no code implementations • 7 Jan 2021 • Simone Lotti, Matteo D'Andrea, Silvano Molendi, Claudio Macculi, Gabriele Minervini, Valentina Fioretti, Monica Laurenza, Christian Jacquey, Luigi Piro
We aim at characterizing the particle-induced background of the Athena microcalorimeter, in both its low (Soft Protons) and high (GCR) energy induced components, to assess the instrument capability to characterize background dominated sources such as the outskirts of clusters of galaxies.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
