SPI instrumental background characteristics
(2003) Astronomy & Astrophysics — Vol. 411, n° 1, p. L107-L112 (2003)
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- In its space environment the INTEGRAL observatory is subject to an intense irradiation by energetic cosmic-ray particles that leads, via nuclear interactions with the telescope and spacecraft materials, to an important background of false events. In this paper we present the characteristics of the instrumental background that is observed in the spectrometer SPI (SPectrometer of INTEGRAL). We explain the tuning that has been performed on the parameters of the anticoincidence system in order to optimise the telescope sensitivity over the full energy range. Temporal variations of the instrumental background are discussed and methods are proposed that allow for their modelling in first order.
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Jean, P., Vedrenne, G., Roques, J., Schonfelder, V., Teegarden, B., von Kienlin, A., Knodlseder, J., Wunderer, C., Skinner, G., Weidenspointner, G., Attie, D., Boggs, S., Caraveo, P., Cordier, B., Diehl, R., Gros, M., Leleux, P., Lichti, G., Kalemci, E., et al. (2003). SPI instrumental background characteristics. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 411(1), L107-L112. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20031156 (Original work published 2003)