A systematic analysis of the XMM-Newton background: I. Dataset and extraction procedures

XMM-Newton is the direct precursor of the future ESA ATHENA mission. A study of its particle-induced background provides therefore significant insight for the ATHENA mission design. We make use of ∼12 years of data, products from the third XMM-Newton catalog as well as FP7 EXTraS project to avoid celestial sources contamination and to disentangle the different components of the XMM-Newton particle-induced background. Within the ESA R&D AREMBES collaboration, we built new analysis pipelines to study the different components of this background: this covers time behavior as well as spectral and spatial characteristics.

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44

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3

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297

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/27100

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10686-017-9542-5

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0922-6435

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A systematic analysis of the XMM-Newton background: I. Dataset and extraction procedures

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