A systematic analysis of the XMM-Newton background: I. Dataset and extraction procedures
Tiengo, Andrea; De Luca, Andrea; Marelli, Martino; Gastaldello, Fabio; Salvetti, David; Molendi, Silvano; Rossetti, Mariachiara; Ghizzardi, Simona; Moretti, Alberto
Italy
Abstract
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.