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Preprint 20/11

MonteCarlo simulations of the Suzaku-XRS residual background spectrum

E. Perinati (1), C. A. Kilbourne (2) , L. Colasanti (3), S. Lotti (3), C. Macculi (3), T. Mineo (4), L. Piro (3), K. Mitsuda (5), A. Bonardi (1) and A. Santangelo (1)

(1) IAAT-University of Tübingen, Germany
(2) NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center,United States
(3) INAF- Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Roma, Italy
(4) INAF- Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo, Italy
(5) JAXA-Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan

To be published in: Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Abstract. Cryogenic micro-calorimeters are suitable to detect small amounts of energy deposited by electromagnetic and nuclear interactions, which makes them attractive in a variety of applications on ground and in space. To date, the only X-ray micro-calorimeter that operated in orbit is the X-Ray Spectrometer (XRS) on-board of the japanese Suzaku satellite. We discuss the analysis of the components of its residual background spectrum with the support of MonteCarlo simulations.
 
Key words: X-ray micro-calorimeters, particle background, data analysis, numerical computation

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