Analysis of the Suzaku/XRS background

C. A. Kilbourne; K. R. Boyce; G. V. Brown; J. Cottam; E. Figueroa-Feliciano; R. Fujimoto; T. Furusho; Y. Ishisaki; R. L. Kelley; D. McCammon; K. Mitsuda; U. Morita; F. S. Porter; N. Ota; T. Saab; Y. Takei; M. Yamamoto

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2005.12.116

Analysis of the Suzaku/XRS background

C. A. Kilbourne^*, K. R. Boyce, G. V. Brown, J. Cottam, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, R. Fujimoto, T. Furusho, Y. Ishisaki, R. L. Kelley, D. McCammon, K. Mitsuda, U. Morita, F. S. Porter, N. Ota, T. Saab, Y. Takei, M. Yamamoto

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	620-622
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	559
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2005.12.116
State	Published - Apr 14 2006

Keywords

Cosmic rays
Electron loss
Microcalorimeter array
Thermal detectors
X-ray detectors

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Instrumentation

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Kilbourne, C. A., Boyce, K. R., Brown, G. V., Cottam, J., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Fujimoto, R., Furusho, T., Ishisaki, Y., Kelley, R. L., McCammon, D., Mitsuda, K., Morita, U., Porter, F. S., Ota, N., Saab, T., Takei, Y., & Yamamoto, M. (2006). Analysis of the Suzaku/XRS background. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 559(2), 620-622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2005.12.116

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