. Here we present a first attempt to produce a proton response matrix exploiting ray-tracing and GEANT4 simulations with the final aim to be able to analyse XMM-Newton soft proton data and link them to the external environment. If the procedure is found to be reliable, it can be applied to any future X-ray missions to predict the soft particles spectra impacting on the focal plane instruments. |
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