NDLI: Background simulations for the Large Area Detector onboard LOFT

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Author	Campana, Riccardo Feroci, Marco Monte, Ettore Mineo, Teresa Lund, Niels Fraser, George W.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	The Large Observatory For X-ray Timing (LOFT), currently in an assessment phase in the framework the ESA M3 Cosmic Vision programme, is an innovative medium-class mission specifically designed to answer fundamental questions about the behaviour of matter, in the very strong gravitational and magnetic fields around compact objects and in supranuclear density conditions. Having an effective area of ∼10 m2 at 8 keV, LOFT will be able to measure with high sensitivity very fast variability in the X-ray fluxes and spectra. A good knowledge of the in-orbit background environment is essential to assess the scientific performance of the mission and optimize the design of its main instrument, the Large Area Detector (LAD). In this paper the results of an extensive Geant-4 simulation of the instrumentwillbe discussed, showing the main contributions to the background and the design solutions for its reduction and control. Our results show that the current LOFT/LAD design is expected to meet its scientific requirement of a background rate equivalent to 10 mCrab in 2‒30 keV, achieving about 5 mCrab in the most important 2–10 keV energy band. Moreover, simulations show an anticipated modulation of the background rate as small as 10 % over the orbital timescale. The intrinsic photonic origin of the largest background component also allows for an efficient modelling, supported by an in-flight active monitoring, allowing to predict systematic residuals significantly better than the requirement of 1 %, and actually meeting the 0.25 % science goal.
Starting Page	451
Ending Page	477
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09226435
Journal	Experimental Astronomy
Volume Number	36
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15729508
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2013-06-08
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	X-ray astronomy Instrumental background Montecarlo simulations Astronomy, Observations and Techniques Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Astronomy and Astrophysics Space and Planetary Science

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